Tom is seeming to feel stronger these days - walking further and faster, helping more with housework and we even cleaned the garage today. He usually makes breakfast, sometimes lunch and always washes the dishes and does most of of laundry. It makes him feel good to accomplish things. He continues reading books, scriptures and doing his daily exercises as well as doing our family business. He is a pretty busy guy and he really hates not being busy. He had his monthly blood work done on Monday and his numbers were very good. We pray that things will keep moving in this positive direction. We realize that there is no cure at the moment for this disease but there are treatments and when one treatment starts to fail you direct your attention to another. Our hope is that the hormone treatments he is on now will be beneficial for a number of years and that new and even better treatments are being developed in the meantime.
Friends continue to being meals and send messages. When we made a run to return dishes to people who had kindly brought us meals, Sandra Barroby insisted on making arrangements to bring us yet another dinner on Saturday. We cannot seem to stop her. On our way home that day we stopped by the Temple to see how the new landscaping and fence were coming along and while there we ran into Cheng-Hao Wang and his daughter Michelle and they ended up bringing us some lovely food on Sunday. We also visited with the Wanners at the Temple grounds too. We spend time regularly responding to messages and emails and visiting on the phone with friends and family.
Our new BBQ was our project last week and we managed to get the parts around to the back deck and complete the assembly on our own. I don’t recall putting a BBQ together in the past but maybe Tom did that on his own because this was certainly my first involvement in the process. We have used the BBQ a couple of times already and Tom insists on having it completely scrubbed and clean after each use. We will see if that continues throughout the rest of the summer. I have never really been involved in cleaning the BBQs either. Tom has taken care of that too.
We had our Stake Conference this past week so we watched our meetings Saturday evening and Sunday morning via zoom. The Temple President and Matron spoke on Saturday evening along with the Stake Presidency. Unfortunately Paul froze as he was nearing the end of his talk. It was an excellent talk too and we felt badly. The Sunday morning session had the Mission President and his wife speaking, the Stake President and numerous primary children and young men and young women. They had prerecorded the youth and primary children. It was a different conference but very nice. We also had an interlude musical number at each session and the Tabernacle Choir singing the hymns. We have become very adept at zoom meetings. I have been asked to teach Relief Society this month via zoom of course.
The weather has not been too bad and our walks have been quite pleasant other than the fact that I tripped on a curb yesterday and now have a banged up nose and scraped hands. I am just grateful it wasn’t Tom as his bones are compromised due to the cancer. My bones are also a little compromised with osteoporosis. We just need to stay on our feet. The joys of aging.
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