This blog may come slowly, paragraph by paragraph, as our treatment goes on. Jennifer is here to participate. She is looking especially spiffy with a special headpiece of daisys that My Rebecca wove for her. She is celebrating completion of her set of twelve treatments. Good job!
The day is moving on. Things come and go and those things have more or less weight to them. Some things are totally subjective, totally as seen from this very chair and some stuff is more universal. But we navigate and make our way onward. I realize that is very vague but some things are more confidential than others. But the mission of the Cancer Commandos is to push the fun lever as far forward as possible at any given point and we do a mighty fine job of that.
Here we are the next day. But could finish up our report from Wednesday. Jennifer had a good buddy, Heather, roll in and we did some errands on the mainland and had dinner at a seafood joint on the water. Yum. So then back to the Rock (Vashon) and debriefed and got home. But briefing wise our partying was more low keyed at the hospital. They hardly knew we were there really. Part of that was there was
some heavy cancer info to sort through. The kind of stuff that is inevitable but tends to throw a wet towel on the good times. And the wine ration seemed to have a certain calming influence and actually helped to lower my blood pressure numbers.
Tonight is Shakespeare in the Park here on the Rock and tomorrow back to Seattle to get our fanny pack chemo pumps off. Anyway, there are some pics from the last few days that you will like:
After while crocodile, love, Felipe.
Wanted to get over to walk this morning, but it’s been a quirky couple hours and now it’s 9:30. How does that happen? I love the photo of Jennifer. I love reading your blogs every day. I hope the last chemo session was ok. See you soon. dana
Dear Dana Dear ~ isn’t that photo a hoot. That’s an interesting choice of words as the darn owls were really hooting and keeping this camper awake. Glad you enjoy the blog. Please pass on the address to anyone that may benefit or just enjoy our quirkiness. What do you think about getting salmon licenses so we can fish off the shore or canoe. We had dinner at Anthony’s last night and it seemed like there were folks out trying. Saw one commercial boat also. Ask our recreational officer what she thinks. Yup, Felipe.
Good Morning Felipe. I was thinking about your line “Things come and go and those things have more or less weight to them…” and then remembering what you wrote earlier about attitude, and a teacher of ours who encouraged us to practice holding all things “lightly.” And it is a practice – seems like Cancer Commando Capers is just that a practice that helps you and Jennifer hold the heavy stuff more lightly. On the Camino you might offer someone your poles, or invite them to sit with you, share a slice of orange with them… it feels so natural to share with one another and lighten each other’s loads when we can. Your blog posts lighten our days over here at Crows Feet Farm. Thank you for you.
Ahhh Catherine. I think that you have captured the idea of what we are trying to develop. Not an original idea but maybe novel application. If we weren’t having fun we would have to run away. Yea, glad that we can lighten your load. You certainly lighten ours. Felipe.