Well...It Happened...

First I thought my hair looked thin...then it really was thin...and now I just have fuzz. It broke my heart, I cried, I wailed, I think I might have screamed a bit but as long as I have hats...I should be ok. Well...not really ok but reasonably ok. My sweet caring doctors keep telling me it will grow back. Den...well...he has always loved my hair. People always tell me I have my mom's beautiful hair...but now I think I look more like my dad...with his tiny little bald head. It's ok. I can do this thing. I can and I will!

I am vain, and embarrassed about my hair...or rather my lack of it...but I will get over it...I really will. I am at home and comfy and getting antibiotics every 8 hours and doing what I normally do. I am learning about life and the kindness of strangers and the awesomeness of neighbors who put yummy black bean soup on our doorstep and who always ask if we need anything. And another neighbor who packed up an entire Thanksgiving dinnner...in little throw away containers that we could toss...we had yummy turkey sandwiches for lunch today from that dinner.

My heart is full. Den asks why I cry sometimes for no apparent reason...but my reasons are that my heart is full of the kindnesses of others and I pray that I can be as helpful to others as others have been to me.

Hugs,

Patty

 

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Oh My!

I have been a little quiet...a little feverish...a litttle out of it because I am in the hospital. My port has to come out...dammit! Tomorrow morning...out Port out! But it will be ok!

I will be ok...I am reading and relaxing and puzzling. I just can't get to every blog for comments so stay with me please! I would miss you all...way to much if we parted ways now! Be patient with me! Give me some big old virtual hugs!

Please!

Drugs are making me sleep a lot...

Hugs until next week!

Patty

 

Surprise!

 

It was toasted cheese, French fries and chocolate puddin'...I know...I know...but Den ate half and the bread was whole wheat! Heeheehee!

Me!

 

 

 

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What To Read Next?

I think I will start this one...I had a lot of false starts this week end and couldn't focus on one book...until this one...and I am not really focusing on this one yet although I just finished the first few chapters and I will stick with it.

Today is also a day when Den wants to work on the basement...I am not in the mood for that either but he has hired a trash company who will totally carry every piece of trash out of the basement. You could not find two people more excited about this!

I feel as though I have lost a few days! I had a fever over the week end and I think I slept all day long on Saturday...maybe even Sunday...whew!

Den and I have become addicted to Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown and although we didn't realize this about each other...we are BINGE WATCHERS!

This is scary!

I am also watching a British Show on Netflix called The Bletchley Circle...it is soooo good...it's like reading a really great English novel. It's based on the lives of four women who were decoding stuff for the government...stuff that had to do with Hitler but now it's 8 years later and they are married or mothers or not married and not mothers but all of them are kind of restless. Again...kind of like grown up Nancy Drews...but done in that amazing British style and filled with danger. They interconnect so I watched the first four...I am prepping myself to watch the fifth one because one of the four meets the killer face to face...yikes!

Ok...l finally feel like me again! But I am tired...I was able to get a manicure and a pedicure today from my good friend My...we hug we cry she makes my toes and hands pretty. It's so relaxing but when I come home I am exhausted...I still can't get past the exhaustion, how cold I always am and my sad sad hair...I will never be able to fully talk to you about that...I am so vain...you probably think that's the bad thing about me...and it is...I am trying to prevent the fever that might come tomorrow...if I get a fever tomorrow I go to the office 5 minutes away...if I get it on Sunday...it's the ER! I am already freaking out!

I have been writing this post since last Friday!

Hugs,

Patty

 

 

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Books...Weekends...Football...Books!

Finished this but I clearly don't know how I feel about the ending!

Just read this...in Prevention...

 

"There’s a strong connection between reading and longevity, says Sublett. Reading is an enjoyable way to stimulate your mind, plus it may actually help you live longer, according to a study from Social Science and Medicine. Individuals who read books for up to three and a half hours or more per week were 17 percent less likely to die over 12 years than non-readers. People who read even more than that were up to 23 percent less likely to die."

We can never stop reading!

Don't you think we have this one? I am so propping a book in Den's hands every night! And forcing him to read for at least 15 minutes before he falls asleep...he can...but he tends to fall asleep!

Books again...some week end options...

I find myself choosing lighter books over the weekend because of football. I want to read while we watch college games on Saturday and NFL games on Sunday. But it has to be lighter reading because Den does not watch any game quietly! So...I am pondering these...but the only light one is the Jenny Colman one...

An almost selfie! No cooperation from Roxie!

So...have an awesome weekend!

Hugs as always...

Patty

 

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Whoa! I Failed To Blog Yesterday!

But...I had a really good reason...I can barely put this book down! You might be wondering why...so...here are my key points! I would do anything you can to grab up this book!

 

1. The chapters are relatively short and once at the end of each chapter you feel compelled to read on!
2. The writing flows!
3. This author writes a captivating story!
4. The characters...are so pathetically flawed!
5. One character is so stupid and selfish that I want to scream...notice I am not giving anything away!

The only problem with this book is that I will be in a slump about what to read next!

This...or...

Perhaps this?

 

What we are cooking this week end...because...

this past week was a tough chemo week...it's not the chemo side affects of that show Thirty Something? It's more achy, bitchy, crying...when everyone around me is telling me to be happy...but I had a double dose of the treatment and my little body suffers! This past Wednesday I had a really small short treatment and so far I feel awesome...and I want to cook, bake, sauté, dance, and fire up my new slowcooker! So...I am making...

...easy bread from Port and Fin...filled with Goat Cheese, Caramelized Onions and Spinach!

An Italian Minestrone!

A Slow Cooker Mexican Lasagna from 100 Days Of Food!

And to make up for my 'roid rage I am making Den my Grandmother's sautéed chicken that he loves! It's sautéed in one pan with carrots and potatoes and shallots and is totally yummy!

So...that's my Thursday! Hopefully you are having a great one!

Hugs,

Patty

 

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