Orlando International Airport - Tuesday, 11:45.  I've still got about two and one half hours before meeting up with my group here in Orlando.  It is so absolutely freeing to be sitting in an airport without having to keep up with students.  I've taken students to Europe each summer for the past eight years or so.  I think I'm going to start alternating years and take students one summer and go alone the next summer.  This is NICE!  I'm taking off for 10 days of quilting and sewing in Ireland.  I planned this trip over a year ago when it seemed husband was recuperating well.  But the year brought many set backs and I wasn't sure up until the very last minute that I was going to be able to go.

My DH (dear hubby) is in good hands at home for the next little bit.  I think we both need a break from the intensity of the last three years of cancer stuff.  He's been in a battle for his life for so long that now it is hard for him to realize that the time has come to readjust to what life is now going to be.  Hearing loss, feeding tube, decreased vision, etc. -- but he's still here and we are hoping for a positive report when the next CT scan comes up in July.   We had quite a scare a couple of weeks ago with a four day hospitalization -- but it was merely (get that, merely) an infection in the bone near his original cancer site.  They treated him with some mega-potent IV antibiotics and he is SO MUCH better.  He's now on a six month course of antibiotics to make sure they have really knocked this out.  The doc said this was not unusual.  (Thanks for tell us that ahead of time!)  I think that infection must have been brewing in that bone for the last several months pulling him down.  They kept treating him for a mere ear infection  ten days of antibiotics here and ten days there-- and apparently weren't hitting the deeper infection.  He's like a new man.  He's even cracked a joke or two and I can see my old DH in there.

During the past year, I've been so protective of him, that I need to get out of the picture for a week or so and let him begin to readjust without me enabling him.  He has a great CNA (Chrys) with him during the day and I knew things were going to be alright when I found out he asked her if she could drive a straight gear.  He's planning on having her chauffeur him all around in his truck I'm sure.  He also asked me to leave the car so he could make it his "project."  That means he's going to try to clean it up.  He still doesn't get it -- that I think a car is a "tool" not a showpiece!  Chrys' boyfriend is a golfer so DH has pulled out a magazine article about his son to show her.    He still only "works" about 20 minutes before taking a 2 hour nap -- but he has come such a very long way!  Thanks for friends who have prayed!

I've told DH in jest, that if he dies before me -- there will be no funeral for a WEEK!  They have had him at death's door so often -- that I need a week just to make sure he's not going to WAKE UP!  He made a face at me that was clearly recognizable from his pre-cancer days -- so yep, maybe he's on his way back.

Don't know about Wi-fi access where I'm going, but I'll try to post pics on the blog so you can come along if you like!!!!