Day: December 13, 2019

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*DETOUR* to Houston TX and MD Anderson

Dates:     
December 4, 2019 to
March 15, 2020

Mileage:    
7,032

Location:    
Highway 6 RV Resort
Houston, TX

Our plans were for a little downtime in Goodrich, make our way to DFW for Christmas, return to Alpine on New Year’s to celebrate the one year anniversary of starting our adventure, and then on to Big Bend for golf. As the saying goes, the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men often go astray, and while we were going through routine medical checkups, what I first thought was a small mouth ulcer turned out to be cancer.

  • MD Anderson West
  • Highway 6 RV Resort
  • Official Park Picture

  • A Little Christmas Decorating
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I am sorry to tell you this, but it’s cancer.

Since we live in the RV and our legal domicile is in Texas, we had three trips to Livingston planned around filling prescriptions, visiting doctors and dentists, and renewing vehicle registrations. I had noticed a small cyst under the base of my tongue and asked our general practitioner for a referral. She sent me to an ear | nose | throat (ENT) doctor in College Station, TX, and with one look he told me that the small lump “does not look good.” I realize now he knew and was preparing me for the biopsy results.

Still, however, there is nothing that can soften the words:

I am sorry to tell you this, but it’s cancer.

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