We have been a little remiss on writing in the blog since Christmas, so I thought I would give an update. As is the saying, no news is good news; and with respect to Brian’s health, he is still doing amazingly well. He has had a couple of days here and there where he has not been feeling at the top of his game, but they are just minor little things that maybe would have happened, cancer therapy or not! We just tend to always blame it on the chemo. Brian is booked for another CAT scan this coming Friday. The doctor says she always does a repeat CAT scan after round 3 of chemo to see how the lymphoma is responding to treatment. Just from her palpation alone though, she says his liver and spleen have really responded well and have drastically reduced in size already. We then go for more blood work early morning Monday and then see the doctor an hour later; with chemo round #4 slated for Tuesday. We’re getting there, hopefully after next week, he only has 2 more rounds to go before being put on maintenance therapy. Updates are forthcoming after Tuesday’s round.
We have busily been getting the house ready to put on the market. Brian and our neighbor, Glen, went to the dump this morning to get rid of all our old TVs and electronics and believe me the the van was packed with it all. With the “tech world” as it is today, we certainly accumulate a lot of tech garbage when we buy to replace old technology for the new. The house is slowly showing signs of the decluttering, especially the basement as Brian has been working diligently on that as that is where all our junk has accumulated over the years.
We will be putting our house on the market during the week of January 23rd and our hope is that we sell quickly and that it doesn’t drag on too long. The market seems reasonably good in Guelph and we feel the house will have a lot of appeal with the surrounding open fields, being a bungalow and having a full apartment in the basement.
This week they started building our new condo and they already have the first level done on all four units in just four days. We of course have been driving over every day to see how far they have come along. It is exciting to watch the process and hard to believe that in four months’ time we will be moving in!! I have a few pictures I will add below.
So that’s our update for now. We will update again next week to report on Brian’s fourth round of chemo! Thanks for reading!!!
This was when the foundation was done back in October/November time frame. We back onto the little parkette that is beside the building in the background – those condo’s are very expensive – over $600,000 – each owner has the entire floor and they have their own personal elevator! They are quite beautiful but a little beyond our price range but it is nice to be backing onto their quiet parkette at the side and most of the people living in that building are seniors – so it should be a quite place to live – we hope!
This is our double car garage and it is hard to visualize here, but see the space at the back of the garage to the left of where the building starts, this is a 6 foot wide walkway/storage area that steps down a few steps from the garage area and you can exit out the back of the house from there too. We have a terraced lot, so it steps down a few steps here which will also give us bigger windows at the back of the house.
The main floor supports. We are looking at the front of the house towards the back, the garage is the cement floor on the left; the stoned area is part of our porch at the front.
Looking down into the basement.
The red support beam you see is where our double car garage is and although you can’t see it from this picture, right beside where you see the doorway that will lead from the garage into the house is a long 6 foot wide storage area that goes directly to the back of the house (which I mentioned above) We have tons of space in the garage because of this. I will get further pictures this weekend and post more pictures as the condo is built. The window to the right of the garage is where our dining room window will be. We are really starting to get excited about it all now!
Notice the lack of snow….we have been very fortunate so far this year – the weather has been quite baumy for mid-January. It would be nice if it stayed that way but we know the snow will come sooner than later!
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