Longview Texas - Daisy

We made it to Texas! Right back where we started from two years ago!! We are staying at Fernbrook RV Park which is a nice park about 20 minutes from Daisy (Jerry's cousin). She was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer last year. She's continued to work through the surgery, chemo and radiation. She's so strong! We visited with her tonight and found out her one cat lost his leg this past March due to cancer! Both her and her cat were undergoing cancer treatment at the same time. Crazy. She's going to get me into her clinic tomorrow and do an EKG and hopefully get me seen by her ARNP so I can get some answers.... Hopefully good answers. Not sure what the rest of our visit will look like but at least we didn't have any plans set in stone. And maybe we'll get to do some fun stuff here too.

Day 2&3: EKG is normal, labs, CT of the chest and ultrasound of the abdomen has been ordered to be done next week (unfortunately I couldn't get it any earlier). Jerry was able to get into the knee doctor and had his first hyaluronic acid injection. Everyone has been so nice and accommodating! I'm so grateful for Daisy's help. Tomorrow we will go have pizza and watch the Tyson vs Paul fight on TV at her place. I think we will be staying here another week until I get all my results. My back feels a bit better today. I sure have been scared and anxious about this all and especially since we are in a motorhome and not near our doctor. It's made me think a lot about getting a permanent home and also about being near one of the boys at least so we have a little support when needed. You think about things but you don't understand the emotions and the logistics of it all until it actually happens. And... If we were already on Medicare I think this would also be easier. We are paying out of pocket for all this stuff here so that we can get a discounted price.

Week 2 - all my tests are now complete. The CT chest looks fine and I'm just waiting on ultrasound results. I'm beginning to think I really need an EGD to diagnose this. It's probably just gastritis but the fact that I feel crappy a month later makes me wonder...We watched the fight at Daisy's. Actually it was 4 flights. I've never watched boxing before but I really enjoyed it! We also had lunch with her entire family at a Mexican place (Papacita's - not the greatest) for a grandsons birthday and we had a game night with her and Caitlin playing catch phrase which was really fun. We drove the Old Stagecoach Rd in Marshall which is supposed to be haunted. It was a pretty cool road but during the day it didn't feel spooky at all. Marshall has a nice downtown area and beautiful old courthouse. I had an excellent chai latte at Joe Pine coffee shop. We drove to Karnack where Jerry lived for 9 months as a child and took a 15 minute drive through Caddo State Park which looked cool. We got a staple in a tire and they can't repair it. That's the second tire this year so now we're looking at tires. Low temps are in the 40's and highs have been 65-75. I think we're both ready to move on.

3 weeks were spent in Longview. I ended up having a 3rd CT scan. I was scared to death I had pancreatic cancer. I was an emotional wreck planning the end of My life. It was awful. All that was found was a dilated common bile duct. I have set up an appt with a GI doc in Tucson after the 1st of the year and changing our health insurance so that it may not cost as much.

We spent Thanksgiving at Carrie and Trent's (Daisy's rich daughter) which I didn't really enjoy as we waited an hour and a half to eat and there were so many people there and no one really talked to me even though I tried. The food was meh. I offered to bring something and Daisy told me to bring a pie. She says there would be lots of pies and to bring something different like coconut cream. She told me the bakery to go to. I went and got the coconut cream. It was not good. And then I was so disappointed because nobody brought apple or pumpkin pie. I was really looking forward to that. I guess in Texas they do sweet potato pie and buttermilk pie. I tried both. Yuk! I felt very anxious. I also had the anxiety from not knowing what was going on with me too. Ughhhh. We did enjoy our time with Daisy though. We played Catch Phrase with her and Caitlin several times, watched the Mike Tyson fight which I actually really liked, watched Landman several weeks with her and many Christmas movies as it's her favorite time of year.Läs mer