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i just finished my last bag of chemo. i should be discharged in the morning. so far, no transfusion necessary. i guess we’ll find out for certain tomorrow.
abigail, thank you so much for donating your hair. what a huge act of generosity for such a little girl. i am so proud of you! i love your new super cute hairstyle! you look so grown up!
what? three posts in one day? this one is just too awesome too wait for because it has my sister and my jenny! (candice is the one taking photos.) it also features our illustrious house guests, bess rogers, chris kuffner, and elliot jacobson. enjoy.
thank you, melissa & ade. thank you, tyce. mia, i am going to beat this.
that’s where this week has gone. my sister went home. two of my friends received cancer diagnoses. my hair hurts and it’s decided now is the time to fall out.
i go back to the hospital on monday for dose number two of eshap chemotherapy. of course i am dreading it. i hate knowing that i’m going to feel like shit, and i think it’s worse this time because i know just exactly how shitty.
mystery solved. those are pumpkins growing from the compost pile! more specifically, those are last thanksgiving’s floral arrangements. i’m hoping they are at least the white pumpkins we used. so, there’s still a little mystery left.
it’s a good thing that these are doing well, because all of the organic, heirloom varieties i planted in the garden-with-crappy-soil are floundering and being attacked by squash bugs. i think i might try more hot pepper wax spray on those pests.
the neighbors are of course full of helpful chemical poison suggestions, but as you know, that’s not how we roll. any non-toxic ideas? and nothing involving soapy water buckets and early morning bug drowning, please. that is definitely not how we roll.
let’s just take a break from all of this woe-is-me chemo business for a second. remember that garden i planted? i snuck out to have a look at it today. the “garden soil” we had delivered is pretty useless, so things have been off to a slow start in there. over by, and from, the compost pile, however, things are much happier! and by “things,” i mean plants.
i have a mystery melon growing from the geobin. i’m guessing watermelon, but what do i know? it’s something we ate, that’s all i can be sure of. maybe a cantaloupe? i’ve done zero research, but perhaps a kind reader will point me in the right direction. (i should post more photos of the developing fruit and flowers, huh?)
the trellis that is intended to hide our trash bin is home to a few heirloom tomatoes. i’m really excited about the tomatoes. free tomatoes are a good thing.
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