{"id":7892,"date":"2024-03-26T16:27:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=7892"},"modified":"2024-12-13T18:48:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:48:33","slug":"cancer-update-household-events-and-holy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/cancer-update-household-events-and-holy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Update, Household Events, and Holy Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Minnesota drought conditions. (March 19, 2024; released March 21, 2024) via MN DNR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There’s a winter weather advisory in effect until 2:00 p.m. \u2014 but most of the snow has already fallen and\/or gotten blown around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I gather that three to five inches came down here. That’s three to five inches more than we had before. This has been an unusually warm and dry winter, so this snow is welcome. I hope it changes our status from “moderate drought” to merely “abnormally dry”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I haven’t heard anything about my brother-in-law (February 7, 2024) \u2014 so I’ll assume that no news is good news, and that he can walk again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number-two daughter started radiation therapy March 11, so this is her third week of taking maybe three hours out of each weekday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That situation has been uneventful, although I’m told that now everything has a metallic taste for her. Unpleasant, but probably not unexpected. The treated area is right under her chin. I’m just glad there hasn’t been nerve damage. Not serious damage, at any rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More good news: my son noticed a leaking pipe Saturday night, and we shut off water before some electronics in the area got damaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even better, he rigged something that directed water away from the could-have-been-affected equipment. Long story short, we had running water again Sunday: and my wife had someone come in and fix the plumbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And best of all, heavy snowfall didn’t start until mid-morning, day before yesterday; so I got to Mass on Palm Sunday. There’s more weather forecast for the weekend, but I’m taking this one day at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holy Week, the time between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, is a very big deal. I’ll be talking about that later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n