Gardening For The Soul

And yes, pun intended on the title. We have been calling my new additions ‘Frankenweenies’ – a term of endearment but you’ll have to check out the movie to get the full impact. But suffice it to say that I hope things get somewhat better before I take them out in public under normal conditions. I am sure Angie’s never went through the beaten up looking stage, or at least she never had to flush out her own drains and have her kids screw up their noses at them before getting to the final version! Hers were probably like one of those Extreme Home Makeover programs where they make you leave your house and you don’t see anything again until the whole final product looks amazing.

The family has been wonderful and Steve helps out with all the icky dressing, drainage chores I can’t do myself and does it with a smile on his face. I asked him if he could love the new models as much the the vintage pair I owned before and he says that as long as they are attached to me, then of course he can. As this is, of course, the perfect answer and men are generally not that good at producing such delicate responses when put on the spot, I am thinking he’d been practicing an appropriate answer for quite some time, knowing the question was bound to come! Well, he was very smooth with it, I must say! Victoria is being incredibly mature and responsible about the whole thing, helping me out when I ask and even when I don’t. And Sarah dispenses regular hugs and kisses , then leaves the bathroom looking like a bomb has hit it, along with every subsequent space she’s been in, but lo and behold, I get another set of hugs and kisses to make the tidy up less frustrating.

Have been feeling blue about the chemo thing, but after a visit to both the chiropractor and acupuncturist today, my mojo is restored and my yin and yang energy aligned, meaning that I have my cynical, sarcastic point of view back, as evidenced by this post. I can look upon chemo with humor today – who the bloody hell knows how I’ll feel tomorrow.

A big, big, big thank you to pink blankets, rainbows and unicorns (if anyone wrapped or sent me those last week) as everyone who has been involved has said the surgery went “very, very well” and my healing continues to progress at a good old rate. Am off to see the plastic surgeon next Monday to have the drains removed. I will also get back the biopsy results on the extra nodes they took and a Stage will be designated (IIA, IIB or IIIA) before they decide on the course of chemo.

So that’s where we stand for now. I just binge watched the second season of Hemlock Grove which I really enjoyed as it seemed to make fun of itself at times.

And finally, thank you so much for those of you who have cooked for us – the quality of food intake, particularly for the kids, has risen exponentially.

Lots of love,
Amanda