On a cheerier note…
The pole beans have runners now, that have just found the bamboo quadripods that will support them. The beans like the heat of recent warm afternoons, and are starting to take off - they will literally begin to ‘grow like a bean’ shortly. We may be seeing blossoms by the time we’re back from France […]
What a way to start the day
So the Chemo meds sent me one of my least favorite surprises this morning (don’t ask) making for an unpleasant start to the day. This week, already busy, hasn’t started well. Sigh. Oh well. My life. Reboot, move on.
What really bothered me by the time I got to the breakfast table is the headline on […]
Up and at ‘em…
The morning sun made a neighbor’s yard interesting as Cassie and I made our half-mile A.M. spin. We’re leaving for France on Friday, so there’s much to do on top of the usual stuff, so we all got right up and out on our respective trails. Work will be busy today, as well.
I’m hoping […]
The oncology shuffle
So, Mother’s day saw stepson John, his very nice half-brother Patrick and daiughter-in-law Julie come down for breakfast. For some reason, my left side is just more shut down today than yesterday - no idea why. Haven’t changed drugs or anything. Linda, Casssie and I walked about a mile together, and it was harder […]
The wind in the garden
It’s a bright, cool today and there’s a brisk breeze blowing as I sit in the garden sipping coffee after a 2-mile (!) walk with Cassie. I realize, looking closely, that my garden is kind of rag-tag compared to past editions, but what the hey. Truth is I’m kind of rag-tag, too.
Friend Kevin McKean is […]
Good tools
These Corona garden tools came home from the Roger Reynolds nursery 2 weeks ago: they’ve been a great help. The long handles mean I can sit on my rolling garden cart and reach the centers of the planting boxes.
The tools are an accomodation to current limitations: they help me get work done more easily than […]
Just in time
It looks like our garden lettuce will be ready just in time for dinner with friends Cathy and Mike tomorrow night. I think we’ll do the classic French salad - a leaf or two of lettuce drizzled with vinaigrette - with herb-crusted rack of lamb, and baby green beans. We’ll serve a Drouhin ‘05 Pinot […]
(Therapeutic) blogging at lunchtime
I rarely blog from work, even during breaks and lunch. Given my schedule and the amount of time that gets sucked into public transport, dealing with fatigue et al., I try to work straight through on Adobe office days, lunch hour included.
However this morning, sweet spouse Linda, sensing I was a bit down, gave me […]
Rough night
One of the miserable things about cancer is the variability - just when you get in a groove of coping, something changes and knocks you out of kilter. Even with our meds hacking - which has made for a bit rougher week (and it’s a particularly full one at work, at that) we’ve been […]
Another schedule
So the AM schedule today, looked like this:
6:00 AM up, start the coffee
6:15 breakfast: cottage cheese, fruit, Peet’s coffee
6:30 take meds: lyrica, kepra, dexamatheson, famotidine, altace, Omicron, senior lite vitamin, a couple of OTC meds
6:35 walk Cassie
7:05 shower
7:30 work email, assignments etc.
8:30 pack up head to Menlo Park train station
8:55 express to San Jose (finish […]