Catching Up

Wednesday February 1 -Friday February 3, 2012

 

I’m so far behind on this blog but I want a record
so I’m going to try to quickly catch up to the present.

 

This first week of February has been a difficult one
with the news of David’s cancer.  
Wednesday February 1st  was the day
he got the full diagnosis and other than that
and a trip to the nearby Whole Foods Market,
we were doing research on the disease
and the test results and the cost of the medication.

Thursday we began serious work looking
into finding some sort of financial aid for the $7000
a month cost of the drugs he needs.

We also have a couple problems with our
car, the clutch master cylinder and a return fuel hose.
So we spent time on the phone and on line trying
to find someone other than a dealer who
could get the parts and install them.
Found a place to do the cylinder but not the
gas line.   No one can figure out what the
part number is.

When it rains it pours.

 

Friday the 3rd,  our friends Gin & Syl pulled in to
a site just down from us.
We were really glad to see them and make
some plans for some great times while they are here.

We spent time, as we have daily over the last several weeks,
reading The China Study aloud
and have changed our diet completely as a result
of  Campbell’s medical research. 
We both worked for over 25 years in Medical Research
and know what sneaky things can be done with Statistics
and how it’s done.

David was a statistician in medical research. 
We also know good research when we see it.
I worked on the data for the Dr. Barry Marshall
who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2005.
We know drug company motivated research when we see that. 
And we  believe Campbell is both an excellent researcher
and an honest one.

 

Nearly all of the criticisms I can find of his work are
either by those who have not actually read the
entire book or the research publications from which it was written.
Or they come from sources which have an agenda of their own
and sponsorship by groups which could potentially
lose revenue if we all changed our diets as he suggests.

 

But some the most fun we had this week
was watching the Blue Boy Parade.
Unfortunately we didn’t get a picture of our neighbor
who started this off.  We didn’t realize it would
become an EVENT.

The neighbor made 4 trips at a minimum on this scooter
pulling his Blue Boy.   After the fact, we got a picture
of him taking his trash on it.
He seems to use this scooter rather than walk anywhere,
even to the bathhouse.   Except when he’s driving
his red thunderbird convertible.   :-)

Sorry you have to imagine the blue boy on
the back of this.  It really was a RIOT as he went
back and forth and back and forth and…….

Here’s the rest of the parade.   Each of these
folks made at least 2 and usually 3 trips.

 

 

We don’t have a blue boy and have no intention
of getting one even though we will now be staying
in one place much longer than ever before. 
We have seen how long it took these folks
to make their numerous trips, it took them 2 or 3 per tank.
In much less time we unhooked, unleveled,
dumped, returned and rehooked.



Saturday the 4th we went on a kayak paddle with our friends.
It was great.  I’ll post about that next.