Hello everyone! Thanks for tuning in. Today Mike had his usual around of treatment. He had another massage which he states has left him pretty sore. He had an added treatment which consisted of laying on a table with some sort of vibration. I am not sure what that does. Will have to find that out. Dr. Weber has today and tomorrow off. He said he has to give a speech and is visiting his daughter. However, his wife who has been on vacation was to be here today and tomorrow. We did not see her at all today. Dr, Weber said that one of them always has to be here. I knew that his wife was also some sort of doctor, but I was not sure what she practiced. We were told by another patient that she is an anesthesiologist.
There is a girl here from Phoenix (Lindy) for her 2nd visit. She is here for breast cancer. Leah is from Wales. She has a tumor in her groin. Leah is very outspoken in her beliefs of different supplements to take or not take. Because she has been dealing with her cancer for 3 years and it has not metastasized, I think she may have incite to what works.
After lunch today, we had some time before Mike's hyperthemia treatment (that is where he is now) at 4:40 PM. We got up from the table and hightailed it over to the train station that goes up the hill. We left at 12:30 to walk over there by 1:00. We had on jeans, long sleeve shirts, and took fleece jackets with us because we were told it would be cold at the top. We were walking pretty fast trying to make it in time. Mike said you might as well slow down because we are never going to make it. We did decrease our pace a little bit, and as we rounded the corner, we could see the train still sitting there. We saw that there were other people still heading into the station so we picked up the pace, bought our tickets, and were able to make the 1:00 departure. The tickets cost 59 euros which would be $78.12. The view up the mountain was beyond breathtaking. Along the way, you could see trails up the mountain with people climbing up to the top. We also saw a couple of shack looking buildings which appeared to be inhabited. I guess if you don't want any neighbors that is the way to go. We got to the top and had to go through a tunnel to get outside. The highest point is 1,838 meters which is 6030 .184 feet. It took about 20 minutes to get to the top.
We came out to a platform where there is a restaurant and various different stairways to take you to other sites. As we were walking around this area, here comes our dinner mate Chris. Chris is from France. He was still waiting for dessert and drinking a glass of wine when we left the clinic for our walk to the station. We could not understand how he made the train when we left before him and just made the train. We come to find out, he found a short cut to the train station and actually made it there a minute before we got there. We never saw him on the ride up the mountain.
We walked up to a lookout and the view was more than amazing. At this point, we were at the lowest of all the possible viewing points. We then walked up to another viewing area to the Wendelstein church. This church was built in 1889. It is considered to be Germany's highest consecrated church. Services are held here in the summer every Sunday, and a lot of couples say "I do" here. From there, we started our ascent up the mountain at 1724 meters toward the top. There were rambling trails that had secure railings. The trails were very rocky interspersed with sections of stairs. We went through a tunnel and had many different viewing points along the way. It was unbelievable as to how all this was created on the side of the Alp mountains. The brochure states that The Wendelstein was formed 230 million years ago from a reef of mussels and other deposits and due to the natural movement of the earth's plates, it moved from the Mediterranian region to Bavaria. Along the way we saw crow like birds, which of course Mike had to take a picture of. I don't understand what the fascination was there with them. They were like seagulls at the shore with people feeding them, We were almost to the top when we saw Chris coming down from the top. Unfortunately clouds had rolled in a a little while we were there, and Chris said you really could not see a lot more than we could already see. At this point, Mike was ready to call it quits for the day. I cannot tell you how many stairs we climbed to get that far. I wanted to continue on, but then was afraid it would take too long to climb back down to get the 2:55 train so we could be back in time for Mike's 4:40 hyperthemia treatments. We went into the restaurant to get something to drink. Mike wanted coffee but he could only find a machine with cappuccino and espresso and he did not want that. I got something called a cola mixture. I was hoping it was something like Coke. It wasn't the same, but it was OK. I had some sort of strawberry dessert here so I would have something in my stomach to carry me over since dinner is smoked trout. Mike wants me to have them bring it out for me, and he can then have a 2nd helping of the trout.
We rode back down the mountain with Chris. Again, we just got on the train with 1-2 minutes to spare. We forgot about the train going back down left at 5 minutes to the hour. Chris showed us the short cut he took to get to the station. Now we could see how he beat us there. That was just too funny.
We just got back to the room from dinner. Mike ate my trout. He really liked it. I had fruit, toast, and yogurt for my meal. We then stayed and spent time talking with Leah, Chris, and Christy who is here from Charleston, SC. Christy is here for her first time. She is dealing with a 2nd round of ovarian cancer. Mike also heard she has some sort of cancer in her upper chest. It is now 8:25 PM.
I had said I was going to speak about the food we have had thus far. I will discuss that at another time. Hope all is well back in North America.
