A comment from Katy (by Amanda)

Tomorrow (Tuesday) Val will meet with Dr. Cook. Tonight, I just want to play a bit with my post on the blog. So, I am going to "leverage" and "repurpose" my sister Katy's comment, which she made in response to Val's last post about the radiation news. This leveraging is, after all, in the best of the new traditions of journalism, wherein the editors take readers' writing and fill the newspaper and website with it. No payment required. Space filled. It's all good. Well. Not really. But, certainly Katy's comment is worth reading and I have no faith that  (m)any of you go back to read the comments on past posts. I think she sums up rather well how we are both feeling about the radiation treatment that has been recommended. So. Here's Katy's comment, including photo to provide a visual reference for you: 

Blancmange

"Hmm. My reaction to your latest news is to try to find a photo of blancmange ... In English novels (as I remember them) it's a dessert presented at sick people's bedsides--or eaten in boarding schools with indifferent cooks. Please imagine a slightly unappetizing white wobbly thing on a plate instead of all these words. Unsatisfactory, supposedly good for you, vaguely disgusting, extraneous to the enjoyment of life, but you have to say Thank You for it anyway. Stage III is good, but let's decree a few more Special Celebration Dates so you can both have Amanda B'day Weeks several times a year to relieve the strain of good news. I open bids with: April 25 (1940 women got the vote in Quebec); October 24 (2005 Rosa Parks died). I WAS going to suggest the date of Morgentaler's victory but January 28 is too close to February 6. And of course I've already forgotten when Val's birthday is." [September 7]

I am off to Edmonton on Wednesday for a short week's visit with my parents. It will be good to see them. 

When I've not been shoveling snow, I've been fantasizing
about spending summer days in the gazebo at the cottage... 

...and enjoying warm sunshine on the deck that overlooks Lake Winnipeg. Oh yes!