Jumping Off The Rollercoaster

My Beloved and I have been on a two-month rollercoaster ride. He has been ill, down on power and dizzy, with an elusive diagnosis for two months now. Most days, he's too exhausted to leave the house and, often, even his bed. Occasionally, he has felt well enough to work a day - followed by several "crash" days when he is out of airspeed and energy.

We still don't know what's causing his symptoms and the docs appear to be equally baffled. He will have more tests next Monday and we honestly don't know whether to hope the MRI will reveal the problem or not - if it does, it's likely to be serious. If it doesn't, we are back to square one.

So, one day this week when he awoke feeling quite a bit better, we made the most of the day by having lunch at Murray Circle. Murray Circle is a restaurant with a dramatic view of the Golden Gate Bridge from their outside porch where they welcome folks with dogs, so we took Cora along for the fun. She was welcomed with her own bowl of water and we were offered drinks, too.

My Beloved chose this lightly fizzy cucumber-and-basil flavored soda. We sat on the porch on the soft sofas under the warming heat lamps, admiring the view across the parade ground (this used to be an Army base) to the bridge, bright red-orange in the distance, perfectly picturesque with a wisp of fog blowing through the suspension cables.

We had a marvelous meal that I will talk about in subsequent posts but, for that moment, it was enough just to be out and enjoying a relaxing and lighthearted experience with him after so many weeks on the worry rollercoaster.