Medicine and survivors

Friday is similar to other days. We have a routine that is pretty routine. Today, however, Janice called to say they couldn't come for dinner tonight. We had planned to go to Mexico after the Relay for Life, but Don is not feeling well. He is probably logging too many hours in his farming. We plan to meet Wednesday evening at Sauza in Harlingen. Since we weren't going to Mexico this evening, we decided to go this morning. We ate an early lunch and took off to get medicine and booze. We found most of our medicine at the Discount Farmacia which gives us free parking. We learned absolute frightening news: the Arimidex Evelyn needs for the cancer treatment costs $210 for 30 tablets. This will be quite an expense for us after September 1, Medicare day for Evelyn. Perhaps we will have to take a Medicare supplement that includes prescription coverage. After the drugs we bought to hold us over until we return in the fall. We then proceeded to look for Christmas gifts for Tom and Peter. We bought them matching blue barong tagalogs (guayabera shirts). I drank my obligatory Mexican beer as we looked. We then went to the discount liquor store for a liter of Crown Royal for Sam and a liter of Bailey's for Stacy and Tom. We came home and Evelyn went to the pool for an hour while I slept. We went to the Relay for Life and were blessed by the display of Christian faith and love. Say what you will about the Valley, there is a deep, solid Christian base to almost every organization here. The teams, etc. raised over $200,000 for the American Cancer society. We bought three luminaries: a memory one for my mom, and two honors for Evelyn and Pieder's mom, Ursula. After the survivor's lap (all survivors walk around the quarter mile track at a local high school), we went to Salazars for a southwestern burger. It cost $4.50 but was 1/2 pound of meat. We brought that and an order of French fries home. The burger was good but the fries were not. We would not return for another but were glad we had this experience. We will go to Harlingen tomorrow to clean our unit at 320.