Seth-n-Jode's Adventures

We got pizza today!!!  Beau Jo's own canadian bacon and pineapple on a thick white crust, extra mozzeralla and honey to put on the crust.  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  Gooooooodddd!  Thanks Karl for bringing it.  All of us chowed down and it was probably the best pizza I've ever tasted!

More good news.  Seth got his catheter out and all his piece parts down in that region are doing their jobs properly.  So no more tubes!  Hooray.  Lets celebrate...which we plan to do at his birthday party tomorrow! Join us if you can at Kindred, 1920 High Street between 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. to share in some ice cream cake!  Just the gift of your company is necessary if you can make it!

We did some more math problems with Seth.  He's having a little problem with subtraction but coming along.  There were many math questions that his mom Judy asked him where I was reaching for my HP and he would just answer them.  He's always been a math whiz and addition, multiplication and division seem to be working perfectly for him.  And for the most part subtraction is working ok but he still gets some wrong answers but now he's realizing he's wrong once he says the wrong answer.

Seth is also able to move both his legs now.  They are really starting to work on getting his range of motion back.  We've got to get that boy back onto his bike, into his kayak, on his telemark skis and into his hiking boots.  He certainly has his work cut out for him but he's starting to have me do extra PT on him because he says it hurts so good!

The picture for today shows our friend Missy enjoying the local delicacy in Peru which is Qui (basically guineau pig).  I ordered one too (thinking when in Rome do as the Romans do) but I simply couldn't eat it.  The food in South America is raw in the sense that I think the poor little pig was probably running around about 5 minutes before it ended up on my plate.  Missy had come to trek with us in Peru on the Inca Trail over to Machu Picchu. Anyway, we climbed up and over the Inca Trail for 5 days and ended up coming into Machu Picchu just as the sun was rising.  If you ever have a chance to visit that place, I highly recommend it.  It is simply stunning in a spiritual and majestical way.  I thought it would be this big tourist trap but it really took me by surprise.  To see the craftsmanship in how the stones were put together and are still standing since they were put there around 1450 or so took my breath away.  Anyway, as we came back down into Cusco, Missy came down with Montezuma's revenge.  I swear it must have been the Qui.  We just started calling her Barfo, Poopo, Hacko (BPH).  And then since she'd paid for a first class trip and I wanted to be sure she got her money's worth, we got ourselves in the back of a 2 ton dump truck and spent a day breathing diesel fumes as the truck rumbled its way into the Huayhuash range for some trekking.  Missy was only partially BPHing by the time we started the trek and she is always game for an adventure.  Anyway, we all ended up getting pretty sick throughout the rest of the trek.  But it was so worth it.  The mountains were simply beautiful.  We had a few little issues like losing the horses which were carrying all our gear. But we found them.  Minor little problems like this up at 16,000 feet!  At the end of the day, it all worked out.  The world righted itself around us. And if I remember right, when we got back to Cusco, (we first had a shower to wash off more grit and grime than I think I've ever accumulated before) and then we had pizza.  And boy did it taste good!