Things continue to develop slowly but in the right direction. I am no longer taking pain pills or freezing my mouth withl liidocaine to be able to eat. Both holes I had in my mouth are healed and my tongue is less sensitive to acids and spices.Some taste has returned, I can eat a wider range of foods some of which actually taste good.
Fitness wise I have a ways to go, but I have walked around the Rose Bowl (3 miles) a few times, did part of Zumba and dance classes. I feel tired but a generally ‘good’ tired.
One great indicator that things are getting better is that Susan & I have scheduled our first get away. She and I have both dreamed of getting away’ and as I start to have some energy and increase range in my diet we thought about where to go. We thought about San Diego or San Francisco but both places would call for an activist approach and focus on food. Since my energy is problematic and I still am not very interested in food we decided on another way entirely. We are going to the desert, to Anzo Borrego for three nights. There is an interesting motel we saw when we visited the town a few years back, this motel besides having rooms has Airstream Trailers for rent. This looks like a great solution. We can cook for ourselves if we want, go out hiking and 4 wheeling and come back for a nap whenever we want.
We stop in Old Town Temecula, charming place. Susan visits a knitting shop there she remembered from an earlier trip, this shop actually had wool from local sheep with a picture of each sheep the batch of wool came from.
At our campground in Borrego Springs we rented an Airstream Trailer. So we have our own space and can cook food if we want.
We go on two ‘real’ hikes, one to a palm canyon oasis and another explore wind caves. Both are uphill slogs for me. I pace myself but this is a real trail and I am sweating from the effort. It takes me four days to recover from these two hikes but it is a good tired.
Things are getting better. Not a two steps forward one back, more like the occasional half step forward. Random, slow but always going in the right direction.
A friend of mine from college days sent me a CD of Richie Havens, a different mix of his music and I love it. The theme song for me right now is the wonderful sound of Richie Havens singing Here Comes The Sun. Its not bright and sunny yt but I see the sun peeking out on the horizon, and I say "Its al right".
