It's April...
The mushrooms are beginning...red-buds are bloomed by the road-side...daffodils are swaying in the warmer Spring air...and Ethel has left the building!!!
even managed a short nap together!
Then Surgery Day arrived.
He was pretty chill about it.
...of course, he would be sleeping through the whole business...
The rest of us?
Yeah...not so chill.
Terrified, actually.
Eric and Melissa drove in from Ohio.
May and Amy from Plainfield.
Robert and Jonathan from Indianapolis.
And we waited.
The operation seemed to last forever.
...it was hours...
But the surgeon seemed very happy...and it was non-complicated and successful!!!
ETHEL has left the building.
He thinks all of her!
Better still...John was able to leave the hospital, Friday, and is doing very well!
We are thankful...and he knows how much he is loved!
Monday, they will do a scan to make sure they removed all the tumor...also find out if it was benign or malignant.
We are thankful.
But, as in life, there is ALWAYS something~
When they did the PET scan pre-surgery...they found the lung cancer has returned.
Now that we've survived the brain stuff...well they're going to meet next week and discuss what's next.
~sigh!
...before the surgery John set us up on a Mission Impossible Date when it releases in May!!!!
My eBay mushroom guy was able to send morels early...and sent a pound of grays...my favorite.
Finished the last of them yesterday with rib-eye steak...which was amazing!
And despite the return of the cancer we are staying pretty positive about things.
Watch Cory Booker give his marathon 25 hour speech!!!
Reminding us to get in Good Trouble.
And the leopards have been feasting...
Mostly on MAGA faces...who have entered the Find Out portion of their misguided voting.
Tariffs are on...then they are off again...the stock-market has been a wild ride...trillions have been lost...in short...
It's a shit-show.
But, seriously, didn't most of us know it was going to be????
Love,
Carla, John, Gadget and Tux
