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12 Days of Styxx, 2018 Edition: Day 5

Welcome to a year in the life of our greyhound/lurcher Styxx, compressed into twelve daily posts leading up to Christmas.

Gail and Styxx walk the shoreline of Lake Winnipeg near Winnipeg Beach, June 13, 2018.

Navigating Hope

 

 

 

12 Days of Styxx, 2018 Edition: Day 4

Welcome to a year in the life of our greyhound/lurcher Styxx, compressed into twelve daily posts leading up to Christmas.

Taking a break on a very hot day in Assiniboine Park, June 10, 2018.

 

Cover

 

 

12 Days of Styxx, 2018 Edition: Day 2

Welcome to a year in the life of our greyhound/lurcher Styxx, compressed into twelve daily posts leading up to Christmas.

Styxx takes a walk along the Assiniboine River after a fresh fall of snow on March 5, 2018.

Card, February

12 Days of Styxx, 2018 Edition: Day 1

Welcome to a year in the life of our greyhound/lurcher Styxx, compressed into twelve daily posts leading up to Christmas.

We start with a late afternoon walk on February 23, 2018. Gail and Styxx take a photo break during a walk on frozen Omand’s Creek in Winnipeg.

November

 

 

 

Navigating Hope: Gail’s Epilogue

For 10 weeks now David has been marking, in pictures, our way through active treatment for my breast cancer. There has been a seemingly endless parade of appointments and procedures during what we have come to term (borrowing from Fidel Castro) the “Special Period”.

We are fortunate. Throughout treatment, we have been able to walk between our home and CancerCare Manitoba – 50 minutes each way along the leafy residential streets of central Winnipeg.

Active treatment ended last week with my ringing a bell. (more…)