Today my family went to the aquarium. All twelve of us walked in together and due to the crowds we all got seperated. My parents, Jeff and I found each other as we all escaped outside.
We braved the crowds to see the jellyfish which we amazing.
Here Jeff and I are in the jellyfish exhibit with a photo bomb from my dad.
Jeff, me and the sloths took a shuttlebus to Monterey. Sven and Sergio had never been on a bus before so they were excited.
We took a walk to the beach.
And most importantly saw my family. I didn’t get photos of everyone. But this is just the first night.
I hope everyone is having a good Christmas Eve. We want to wish everyone a a Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah.
Thank you all for your support and love! It means the world to us!!
Today we got ready for our trip and packed. Sven and Sergio assumed they were gong in my backpack.
When I told them they were too big, Sergio tried to convince me he could fit in a makeup case.
I finally coaxed them into my suitcase with nuts and granola bars.
We are meeting up with my family in Monterey, CA. Then on Dec 30 I go back to UCSF for a “procedure” to have the stent in my bladder removed.
Today we did our normal weekend walk along the water. Since we do this walk a lit I’m able to chart my recovery progress. I’m still really slow but took less breaks and wasn’t as fatigued after.
Next stop was Coffee Bean and Tea. It’s weird Google says there are 16 Starbucks in Panama and nine Coffee Bean and Tea leaf stores
Even though there are more Stsrbucks they are in weird locations, so we usually end up at Coffee Bean and Tea leaf.
After going home and taking a long nap we went to Panama Costco.
Anyone know why the grapes are next to the champagne?
At midnight peopke eat 12 grapes and make a wish for each month.
Today was a really lazy day but we dos make it to the gym. My doctors have said I can start light weights and stretching again. It’s amazing how much muscle I lost in these last 3 months. I’m starting out with the lightest weights and in some cars no weight. But it feels great to be working out again.
Yesterday I was able to get my first dose of Avastin the maintenance drug.
This it’s great news because it means I’m all healed from surgery. I couldn’t get the drug until I was cleared by my doctors.
Every three weeks I’ll come in and get this little IV bag of the drug. I may be able to switch to a pill in the future but for now it’s this.
I get the drug at the same place I got chemo. While I’d rather never go back there, I know all the nurses and they have the place really decked out for Christmas.
So it’s all good. The drug makes me super sleepy day of but then I’m totally fine which is great.
I’m taking a few days off from blogging, mostly because I have to go out and take some more photos.
I’ll be back in a few days with more photos.
Each city in Colombia goes all out on Christmas lights. This was a city of half a million people with a huge display. This tree and all the lights turned multiple colors. I didn’t get any otger photos but every park was decorated with lights any even the tiny with all the doors had a big display.
And there was even a tourist llama. I learned on this trip that a little llama is called a llamito which is pronouncec jamito. It may be my new favorite word.
Today I’m going to post a bunch of random photos.
Has food gootten fancier lately or is this a Colombian thing? All our food came with edible flowers.
Or a drizzle.
Or both. Look how fancy this omelette is.
I assume these are edible flowers. If not I ate a lot of inedible flowers on this trip.
