Good News and a Road Trip!

Jim’s Oncology/Infusion went well. Kidney function has improved, the AFib episodes have decreased in number and intensity so he MAY not need the heart ablation surgery, and the problems with the stainless kidney stent have decreased considerably so he may not need the kidney stent replaced for several more months. Esham (his oncologist) suspects that these problems stemmed from dealing with Covid. Next appointment/infusion is July 8th. Then August 18th when he will have CT Scans and MRIs along with the infusion. We always look forward to that because every time but one there was improvement!

We have been concentrating on house and garden projects and waiting for some nice weather to head out in the van. Last week we finally did more than an overnight.

We spent the first night at our daughter's. The weather was good enough to have dinner outside! It had been a LONG time since we had seen them in person. We spent the night in the van and headed out early to our next stop to visit my sister in Eugene.

The next morning we headed west. We stopped to visit some cruising friends - Jon and Nancy (Sea Dream) and had a nice visit. They have a great house/property just northwest of Eugene. They just sold their boat, also. It was great to see them.

From there we headed to Florence on the Oregon coast and we snagged a great campsite at Sutton Campground. The weather was cooperating so we did a little hiking. The rhododendrons were blooming EVERYWHERE!

The next day we had reserved a condo in Newport so we headed up the coast, had a walk and lunch at the Roque Brewing Company Restaurant, and then checked into the condo. The weather slowly got worse - we woke up to a quite a squall, but fun to watch from the comfort of our room. The weather improved by late morning so we packed up and headed up to South Bend, WA where we had dinner and spent the night at the Willapa Brewing Company Restaurant (Really good pizza and beer) - a Harvest Host location. We headed home from there. It felt really good to get away, but it was also good to get home:)

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