We’re going away for a few days over the holiday. Originally, we were heading to Las Vegas. Circumstances have changed the location of the trip and it hardly matters, except to jot it down.

Brian has been having a rough time with the proton treatments. The pain after each session is proving to be great so even with cannabis gummy bears it’s rough. The sessions themselves haven’t gone liked planned. They were supposed to have been done by the holidays but they’ve had to cancel a number of them because of the equipment. 

What am I talking about? Let’s back up a second.

Garry and I made plans to see Brian and Joel over the holidays. The two have always been my logical family or fathers from another gene pool. We’ve been going out to Vegas for the last couple of years around the holidays to visit. 

Brian has continued to fight a nasty skin cancer that has caused him to lose one eye. The latest treatment for him has been proton treatment, that is meant to kill everything in its path. The treatments have taken him away from their home in North Las Vegas to Loma Linda, California, where he is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. According to Brian, there is the treatment center, his Studio apartment across the way and nothing else.

It’s been tough on them as Joel has been back in Vegas working. Brian, alone in nowhere California is doing treatments and going back to an empty room. He is a fighter. It’s been his life for quite sometime. It will be great to see them.

An old friend of theirs called Guy, lives in Palm Springs and they’ll be staying there over the holidays. Joel drove to Linda, picked Brian up and made the trip to P.S.. Garry and I were able to put the points back in the Southwest mileage plan and get Palm Springs tickets to boot.

It’s not about location. I’d meet them on the moon so long as there is transportation.