July 24, 2011 11:05 PM

Lunch with the other "parents"!

We went out to lunch today with the people who had our dog for his last two and a half years. They are nice people and confirmed agian that we made the right choice as to who should take care of him in his final years. Of course we talked about his life, his foibles, and his love. Without the latter, he would have been a dickens of a dog to contend with because he got into and chewed everything from the day he was born until the day he died. But he overcame all of that with his love and will always be fondly remembered.

After the Norway bombing this week, I e-mailed the woman who lives there and was a bone marrow donor and came here as part of my "coming out" party in February 2010 for my 1 year anniversary. Though her family does not live in Oslo, you never know if thety could have traveled to the city for the day. Fortunately, everyone is OK. It's a small world(a Disney World favorite ride!). To think that I would actually know somebody in Norway to be concerned about!
None of that would have happened without this blog. Again, another blessing from this disease.

This week, it's more photophoresis and round one of getting my new scleral lenses! That begins on Tuesday. I'm looking forward to it because it gets my vision back to 20/20 and, hopefully, diminishes my need for so many eyedrops and solutions during the day. But, there is no such thing as a free lunch. The care and feeding of these special lenses are quite involved in an effort to keep the disinfected and to keep my eyes from getting infected. However, if others can do it, there should be no reason why I cannot.

The secret is to take it one day at a time...

Bob