I AM STILL HERE

I was surprised to see how long it has been since I last posted to this blog. My only excuse is that both of us have been sick. You really don't want all the details, so I will just say that Felix got a touch of the flu and had 5 days of the Hershey Squirts. We spent 5 hours on 10 January in the Emergency Room at a Hospital in St. Louis getting rehydration and medication for Felix. I was very patient, I sat there and shivered the whole time. Boy, they keep those Emergency Rooms cold.

Just as I predicted, as soon as he got well, I got sick. If there is one thing a colostomy patient does not want to go through is diarrhea. I had a very bad experience with it in 2002 when I was still doing the chemotherapy and it quickly turned into a major case of dehydration. I spent 3 days in the hospital getting my electrolytes back in order. The skin on the bottoms of my feet was peeling off in 1/8th inch thick pieces. I was in bad shape. The only thing I could drink was Gatorade. Even Gatorade popsicles. Didn't taste that bad.

Both of us are better now; but Felix was on vacation for two weeks and we had many plans that we had to cancel. Many restaurants had to go it alone, without us. You should know that we both like to eat. We cancelled trips to Southern Illinois and Northern Illinois for suppers and our favorite German Restaurant in Hermann, Missouri for lunch. Damn. The only real treat we had was on the day I had my annual cancer CT checkup. After getting out of the Radiology Department we made our way to the "Hill" district of St. Louis for some authentic Italian food.

We went to Amighetti's Italian Deli at the corner of Marconi and Wilson on the Hill. I wasn't even sure they would be open at 9:30 AM; but thank God, they were. As far as I am concerned, there is no better Italian Deli than Amighetti's. They make the best Italian soups in the city of St. Louis. I had a cup of Beef Barley soup and a full foot-long Amighetti's Special sub. Felix had a 6" Special sub and a 6" Taste of Italy sub. We had 2 cans of Coke each. Now, that was some breakfast.

After that, we looked up a camera store and I purchased some additional gear for my Canon 20D digital camera. Unfortunately, Quantaray doesn't make a flash handle for the digital market; but I didn't know that at the time I made the purchase of flash equipment. The next day, they were very agreeable to accepting it back with appropriate adjustment for my credit card. Now, I am going to have to, either modify an analog handle or come up with some other arrangement to hold the flash off camera. Trust me, I will figure out something that works.

OK, that is where I have been for two weeks. I apologize to my readers for my absence; but not only did I not have anything new to talk about, I simply didn't feel like talking at all. Like The Terminator, I am baaack.