Random Ramblings – From the Orchard of My Imagination
Autologous stem cell transplant. Oct. 04, 2023 It's way past time for an update. These are the people who have filled my life over the years. Included are some of my favorite things - orchids and pets. We have felt the recent loss of my mother-in-law; she made it to ninety years old. Left this… Continue reading Almost My Second ReBirthday
Following sixteen weeks of chemotherapy, I have given this working title to the period leading up to and immediately following my bone marrow/stem cell transplant. It's a journal of thoughts to help you understand what I was feeling and thinking. Sometimes it's also a confirmation of each step along the way to help me understand… Continue reading Autumn Harvest
Remnants of weekly infusions. The most recent blood work shows that the current lineup of chemo drugs are doing what they are designed to do. My out of whack blood levels are trending towards the normal ranges. The Mspike level is nearing zero. It stands at .06 from the latest test report. Looking at getting… Continue reading Designer Drugs
Feeling Like a Pin Cushion From the start of this cancer I haven’t been keeping track, but I expect that between weekly, and other routine blood draws, ER and hospital stay, injections, IV infusions, and the bone marrow biopsy, I have been punctured at least one hundred times. I have this great vein on the… Continue reading Pokes
06/06-Today, I need all of the positive you can send. Treatment by another delivery method with the chemo that sent me to the hospital in May, begins at 10:15 a.m. Wonderful experienced staff. Flushed my IV line and wrapped it so I don’t have to get poked again for today’s infusion. 06/07- Tolerated the slow… Continue reading Chemo Tuesdays
I have an article in the June issue of ORCHIDS magazine. It is a membership benefit publication, also available for purchase to non-members through the online shop at aos.org after distribution to members has been completed. My article is featured on page 421 under the section Judges Corner. It's about a display we installed in… Continue reading Another Publication
On a Friday Afternoon in mid-April My streaming thoughts on this disease and how it is affecting me. 04/14- I had heard it before. The phrase was becoming familiar. Multiple Myeloma. My conversation and personal consultation with a nurse practitioner friend of mine who looked at the lab results said it first. I googled the… Continue reading C is for Chaos and Many Other Things
I thought I had a workaround to recover some files I had stored on a free site that had been in use since 2009. Many of them were in a raw form and had been updated and edited multiple times since posting. However, it was another beginning point to put my book manuscript back together.… Continue reading Add Insult to Injury
Like hushed whispers, snowflakes drift. Among my dreams, this Christmas wish… Memories of a Christmas season, filled with yuletide glee. Colored lights and tinsel circled ‘round our tree. Ornaments made by childhood hands, crafted stars twinkling above. Without an abundance of material things, there was always room for love. Love for the gathering of family… Continue reading Christmas Dreams
The writer's worst nightmare. I should have known better. But I didn't. I knew I needed to incorporate a better file management system when I got a new computer about three years ago. But I didn't. I continued to save files in the same haphazard fashion that I had saved them in the ten years… Continue reading Tragedy
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