A week in Montreal, seeing old friends and old sights, and then a week back in TO, taking Bethany for her last week of chemo (woohoo!) and building a lean-to on the side of the house.
Montreal, for all its construction/traffic headaches, is still a great city with awesome food all over, lots of history, and beautiful women everywhere (sorry TO ladies).
It's starting to show its age a little though, now that the bridges and overpasses have caught up with the roads as being the crappiest in urban Canada. The state of the overpasses (boarded up and caged for reinforcement) reminded me of the concrete ceiling that collapsed in Boston just after the "Big Dig" and new tunnel was finished, which ended up killing a woman.
Props to Archemdis and his blog for chronicalling this and this photo:
http://archemdis.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/montreal-quebec-is-literally-crumbling-into-dust/
Oh, and not only did Beth have her last 5 days of IV chemo last week, but she also got her PICC line taken out on Friday (double woohoo!) and we're hoping the CT scan on August 2nd just confirms the progress. Meanwhile once the wound from her line heals she can go swimming again, with the help of a swimming earband like this:
and Doc's Proplugs as seen on Survivorman (don't ask, I've never seen it):
Oh, and we also got her the puppy she's been wanting - a "bichon-poo", and she broke it off with her jerk "boyfriend", so I'd say that's a fair trade.
I actually feel more sorry these days for our other daughter Maggie, who didn't seem to mind all the attention Beth was getting when she was more sick and in danger, but now feels a little left out and jealous I think. As a middle child myself, I can relate.
Especially now that she also has a younger brother and a puppy competing for the "cute and helpless" spot in the family. She doesn't stand a chance.
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