Day 90 - Boring, busy day

08:00
We both slept well for a change.
Angiosarcoma wasn't even thought about.
Last night one of the private sellers of a car we wanted to look at called, and we will drive there soon to look at the car. He lives a long way away, so we will meet half way. It is good he will drive the car about 100km to meet us.

Maddie asked what "Standby for Bolo" from the last blog means.
In the US Navy, during under way refueling, a ship will pull up next to a tanker and the tanker will refuel the ship while zooming along. To get the big oil hoses across between ships, there must first be a small line thrown across, so they can pull across bigger lines for the big hoses. The way the first small line gets across, is by a big sailor swinging a sandbag on the end of a 2 meter string. He hurls this heavy sandbag at the other ship. That sand bag is called a "bolo". On the tanker, the Captain would use a loud speaker to tell the other ship to "Standby For Bolo". All people on the other ship would all run and hide, or duck down. It was funny to see the Captain of a big ship run and hide behind something. So in Navy talk, "Standby for Bolo" means that a big hurt is coming your way.
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14:00
We are back after a long drive to look at the one Mercedes. It was not such a good deal. When ever we found a problem with it the guy would say "Don't worry about that, I'll fix it." I think he should have fixed that stuff before showing it to a potential customer. We will have to keep looking.

When I was a child and stubbed my toe, while busy crying, my mother would say "Try to think of something else."  Come on..This was her idea of a cure?   Shouldn't she do something constructive, like kiss it.
 This reminds me of when ever I would cry, my father would say "Stop crying, or I will give you something to really cry about."
What weird solutions my parents had, to my problems.
Maybe my parents thinking could apply to Phantom pain.

I had a lot to say today about different meditation techniques I am using to try to fight Phantom pain. Maddie thought it might be boring to many of the blog readers. I have now started using "Pages". These are separate informational pages that are about a certain subject, and can be accessed by a blog reader "if" they want further information on a subject. This should keep the blogs shorter, and less boring. These pages are listed to the right of the main blog.
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16:00
We just found a car on the internet. We called the guy, and want to go see it in the morning. It is a 2005 Hyundai Atos Prime with an automatic transmission. A very small car, that we will have to see whether I can get into and out of it. It is a bit above our set price range, but it is much newer, with far less kilometers, gets much better petrol mileage, and will be cheaper to maintain. Both Maddie and I would prefer a smaller car than a Mercedes.
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17:00
I am going to meditate, and try to reduce the phantom pain.
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19:00
As you can see, my life is almost normal. With no chemo, and no cancerous leg, I have little to write about. Once a car is bought, then I'll just be fighting the Phantom pains.
Chemo starts again on the 18th of November. Seeing how I cope on crutches with chemo will be the next big challenge.
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