The Time Has Come

I’m sitting here on a Saturday, enjoying a great coffee, but feeling a little melancholy because the time has come. Surgery time, that is. My surgery is this coming Tuesday, 7:30 a.m. so I probably won’t be writing a wine blog for a few weeks.

The last wine blog was letting you know I was escaping the cold weather and heading South

Well, that didn’t go exactly as planned, because we were supposed to fly out on a Saturday morning at 9 a.m. But then Snowmageddon hit Halifax

We finally got out at 1 p.m. on Monday afternoon, because 83 cms of snow over 2 days tends to shut this city down. We still didn’t get it as bad as Cape Breton, which got 150 cms of snow. That, my friends, is a lot of snow.

My sister and I did enjoy spending the time together, however, personally we wouldn’t go back to Cuba. The people were amazing, however, the supply issues in Cuba are affecting basic necessities like hand soap and toilet paper. The food wasn’t great either, and they only had 1 kind of wine on the resort. They did make a great ice coffee.

I’m not going to share about the wine there, it was a drinkable Spanish wine, but we can’t get it here, so why bother. This wine you can get here.

We went to an Italian a la carte restaurant while there, I was hoping for some Italian wine. They didn’t have it, but here’s a nice affordable Italian wine for you to try. This is a blend of 70% Sangiovese and 30% other grape blends. It’s priced under $20 a bottle and very easy to drink. A great fruity red wine to have with pizza or roast chicken.

I’m going to keep it short this week. I had to do my colostomy training yesterday and I’m still coming to terms with having this bag attached to me for the rest of my life. The good news is that hopefully, fingers crossed, as of Tuesday, I will be finally Cancer free. There is also a significant amount of pain that comes with rectal cancer. There are 2 types of colon cancer, bowel and rectal. Mine was rectal and it was low. So much so that it was uncomfortable to sit.

So, from me to you, take care of yourself and I’ll be back in a few weeks once I’m feeling better. Thank you so much for all the kind notes and supportive words over the past 16 months when I started this journey.

Thank you

Darlene