Pear Pizza!

I was dreading my visit to Dr. K especially as I knew he was going to put that dreadful scope up my nose and down though my sinus so that he could have a good look at my throat. Argggg - I hate that thing. But, it was wonderful to hear him say that he could not see any signs of the tumor. My airway is wide open and my vocal chords are in surprisingly good nick considering that they've been under the knife three times and crispy fried for 7 weeks!

He did comment on the irritation in my throat and when I asked what I can take to relieve it he said......"Tincture of time"

The next step is to get rid of my trache tube but before he can pull it out, I have to keep a cap plugged over the end of it for the next week. This is to force me to breath through my nose and mouth and not through the hole in my neck. Luckily, we had a trache cap at home and so we drove right back to the house and I plugged myself up!

Mr. Indi was very excited that my prognosis is looking so good and he wanted to treat me to a special lunch so off we went to Riverside and a wonderful Italian joint called Mario's Place. It had rained on the way over and was still spitting when we parked the car. As I opened the door, I felt the need to cough and I pulled the cap off the end of my trache - and - of course - dropped it on the road and it rolled under the car! Poor Mr. Indi .....crawling around on his hands and knees - groping under the chassis in the rain! He called me a few choice love bird names!

The restaurant wasn't open for lunch yet so we walked across the road to the Mission Inn and went into the Presidential Bar for a drink. What a lovely place the Mission Inn is.....I hope we can spend a couple of days there this summer. There is so much to see and do in Riverside - museums - an art gallery - a British pub! - what more could you want!

Lunch at Mario's was fabulous. Mr. Indi had pear and Gorgonzola pizza and I had roasted chicken smothered with portobello mushrooms sauteed in butter and sage with polenta on the side. Mr. Indi drank an India Pale Ale (in honour of me!) and I had a Stella - cor - I haven't had one of those for yonks!

I took the picture above after the rain had stopped. It is in the courtyard of the Mission Inn.