I am doing so well on the days that I do not receive chemo that they are letting me have a daypass for today (Thursday, Day#4 of 5). I don't know all of the details yet, but they will let me go home for the day to return tonight. I don't get any medicines or IV fluids on Days 2 or 4, so I just sit here in the little hospital room or go downstairs to walk around. Lately, I have been taking advantage of this to walk around campus, to see the gardens in full bloom, and to visit the Duke chapel. I do my workout on the recumbent stepper machine, but I really enjoy getting outside for those walks even if they aren't exactly aerobic.
I am sitting in my hospital room right now, drinking a chocolate milk, waiting for Holly and the team to arrive. After the team goes over my labs and listens to my heart and lungs, they'll probably let me go for the day. I don't mind hanging out in here, reading, writiing, etc. but it is nice to have the option to go home and come back. And when I come back, I'll only have one more day of chemo with doses at 11am and 11pm. That will be good.
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Wish I could've seen the Duke gardens w/ you - so glad you could get outside! Ironically, heavy rain here has put a hold on adding new plants to my "rain" garden.
Have been thinking of your lovely Ashville garden, its bounty of the sweetest volunteer tomatoes, luxuriant rosemary, and kingly phlox making enough seed for a thousand gardens. Wished I could've gotten more crabgrass off the top of the hill. I used those weeds as a way of meditating on the destruction of rogue cells, leaving room for healthy ones to sprout.
Thinking of you and HJ daily.
Hi Jill--Thanks for making the garden look so nice. I tackled the crab grass on the hill, but it took Teresa's mighty old Sears lawnmower to do the trick. Of course, the crab grass is only slightly daunted as I did not take care of all the stems and roots which stretch to China.
Love your metaphor! Love you-Holly
When i'm meditating i always think about a place like this. And today, "traveling" on the web i found your blog and this picture.
Thank's for making my "vision" real.
I hope you get better soon.
God Bless You and contratulations for your positive way of life.
Kisses
Cristiane
Pernanmbuco - Brasil
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