Shavua tov

Our Shabbat got off to a better start compared to last week's inedible New York Pizza after seven hours in the ER. This week, brisket chef extraordinaire Leonard Chain brought over the good china for a full Shabbat dinner featuring cocktails by Jackie Eyl!  It was a touch of normalcy to have Shabbat with friends.

Thanks to Ken's Aunt Marilyn, we now have some Zoroastrian help.  Her friend, a Zoroastrian named Persi Kanga, is saying a prayer that in all honesty sounds an awful lot like Hebrew!  Shintos, we are still waiting for that sacrifice. And Presbyterians, Mormons, and Rastafarians, it's time to step up!  We're keeping a list. And checking it twice.  

Saturday started with a visit from school friends August, Ned, Ben, and Christian (sponsored by Alison's cookies).   Next was a visit from the Skelsey-Jia reunion tour.

Pop Pop came in from Florida and found his way to CNMC thanks to the best driving service in DC: Helaine's Hack Service.  (Who knew that a former Deputy Associate Attorney General of the US, from the Obama administration, no less, had such skills?)   He will be in town this week to help out as Amy needs to work Monday & Tuesday, and Raina leaves for Tajikistan.  Aunt Lisa, Aunt Jill, Uncle Matt, cousin Owen, and cousin Jack all came in as well for a Kauffman reunion.  But Harry was not feeling well, and more time was spent in the Ronald McDonald Lounge than in his room.  The hospital has since renamed it the Harry Weinstein Family Lounge as more of Harry's visitors made themselves at home.  Owen and Matt at least had the chance to detour to Horace & Dickey's and Dangerously Delicious.

Harry started a second day of chemo but had an allergic reaction.  The medication was stopped and Benadryl was administered.  Most of the day was spent sleeping it off.

Dinner was Harry's favorite spicy (stinky) Chinese food from Great Wall of Szechuan delivered by the Neufelds who braved the traffic stoppages due to the Gay Pride Parade!  For those of you not in DC, every street in any part of habitable DC was closed for parade partying.  Driving through it was like picking up Chinese on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras but without the beads.

And, after dinner, Harry was back on the bike for the first time since his diagnosis!  Thanks to the unbelievable generosity of Jeremy Fand and his riding group in Westchester, Harry has an incredible Wahoo Kickr bike trainer for his recovery.

Here's Harry taking a post-Shabbat ride: