Joe's Crab Shack

Well Monday, (August 2) we left early for Salt Lake for Curt's appointment at Huntsman. His first appointment was for Labs, then we had a small break so we went to an Art supply store and bought some oil paints. We bought enough that we should be able to keep him busy for a long while. At two we went back to Huntsman for the bone biopsy. This is painful and just plain not fun. Abbie was the tech who did it and she was good. She has to actually take a core sample of the bone then take some marrow for testing. After that he had an MRI. I waited out on the terrace and took in some sun.We stayed at Ryan and Ginelle's house. It was so nice to have a place to just kick back.

Tuesday we didn't have any appointments so we went to IKEA. Curt was still pretty sore from the biopsy but we managed to get through the whole store. We bought some furniture for our front room. I'm very excited to put it together. We will wait until the new carpet is put in. We have already painted in there and it really looks great.

Tuesday night we went to the Jordan Landing and had dinner at Joe's Crab Shack. I really have never been fond of sea food but was willing to try it again. At least the place didn't smell fishy! That was a good start. I got a little nervous when the waiter came and put a bib on us and gave us these tools to crack open the crab. It looked more like an orange peeler. I really thought I could get away with getting a good steak but No.......Curt wanted to share a steam pot with me. We got 2 of everything. Corn on the cob, a whole crab, about 10 shrimp, a big fat sausage. I was really surprised because I dug right in and actually finished before Curt. It was really good. I won't give Curt a bad time about eating fish again. Well, maybe I won't.

Today, Wednesday we packed up and first went to Capitol Ceramics where Curt bought 100 pounds of clay and some new glazes. Then we went to the VA Hospital where I went in to see if we qualified for travel money. When we have to travel away from home the VA will give us gas money. Yes, we qualify and they will send it to us. Yeah!  Then we went up to Huntsman and had lunch at 'The Point' restaurant. Very cool to look out over the valley and watch the lightning show. We could see all over the valley.  At two thirty we went to see Dr. Zangari. He looked at the test results and told us that it was 'Very Good'. There were no new spots to be worried about and the cancer count was actually below 1 percent. Like point zero seven. I think. Anyway it is looking very good for him and he was very relieved. We addressed some issues and changed some drugs,and set up the schedule for the next two months of Chemo in Cedar City. Then Dr. Zangari wants to see him after that. Hope we can work around the Elk Hunt! Well, then we left!!!!! Of course we got into the afternoon rush hour traffic, but we were so glad to have that over. We got into some rain and hail but got home around eight. So good to be home.

-Elaine