Restaurant Bucket List Re-Visited...

Back in January I wrote about our Restaurant Bucket List ....

After Tim's cancer diagnosis a few days before Christmas last year, our family was reeling from the news. We tried to act "normal" and do the things that we normally do even though every waking moment was consumed with the angst of the diagnosis, whether it was spoken or not.

In the midst of trying to pretend life was as normal as it had ever been, we decided we wanted to rent a movie or two. That's what we needed -- a break from reality.

Before Tim's diagnosis we had wanted to see the movie "Bucket List". Now for those that may know what that movie is about, you might not think it would be the first pick of someone newly diagnosed with cancer. The movie is about two guys that have cancer and they go about making their "bucket list" and set out to fulfill it. We decided to be brave and rent the movie. It was a wonderful movie too. After seeing that movie I laughed with Tim telling him that he didn't need a "bucket list" like in the movie but he needed a "bucket list" for restaurants before he began radiation and chemo and he got a feeding tube. It was our joke between us.....

What began as a joke turned into wonderful friends from church giving us gift cards for places that Tim and I could go to eat before the inevitable happened to him. We had a fun time going to different places letting Tim savor eating before the reality of radiation and chemo set in.

That was nine months ago. It's been 4 weeks since the feeding tube came out. Last Saturday, for the first time in 9 months, Tim and I were able to use one of our left over gift cards we had and went out to dinner at Tony Roma's!

What a wonderful celebration it was for getting back to "normal". Tim had potato soup, baby back ribs, mashed potatoes, two glasses of milk and a glass of water! (can you tell that potatoes and milk go down really well?) ;) And, he ate nearly all the food!

I am so happy that we are finding such joy in our return to normalcy. When I think back on the previous months of our walk with cancer, I am awed by the positive attitude that Tim has had through all he has been through. I am so blessed to have Tim as a my husband, my companion, my example, and my best friend.