Team Brenda: Groundhog Day 2012

February 1, 2012

Hello Everyone!

It’s February 1^st with temperatures damn near 60 and not a trace of snow in Boston – awesome! Punxsutawney Phil, the famous groundhog has his annual fifteen minutes of fame tomorrow and tells us how much more winter we will have remaining. When did it begin? February 2^nd is also my mother’s birthday so we have plans to celebrate at my fave’ – the Capital Grill, Chestnut Hill on Friday.

I have been using a new form of pain med application by using a portable pain pump which keeps my meds at a constant baseline level automatically and if I have a break through headache I can just press a button for relief – cool! The trade off for this convenience is I must carry a small shoulder strapped pump around at all times :(.

This is a VERY exciting time for our New England Patriots as they are in the Super Bowl again! I love our Patriot’s but I also have a family friend playing for the New York Giants, Mark Herzlich. He is a BC grad that has beaten cancer and eloquently spoke about his battle at a cancer fundraiser that Don organized more than a year ago in Waltham. Mark just tweeted this through our new and immediate Twitter world yesterday;

“2 yrs ago I was told I might never walk again. Just WALKED off plane

in Indy to play in The SuperBowl. Take that Sh*t Cancer!”