My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer

elderberry

Hi, all you lovely ladies. I'm back. I thought it has just been "awhile" since i was last on but — wow - 2023. Really?!! 2023?I am really happy to see so many familiar names, still actively posting. I actually went back to my last posts, then looked for names. I am so very sad about the ladies we have lost.

My last PET in March gave me another "all clear" . I wish that for all of you. I only have to do bloodwork every six weeks instead of three, but I continue to get Herceptin/Perjeta every three weeks. I turned 75 last August and felt kind of down. It used to be, I turned 50 and would think well I probably have thirty years before I turn 80 and fall off the twig. Then it was 60 (20 years) …….now "Will I get more than five years?" I have to remind myself that I was given a death sentence in 2019 but I am still here. Count your blessings as they say.

I have given up trying to mow our back yard and my husband has mobility issues (balance) so I don't want him doing it. We've hired a yard service and are getting it mowed weekly (April-June) It's the first time since we moved in nearly forty years ago that the back yard always looks tidy. Scruffy but tidy. We have major water restrictions here so lawn watering is strictly prohibited. So the service may soon be mowing weeds and kicking up dust. We are allowed to water flowers, if it is handwatering. And vegetables. I am hoping we don't have a lot of wildfires to contend with. Last summer wasn't too bad here. We didn't get much smoke coming from other areas in the province, or blowing up from Washington State. I had had plans to turn the very small front lawn into a wildfower meadow but I may have to shelve it. I was going to put up a sign stating "Wildflower Meadow In Progress" in case someone decides to squeal on me for watering our nearly bald lawn.

I am playing with acrylics and am taking a on-line course. I am also trying to get back to sculpting and needle felting.

Overall, I am feeling well. My energy is pretty good for an old lady. I walk every day and am planting up what I hope will be an attracive flower bed at the front of the house.

My DH got a pacemaker in December so we are now a couple who share some form of implant.

Billie, the cat, is dong well too..

I'll come back later — but not three years later!!