My leukemia's back.

[sourland]

Um, yes I am. But I'm married to a Scot and identify with Scotland very strongly? Does that mean something?

Like I'm cheap and stubborn?

My mother married a Scot; therefore, I am German/Scottish. I prefer frugal and stubborn.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Blooie, I totally hear where you're coming from. Sometimes the best medicine is feeling normal again, doing the regular things you do every day. I know it's a balance between taking it easy and feeling like yourself, we'll trust you to use the sense the Good Lord gave you and listen to your body. 

So, good good things here in Oregon  . Platelets are back up to 76! Not as great as I was hoping, but I was so prepared for bad news. I don't know why I'm bruising so much, but I'm way less concerned about it now. Honestly, I've spent the last week or so really thinking I wasn't going to be around a long time, kind of sobering. I was mentally cancelling chick orders, selling off birds, writing letters to my boys, you can imagine how well I've slept this last week. Now everything looks shiny and new  . 

I'm still going ahead with the biopsy, deciding between having it done here or driving to Portland. Waiting for Honey to call me back to get his input then I'll go ahead and schedule things. 

Rachael.....I won't say I told you so....cuz I didn't......but I did tell you my labs bounced all over the place the first couple of years....glad you at least feel a little better about them.....my doctors told me there really is no such thing as perfect labs for people like us.....and as I get older my labs don't get more perfect......so please try and not worry so much...and it gets in the way of living regardless of what the labs say.....

 

[N F C]

Just spreading the word of a new contest. I thought some of you that have male birds might be interested in it...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1074649/the-7th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long/5050#post_16586382

 

[lazy gardener]

Ah, the dreaded presbyopia! Welcome to my world!

Add presbycusis to that, and it makes for an interesting life! Sometimes I can't see a word I say! Hubby and I have some very interesting conversations when I respond to what I thought he said. Makes for some very disjointed conversations!

 

[donrae]

LG, I"m with you on that! I can't see, I can't hear, and even if I could I'm ChemoBrain and couldn't remember what I saw or heard

I was seriously thinking about going to the Grange and picking up some chicks today---like a practice run, you understand, for the ones I've ordered and will be hatching. Have to make sure the brooder is set up correctly, all that

. Then I had this dream about baby chicks running all over the place, flying out of the brooder and loose in the barn, then getting out of the barn....maybe my poor brain is trying to tell me to just hold off a few more weeks? I really need to butcher the rest of the cockerels to make space, I guess I need to work on that first.

Phil, I will gladly accept the Itoldyouso's

.

 

[N F C]

LG, I"m with you on that! I can't see, I can't hear, and even if I could I'm ChemoBrain and couldn't remember what I saw or heard

I was seriously thinking about going to the Grange and picking up some chicks today---like a practice run, you understand, for the ones I've ordered and will be hatching. Have to make sure the brooder is set up correctly, all that

. Then I had this dream about baby chicks running all over the place, flying out of the brooder and loose in the barn, then getting out of the barn....maybe my poor brain is trying to tell me to just hold off a few more weeks? I really need to butcher the rest of the cockerels to make space, I guess I need to work on that first.

Phil, I will gladly accept the Itoldyouso's

.

I think you're vying for the BYC member with the most chickens...remember that thread?

 

[donrae]

I think you're vying for the BYC member with the most chickens...remember that thread?

Yeah, and along the lines of that thread, with husbands and chicks....

so, chickens are my thing. Honey's thing is guns. He doesn't go counting in the coop, I don't go counting in the safe. Makes for a great marriage, right?

The other day we went for a drive and stopped at a shooting spot to pick up spent brass. Yep, this is our quality time together. We found some loaded 9mm, and some loaded 40cal ammo. Honey was all excited, finding live ammo. He was going on about how he has a 9mm, but he doesn't have a 40 and now he has free ammo for it, so he must need to go buy one. I casually said "sure, sounds like a plan"

and promptly forgot about it.....

last night he comes home with a Glock 40cal

. Uhh, aren't we supposed to discuss large purchases with each other? I'm not really upset, more surprised. He's all happy and telling The Locusts the moral of the story is...when your wife says you can buy something, buy it right away before she changes her mind. So, after they ogle the gun for a while, he tells me he didn't buy it. Huh? You stole it? I don't get it.....Well, he's got a patient who is also a gun fiend. Honey was telling the patient about finding the ammo and me saying he could buy a new gun, but he's never shot a 40 and isn't sure if he'll like one. Patient points toward the counter and says "I have one there I bought months ago. Only shot it a few times and I don't like it. Take it home and run a few through it and see if you like it or not". Wow!

I think it may have worked out well for me, cause it turns out Honey doesn't like the grip on the gun. Not saying he won't shop around, but at least he's not in a huge hurry.

I think I'll send a dozen eggs for that patient

 

[LittleLakePhil]

LG, I"m with you on that! I can't see, I can't hear, and even if I could I'm ChemoBrain and couldn't remember what I saw or heard 

I was seriously thinking about going to the Grange and picking up some chicks today---like a practice run, you understand, for the ones I've ordered and will be hatching. Have to make sure the brooder is set up correctly, all that  . Then I had this dream about baby chicks running all over the place, flying out of the brooder and loose in the barn, then getting out of the barn....maybe my poor brain is trying to tell me to just hold off a few more weeks? I really need to butcher the rest of the cockerels to make space, I guess I need to work on that first. 

Phil, I will gladly accept the Itoldyouso's   . 

I know all about chemo brain....I used to be wicked intelligent.....I could think crazy complicated....no I'm just a mere mortal....I am glad you feel better...always know you can pm me anytime....that actually goes for anyone....I still have a pretty decent head on my shoulders....love you all....Phil

 

[sourland]

LG, I"m with you on that! I can't see, I can't hear, and even if I could I'm ChemoBrain and couldn't remember what I saw or heard

Heck, that's me without 'chemo-brain'.

I know all about chemo brain....I used to be wicked intelligent.....I could think crazy complicated....no I'm just a mere mortal....I am glad you feel better...always know you can pm me anytime....that actually goes for anyone....I still have a pretty decent head on my shoulders....love you all....Phil

Never was wicked intelligent, can crazy complicate almost anything, surely facing my mortality, decent head on my shoulders, but it has no hair. Well, I haven't shaved head lately, but the Princess says I look like Bernie Sanders so I may have to address that situation.

What's a guy to do?

 

[3goodeggs]

Run for office?