Saturday, May 1, 2010

May Day

Sorry I haven't written in a while. On Wednesday, April 7th we left for Italy. We were scheduled to return on Saturday, April 17th, but were delayed a week due to the volcanic ash and flights being cancelled across Europe. I know, I know...no one feels sorry that we got "stuck" in Florence, Italy for an extra week. However, it was a bit unsettling when our first flight got cancelled and then our second flight got cancelled and then we weren't sure if the hotel could accommodate us. On Monday, 4/19, when we knew we were now delayed until 4/24 and we confirmed we had a room at the hotel, we could finally relax and enjoy our extra vacation time. Of course, each day we wondered when flights would resume and were not totally relieved until that happened. And then, of course, we began to worry about the volcano erupting again.

By Wednesday, international flights were getting back to normal and by Thursday domestic flights were going again (we were flying from Florence to Frankfurt to Boston). By Thursday afternoon when Florence began operating all flights we were feeling a bit more reassured that we might actually be able to leave on Saturday.

We tried not to think about the extra week of vacation time this was eating up or the extra, unplanned expenses associated with another week in Italy. Because, all-in-all, when looking back...we were fine. The family was together, we had a place to stay, and we had credit cards and ATM cards to cover expenses. We were not living in airports and there was not some major life events that required us to be back in the states.

Anyhow, all of this is to explain why I have not been good about updating this blog! At some point I plan to summarize our trip to Italy (with pictures and all), but not today.

And for those of you who are wondering, yes, the delay in our return flight did mean that Ed missed his chemo treatment that was scheduled for 4/20. My Mom called his doc, though, and got him rescheduled to Monday, 4/26. So no ill effects from that. Back into a new schedule and according to Dr B, things still look good. Ed is having a few more side effects though after this treatment. A bit more queasy, not feeling "quite right"...but I attribute that to the fact that they reduced his dosage before our trip and he went 3 weeks without treatment so his body is reacting to the increase in chemicals this week. Hopefully by next week he's feeling more "normal".

So, all-in-all, we're doing good and I hope to share pics and story from our trip in the near future!

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