HeiressofBickworth
HeiressofBickworth's JournalMy passport expired november 2019
I failed to renew as i spent most of 2019. In the hispital or a,skilled nursing facility due to cancer. So i wasnt going anywhere to renew. And the fact that i lost nearly all of my hair and didnt want that picture for ten years. When i can get around again abd look more human ill get it renewed. It's not like I'll be leaving the country any time soon anyway.
I lived in Germany 1965 to 1967
In Stahl, a little village outside of Bitburgh in what was then West Germany. My husband was in the USAF, stationed at Bitburgh. I recall that some kids playing in the river across the street found a hand granade in the water. They reported it but no big deal was made of it. USArmy came and took it away. It was a German hand granade. Being just 20 years after the war, it probably was quite dangerous. There were houses in the village that still had pock marks from bullets. Patton's army went through the area from what i read .
On weekends the thing to do was pack a picknic and go into the woods. It was called bunker hunting. Found one. Really weird to go into.
I was very young at the time. (Just 19). We used William Schrirers book Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as our travel guide. Really good history lesson. Ive been fascinated with the war ever since. I'm a huge .MOVIE buff and i PArticularlLY Like movies about the lives of ordinary PEOPLE who did extraordinary things. RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS. My favorite German movie was Phoenix. There was one out a couple of years ago about aGernan soldier who had deserted calledThe Captain. It was atrue story.very disturbing about how someone became so brutal.
I cery much enjoyed my time there and i look forward to your posts about your life there. Thank you.
I finished my sixth and final round of R-Chop in Sept
Fortunately, I'm on Medicare and a supplement. I never had a problem with coverage for the expensive treatments. There is something woefully wrong with an insurance scheme that seems to exist just to collect premiums and deny coverage. Good argument in favor of Medicare for All.
My cancer was in remission after the first two treatments and still in remission after the sixth. Hope you have the same results!
I, too, was getting chemo for stage 4 lymphoma
I was fortunate that the treatments didn't make me sick. So the problem was one of just transportation. If i didn't have a friend or family who could take me to dr or home again, I used Uber. It wasn't particularly cheap but chemo was once every 21 days and I could usually get a ride one way so using Uber once every 21 days wasn't bad. Cancer now in remission and chemo is finished.
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