I had been gone for 5 weeks, and my fountain wasn’t working when we had a power outage while I was in the hospital. I hadn’t been filling the bird feeders. It sounded quiet and sad.
Then I returned home to be with my son for the month, and he fixed my water fountain, and I began feeding the birds. They’ve flocked back to the yard and filled it with birdsong. I love it!
Working on final edits, then off to my beta readers. I wrote this book about 10 years ago, so glad to finally update it and get it ready for publication. 🙂
Of course when I saw the hummingbird sipping from the nectar, I didn’t have my camera. But they love the flowers.
Had a great sleep last night finally. One of the medicines I’m taking strips magnesium out of the body, which can cause muscle twitches. I didn’t know that. I’m taking one magnesium pill, but have to get magnesium infusions when I go to the hospital because the horse pill isn’t enough. The doctor said another pill would cause severe cramping and nausea so he didn’t want to start me on that until I was off of some of the 31 pills I’m taking now.
Thankfully, I’m off 6 pills as of tomorrow. Yay!
I started working on Wolfish, a Halloween tale, but I’m having trouble communicating with my cover artist. I’ve purchased several expensive covers from her but she’s unresponsive. 🙁
So we were told we have off today and tomorrow from appts. Yay!!! Friday we have to go in. And I looked at mychart to see about the weekend appts and they’ve been cancelled. Yahoo!!! Also Monday’s. So for sure I have them on Tues and Wed and another day, but that’s great news.
I actually walked 1.31 miles yesterday, so that was great news too.
I’m waiting for my son to get up before I start doing laundry. He still has jet lag from coming in from South Korea. We have a bunch of little things to accomplish, like fix my computer as it’s still not working. But my son has been a great help.
I’m off to get some chores done and then get to writing.
I want my main computer fixed so I can work on more edits on Tashama and Wolf Heir, but while I was in infusion yesterday for 2 and a half hours, I wrote the beginning of the Halloween wolf story I wanted to write. It will be a novella.
I love gardens. They’re an extension of your home in a lush, green, and colorful way. I experiment all the time with planting plants in various locations, and I finally figured out that the gerbera daisy I planted in this spot comes back every year without fail. Sooooo, I’m going to try and plant a whole bunch of them in this spot to make a colorful bed of them and hopefully, they will come back. Why didn’t I think of that before?????
I’m still feeling weak. I know it’s all the little stem cells growing. And my blood counts aren’t normal yet. But I’m eager to get there. I’m eating a little better. But the cupboards and fridge are bare after me being gone for 5 weeks.
My son is here and we’re going to the grocery store after drs. appointments today.
Hope your day is filled with gardens and beautiful things.
Hummingbirds love these tubular flowers. Mine are now too shaded and I’ll need to move them to sunny locations when I’m able to, probably next year. These are my daughter’s.
Hope you are all doing well. I’m tired, but getting better as far as eating anyway. 🙂 My son arrives from South Korea today to take care of me for the month of September. So I’m all packed up to go home.
He just ignored me as I got as close as I could to take the picture. Love them.
So I haven’t been posting. I’ve had long appts every day or when they’ve given me a break, I’ve been resting. Still don’t have a lot of energy. It’s all from the stem cell transplant and the changes my body is going through. Plus, I can’t eat very much still.
That means it’s hard to build up my strength.
In the meantime, I finally felt well enough to work on edits for Tashama and Wolf Heir. I just wish I could feel better physically. I’m not very patient. 🙂
I have off tomorrow, yay and my son comes in tomorrow night to take over care giving for a month.
Back at the hospital. We have to go every day for a couple of weeks or more. I have to give blood every day and check my counts. I needed potassium and magnesium and electrolytes. I’m hoping we can do some diet supplements to pick up those counts so we don’t have to be at the hospital for so long. It’s 5 hours or longer for now.
About another hour and we can go home. I’m tired. I thought I would be feeling my energizer bunny self, but instead, I’m fatigued. BUT they told me to eat all day, not 3 meals. Which makes sense. I can barely eat anything during a meal. I would do better eating small amounts all day long.
I have one more pill and then I’m starting the afternoon pills. I didn’t bring them with me. *sigh*
One of my daughter’s dogs had diarrhea and the kids were taking care of that in the middle of the night. Except hearing the dog bark a few times, I didn’t really hear anything. I’ve been enjoying taking the dogs out to the garden several times a day. I have to bundle up more, can’t be exposed to sun.
I had my granddaughter reading her library book to me. Then we went out with the dogs and I had her pulling down a weedy vine. I would have loved to help her. But I can’t touch gardening for months.
We’re going to repeat that today. I’m also bringing over some of my math workbooks for her to my daughter’s house.
I went into the normal range yesterday on neutrophills and the doctor said I was fully engrafted and didn’t need to worry about the count any further. I asked when I could go home and she said Wednesday. Wooohoo! Mentioned it to the nurse this morning and she said Wed or Thurs. I’ll see the dr in a couple of hours.
My WBC was 2.9 and went back down to 2.8, but I didn’t have a shot yesterday to boost it so it’s all good.
I feel so much better. My throat is back to normal. Still have some mucusitis, but so much better. I didn’t cough or clear my throat all night. And I’m swallowing much better.
But this morning they gave me 11 pills to take, many of them horse pills. It takes forever for me to get them down because I’ve thrown them up before.
So I’m hoping that I’m going home tomorrow. Wish it was today. 🙂
I have to have 24/7 care at home for the next 80 days so my son is coming in for 30 for the month of Sep. My daughter will take care of me for the rest of Aug and part of Oct and then a friend is coming to stay with me for the last 3 weeks. Can’t wait to go home!
Fairy in the garden. They don’t mind that my dogs and I walk by and disturb her. She just resettles in her favorite eating spot.
Well, the chemical burns on my skin are starting to heal. Yay!! And my throat is still sore, but feeling a little better. So maybe I’ll make it through this after all. I was beginning to wonder. But I threw up 3 times yesterday, so that part hasn’t settled.
Hope you have some dragonflies eating your mosquitoes too.
