Nick and I\u00a0have a rule that only one of us can be sick at a time. This week that rule was broken. On Tuesday night and all through Wednesday, Nick said his feet ached, his legs ached, his back ached… he ached all over. He never complained all through the cancer experience, but he complained this week. I was hoping it was nothing more than a brief virus. Meanwhile, I began to have digestive system issues.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, Nick felt much\u00a0better on Thursday morning, so he seems to have had \u00a0a virus, but he\u00a0\u00a0lost a pound this week. \u00a0 I hope my problem is a virus, too, and that it leaves quickly.<\/p>\n
I was somewhat surprised when\u00a0Nick said he felt well enough to travel to Florida\u00a0in early October. We\u2019ve never been to Sarasota at that time of year, but the weather should be mild, and Nick will be able to leave all thoughts of his cancer experience behind him.<\/p>\n
Our long-term dream\u00a0is a trip to Italy with family members who want to visit our ancestral towns. \u00a0I hoped\u00a0that we might be able to\u00a0go to back to \u00a0Europe before we start planning that trip.\u00a0In January we went\u00a0to the Travel Show<\/em> at the Javits Center in Manhattan\u00a0so that we might\u00a0get\u00a0ideas for a trip \u00a0we might take after my retirement in June.\u00a0Nick\u2019s illness\u00a0made travel at that time impossible, but we did get on several mailing lists.<\/p>\n Recently\u00a0Grand Circle Travel began to send us information about their trips for the remainder of\u00a0this year. Prices are greatly reduced because they want to fill their\u00a0empty spots. We had thought about doing a river cruise, but I wasn’t sure I\u2019d enjoy being\u00a0out on a boat in November. They had a land tour \u00a0to Italy available, with one week in Tuscany and another on the Amalfi Coast. Nick has always done \u00a0our travel planning himself, but I thought this was the time for Nick to sit back and let someone else do the planning and the driving. We booked the trip.<\/p>\n Our first tour! We are incredibly excited! \u00a0We have at least six more weeks for Nick to recover a little more each day. Our friend Shelly, who had a similar cancer, told me that his wife booked a trip for the two of them one month after his treatments stopped,\u00a0and with that to look forward to, he\u00a0had to be ready, ready or not.<\/p>\n The Tuscan towns we will see are Chianciano, Radicofani, Florence, Pienza, Siena, \u00a0and Cortona. We\u2019ll \u00a0also \u00a0see Assisi and Orvieto in Umbria. We\u2019ve been to a few of these towns, but there’s no such thing as too much Tuscany. Returning to Florence\u00a0will not be a problem because it\u2019s\u00a0my favorite city and there is always so much more\u00a0to see there. When we travel, I typically carry the travel books while Nick carries the camera. I confess that I have kept the fact that there is a science museum in Florence\u00a0from Nick\u00a0when we were there before. Yesterday I\u00a0told him\u00a0about the science museum. I have no doubt that we\u2019ll fit\u00a0in a visit there\u00a0 if it’s at all possible, and that will be fine with me.<\/p>\n When we were in Assisi \u00a0in 2009, I was overcome by the summer heat. The cathedral was dark and crowded and \u00a0we didn’t get to see very much of it. I welcome the opportunity to go\u00a0there when the weather is cool and there are fewer tourists.<\/p>\n As for the Amalfi Coast, \u00a0it is touted as being absolutely beautiful, and we\u2019ve never been there, so it will all be new to us. We\u2019ll be seeing Sorrento, Herculaneum, the Archeological Museum \u00a0in Naples, Pompeii, Capri, and \u00a0 Montecassino. Even though we have no ancestors from any of these \u00a0cities or towns, being there\u00a0will still be a dream-come-true.<\/p>\n BTW, my stomach issue\u00a0is gone so I also had \u00a0a 24 hour virus, a different one from Nick\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nick and I\u00a0have a rule that only one of us can be sick at a time. This week that rule was broken. On Tuesday night and all through Wednesday, Nick said his feet ached, his legs ached, his back ached… he ached all over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nicks-progress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}