Darn Sudaks...

They brought this cold into our house :-(

I have been sick the past week and trying to avoid Nana and Pop, and I have been doing a good job too. Basically, I've just been sleeping after I get home from work - that's how lousy I feel.

But alas, its all for naught! Nana is now sick with an unending runny nose. I'm hoping with enough OJ and meds that we can knock it right out of her.

In Pop news, Vic doesn't have to see the doctor again for another month. After the month, he'll get tested, then we'll wait some more for the results, then we'll have some answers and maybe an interesting update.


Well that's all for now. I'll be back on Monday with another update (I'm going to UConn and Cape Cod this weekend for some irresponsible fun).

I know, I know

It's been a very long time since I've posted and part of the reason is that I've been away on vacation and the other part is that nothing is happening here.

Right now we're waiting for Pop's doctor's appointment on Wednesday so the doctor can set up another appointment for him to get tested to see if the chemo did its job.

So we're doing a lot of waiting.

More to come soon.

Good news everyone!

Wednesday was Pop's LAST TREATMENT OF CHEMO!

So this means that next week he's going back to get a CAT and PET scans, which will assess how effective the treatments were. So until then we're all holding our breath and hoping they worked (the next step would be radiation if it didn't).

In other exciting news, I will be going on a road trip to Kentucky today and coming back late Sunday night, so I'll be offline for that time.

Also Friday is Caroline's birthday and she and the family are coming over for dinner with Nana and Pop tomorrow night. Happy Birthday!!

That's all for now. :-)

Monday, Monday

And that pretty much means the same old, same old. Nana and I went shopping yesterday and got some nice towels and clothes respectively. Pop stayed home and talked with one of his old buddies. On Saturday, Nana and I took a trip to the miniature store, and when we left the house Pop was in his bed with the covers on. This of course is ridiculous considering how FREAKIN' hot and muggy the weather has been lately.

Besides his ludicrous cold-ness, Pop is doing okay. He has another doctors appointment tomorrow and is scheduled for another dose of chemo. Supposedly, he and Nana were told that he would receive six treatments of chemo. Tomorrow is that sixth treatment. So let's cross our fingers, kiss that rabbit's foot, get on our knees, and do whatever else it takes for a spot of good luck.

Sleepy

That's what Pop's been this past week or so. He gets up only to eat and use the bathroom and such and then goes straight back to bed. So basically there's nothing interesting going on here because Pop Van Winkle hasn't been up long enough to do anything.

Hopefully, some other news will come about soon. Until then I will keep wishing this darn humidity away...

Going off for a weekend adventure

so I won't be able to keep you all up to date with what's happening here on Flax Rd. In fact, I'll actually be missing the shindig of the year because tomorrow is the POLITI FAMILY REUNION 2009!!!! Hosted by the adorable Meta Politi and catered by the entire Politi clan. Nana hasn't told Pop yet, and she doesn't plan to until my mom (genius party planner Amy) gets here tomorrow to set up. Silly Nan.

Other than the party things are going pretty smooth here, nothing new to report. Pop has been sleeping an unusual amount of time, so Nana is thinking of reporting this to the doctor because it's in the list of side effects of the chemo that you should call your doctor about. She hasn't actually called yet, so I have to make sure she doesn't forget or just shrug it off.

Well that's all I have for now, so I'll leave you all with this other gem I found in Pop's emails:
In 1989 my XYL, Meta and I planned a trip to to the annual Paris Air Show and a vist to several of their air museums plus a side trip to visit the Normandy beaches. At that time the French government required that you must apply for a visa which we promptly did to the French Embassy in Washington. In a weeks time we received the visa form and one of the questions on the form was as follows." Have you at any time ever entered France or any French territory illegally". I could not resist answering this question truthfully.

My answer was as follows: "Yes, on November 8, 1942, I illegally entered the French territory of Algeria as a member of the U.S. Army 26th infantry Regimental Combat Team at Les Andalouses, Algeria sans a Passport or Visa. Also on March 15, 1943 I entered the French Territory of Tunisia sans passport or visa. On June 6, 1944, I entered The Republic of France again illegally via the Beach code named "Utah" with the 8th Infantry Regimental Combat team near Ste Marie du Mont, Normandy France.


In a weeks time the Visa duly arrived with no comments but attached to it was a nice short handwritten note, probably from some secretary of the embassy. The note read " Dear Mr and Mrs. Politi thank you and your Country for what you did to free my Country. Enjoy your trip to France and God Bless you both."


While we were visiting Normandy I showed it to our young French tour guide and he asked me if he could keep it to show his fellow guides. I agreed but now wish I kept a copy of it as I have long forgotten the young ladies name.


73 de Vic, W1NU

Found some interesting stuff

while sifting through Pop's clogged up email. I finally sorted everything out and now it's possible to tell when he gets new messages. My mission for tomorrow night is to respond to all your wonderful well-wishes that have gone unanswered. Thank you all for reading this and keeping Vic in your thoughts.

In addition to all that I found this little piece of Vic history, its a poem he wrote in January 2006 titled "Ode To 19 Set User"

Here I sit broken hearted

On the 19 set net that ORP started

All went well until round two

Because at dinner Dave had a few

Davy,Davy, how could you forget

The only Op with a 19 set

Outstations, which were just a few

Were just as bad as they missed it too

It must be the chirp on my old Mark II

That made all forget 83 year old NU

73 de W1NU