Today was my last day of treatment. I made a point of walking the track that circles the hospital before I went in. It is about a mile and they recently paved it and set up benches here and there with nice landscaping. I have wanted to do this ever since I started but something always got in the way. I was glad I did it today. I was a little sad to ( Read more... )

Was relieved during my visit to the doctor today to hear that the reason I was getting the worst pain on Friday wasn't because I had started the electron treatments (two days before that) - it was because I was having a delayed reaction to the former photon treatments. The worst side effects with radiation in some cases can come later, even days ( Read more... )

Got a bad headache during the night - behind my eyes. Usually I think that means I am coming off of caffeine so this morning when I got up I was looking forward to my tea making the headache disappear. It didn't. It seemed to move into my cheek, the skin around my left eye and my scalp on the left side. A tingling pain - a touchiness. I looked up " ( Read more... )

Tuesday - my birthday was really nice - Jan and I walked a woods path on the hill beside Lake Wilhelm and returned by way of the bike path - 4 miles in all. I kept thinking what a perfect thing to do for my birthday. Afterwards we went to Granthams and I had my favorite meal - seafood salad. Now I can't remember what happened the rest of the ( Read more... )

One of Dave's friends grew shiitake mushrooms and gave us 2 gallon bags full. I have gone into one of usual modes of eating - making the same thing every day and eating it every day. I saute the mushrooms with onions, peppers and potatoes, adding eggs, stirring while the eggs cook and then melting cheddar cheese on top. I don't season it with any ( Read more... )

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Make plans, yes, but don't have very high expectations for them. There is a saying: as my expectations go up, my serenity goes down ( Read more... )

I got the newest version of Photoshop Elements recently (15) - there are some things I like about it and other things I don't - they removed one of my old favorite effects. But they added a thing called facial adjustment - the ad says it turns frowns upside down. Which I thought would be dumb but really it works rather well - it can improve a face ( Read more... )

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