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Remember the pizza that we got when we were at Mayo?  Well Tony decided to send the picture of the pizza to Toppers to let them know that their product was substandard at the very least, never mind how the pizza looked when we opened the box.  The Toppers Owner/Operator immediately responded.   He’s agreed to refund our money and has been more than sincere about...

We weren’t in a huge hurry to get back on the road yesterday.  We both woke up around 8.  I went down about 8:15 to bring us up some coffee from the grab and go.  Tony watched the news and I did some computer work.  I ended up heating up two portions of the breakfast casserole I made over the weekend.  There really isn’t a...

I have to admit that the drive to Rochester isn’t too bad.  Once we get through the bullshit construction on I-90, it was pretty smooth sailing.  Although Tony had me drive the whole way.  Which is good and bad.  Good in that I know he can just sit back and relax, but bad, because I can see that he cringes pretty much the whole time...

Saturday morning out refrigerator looked a bit bare.  No ham, bacon, sausage or any meat to speak of.  I did have a steak in the freezer, but I was lazy and didn’t want to take the time to thaw it, plus I hate thawing meat in the microwave, I think it ruins it. What did I have?  A .70 loaf of sesame bread from Walmart...

All day yesterday felt like a Monday to me at work since I had been off for four days.  Even though I could have still taken the day off since it had already been approved, I figured why waste a day when I may need to more next week or down the road.  And it worked out because one of the other secretaries had a...

Our appointment yesterday morning was at St. Mary’s.  Just when we got the lay of the land at Mayo, we had to switch locations – St. Mary’s is maybe 4 blocks from Mayo?  Either way, it is a sea of humanity, even at 6:15 in the morning.   When we arrived for the MRI of Tony’s heart, he immediately starts joking with the nurse.  It’s funny...

This week has been a bit of a roller coaster.  We left Illinois knowing that Tony had some sort of liver disease.  Our thought was that we could get some ideas on how to control/stop the continued liver disease, find out how he got it, etc.  After a battery of initial tests, everything is pointing to his heart.  His heart is actually causing liver disease....

We had a super early appointment yesterday morning.  Like, get up at 5:00 a.m. to get to our appointment.  Here’s the kicker.  We couldn’t enter the same Mayo Clinic main entrance as we did the previous day because the hour of our appointment.  Luckily as we got to Mayo, there were a couple of cabbies who pointed us in the right direction.  But here is...

So we had our first day at Mayo, and all I can say is . . . WOW.  We met our shuttle bus down in our lobby.  Totally on time to the minute.  We get to Mayo and the shuttle bus pulls in and the first thing I think of is, are we checking into a high end hotel?!  There were three lanes into the...

We had a nice time at the wedding on Saturday night.  It’s just weird that we are old enough that our friends kids are getting married.  Tony was the best man at the parents of the grooms wedding – so they have a lot of history.  I’ve known them for now 14 years, but I always like hearing the stories of when Tony was younger. ...