On Our Own Again

On Saturday Gita loaded her cats into her car and headed back to Georgia. Although it leaves us feeling bereft, it's time for her to get back to her own house and her own life. Her help was an absolute godsend these past few months!

Circe checks out a rest stop on the way to Georgia

Gita's departure leaves us with just two cats again rather than four. The two pairs of cats never did fully accept each other, and so now Artemis is missing Gita but not her cats. Hekla has already started staring at me in the mornings again, waiting for me to feed her.

To cheer ourselves up, Anand and I went out to lunch at True Food Kitchen, a restaurant that specializes in healthy food that I had noticed in a local magazine. These days I have to be very careful about what I eat, as does Anand (though for different reasons), so we haven't been able to eat out much. But Anand and I were both able to find something appealing to order at True Food Kitchen and enjoyed our meal very much. This was another welcome sign of life returning to something closer to normal!

Meanwhile, June is here, and I have no medical appointments on my calendar this month. I'm now going six weeks between infusions, and since the last one was late in May, the next one won't be until July. My next scan will also be in late July or early August. It feels very strange—but also strange that it feels strange—to be going so long between appointments!