It is one month since the biopsy that started breast-cancer-bootcamp-week on December 3rd. The initial acute phase of finding out the details of my diagnosis, and starting treatments is passing, and the process to redefine normal for our household has started. Today Laura and Jon helped me get a new buzz cut. It was…
Category: Cancer
A Bigger Piece of Sky
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Christmas Eve we were the happy recipients of Carolers- who braved our treacherous steps to come into our house to sing and be offered Wassail treats. Christmas coincided with the ebbing of the more acute chemo side effects- which meant we spent Christmas day playing, & being happy-…
Winter lights
Martin picked out a little noble fir tree from the friendly older couple on Claremont Road. We enjoyed talking with the chainsaw-weilding woman, who is also a bakery owner – hers is in Warrenton. We talked about the recent cold snap, frozen water pipes, and her Cherokee heritage. Joe’s upbringing in the Texas panhandle made a…
Know any Funny Movies?
Yesterday evening a visit from Cesily and Cippy came with the reminder that laughter is very good medicine: So this is an official request for funny movies, or Utube videos, or Netflix suggestions. Just in case the antics of my three darlings and the chickens aren’t enough. So far feeling better than expected with my…
Let the Games begin….
Greetings fellow travelers. Many thanks for your many acts of kindness and loving support. We are doing well for the first forty eight hours after my first Asklepios treatment. (AKA CHEMO) The doctors said that side effect symptoms will likely start more tomorrow, so I wanted to get the blog running. Joe, the Boys and…
Riding the Pooka 