The closest joint, the Liberty Hotel, which is right next door to MGH, would be fabulous BUT…the joint would run us $507 a night. AND their website is entirely unclear as to whether Coco could stay too—I'm not going anywhere without my girl. At over $2,000 (which doesn’t include meals and tips) for a measly four night stay, we should be able to keep a whole shelter worth of kittens in the room.
Sure, Ten, Coco and I could stay at Cambridge’s Fairfield Inn which is almost half the price of the Liberty, pet friendly and offers a complementary breakfast. Still, it’s far enough from Proton Central that we’d need to cab it OR drive and pay for parking. We’d still be spending well over a 1,000 bones for just one week’s stay.
Nuh-uh. No can do.
I found a pet friendly, reasonably priced (per night) airbnb apartment that’s within MGH walking distance. Sounds great, right? Two probs:
- We’d need a place to stash Bix for the week and, sadly, the place doesn’t include parking.
- There’s a 40 (FORTY!) night minimum. A) We’d only need the place for four nights out of each week and B) I have five more weeks of radiation so that comes out to 20, not 40 nights.
Before the parking issue is even sorted, we’ve rung up a bill for 8.2 Gs.
HAH…no.
I have a friend who kept a studio apartment on Beacon Hill for nights when he’d get stuck at the office too late to catch a train home. I’d ask to borrow BUT the condo’s a fourth floor walk-up. I’m doing much better with stairs, thank you, but not four flights, twice a day minimum better. Also, he’s retired now so has probably sold the place.
There’s always some damn catch, eh?
I have 25 more proton sessions to go. That’s five week’s worth of brutal (90 minute inbound) commutes. I can do this. It’ll be monstro annoying BUT doable.
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