Sunday of the Memorial Day weekend. I have run myself ragged yet again. Spent yesterday enjoying myself and doing all sorts of stuff. I went shooting for the first time in months. I have a Medi-port on my right shoulder that is used for the intravenous injections. It is a port inserted under my skin connected directly into a vein in my neck. I am reluctant to put a rifle near the port and fire it lest I disrupt the device and cause a problem that would have no simple resolution. So I popped off with a .22 handgun. I shot an okay pattern, but I need to work a lot more on it.

After shooting I went to several hardware stores and helped my neighbor put in a concrete pier for his new pergola. When I got home from the hardware stores the radiator on my mini-van let go in the driveway. Gonna be fun to fix. During the afternoon I grilled some hot dogs then pecan smoked some chicken and steaks. Did a few other things then hosted a nice dinner fro my nephew. We visited until 11:30 last night. I was a little tired so I did not post. This morning I got up and cut down this 20 foot tall bush that had to come out to be replaced by a red oak. Then I helped my neighbor finish assembling his pergola. Then I had to collapse into a three hour nap.

I mention all this activity detail because it has become annoyingly obvious to me that the cancer has limited my activities to a bare minimum. What I did yesterday should have been an afternoon, not a whole day. But with the cancer and chemo I have so little energy that naps are a large part of my schedule. Yeah, I'm going on sixty but that doesn't mean I have to turn lazy. I get annoyed when I realize how much I have to cut back on what I really enjoy doing because of the cancer. Three day weekends should be a flurry of activity not a few activities mixed between naps and rest breaks. I may get used to this regimen and maybe not, but only for as long as I absolutely have to. I can see where another set of chemo is going to be a tough challenge considering that it will likely be more devastating on my activity level. Some arrangements will have to be made here I guess.

Other than that I am content. My wife is so very supporting of my situation, I have a good shot at recovering my health and I have a good mental attitude. That is all I can ask for right now. I need to learn to take things a little more day by day and plan for one day when I will get back to my usual circumstance.

Tomorrow take some time to remember our veterans and those who didn't make it home from the wars and battles that have been fought to keep this nation free. Our country and political system ain't perfect but it beats any of the other options anywhere else on the planet. The people we honor tomorrow made extreme sacrifices for the rest of us. Because of them we have our country and our freedoms.