It's Sunday, and I woke up with a burst of energy--very welcome after the past week. I felt myself sliding toward depression: I missed a therapy appointment (didn't check my calendar) on Wednesday, then on Friday I skipped my treatment appointment. (I did call and reschedule for tomorrow, so I wasn't all the way down into depression--where you're there, you can't even move.)
Erasing Barry
The first thing I did this morning was go through my blog and delete all my posts about Barry and his daughter Rose. Turns out "Barry" wasn't real. Just someone playing games with me.
Boycott October 2008
Then I got the mailing list of people who have sent donations to my blog from PayPal and packaged up Boycott October buttons for them. So those will go to the post office tomorrow, and you should have them in a few days.
If you've sent me a donation, no need to do anything else: I will mail you some pink buttons from 2007 and the new noire ones for this year.
What I'm Eating
My appetite has been rather capricious, which I'm blaming on the Tykerb, my new miracle drug, but I also realize that I have to eat as well as possible, just for my general health. So I've been cooking more, and also making sure that I drink enough water. Most of my prescription drugs have that little symbol on the label that means "drink lots," and it's hard to do.
I tried a squirt of lemon juice in water, as a couple of my blogging friend suggested, and that does help the water go down.
Today, I am making a batch of Japanese curry, to eat over rice. It smells wonderful--the whole house smells like curry. Yum!
I buy the base for the curry at Uwajimaya, the Asian grocery store in Seattle's International District. The brand I get is "Vermont Curry," beacuse it's made with vegetable oil rather than lard. I'm a vegetarian, so I don't eat lard.
Traditionally, Japanese curry has meat in it, but I just put vegetables--potatoes, yams, onion, and mushrooms in the batch I'm making today. When I have it I put in firm tofu or atsu-age, a deep-fried tofu that I also get at Uwajimaya. No tofu in the house, so I think I'll hard boil a few eggs to go with the curry for protein.
Seattle Weather Report
It's gusty out today. Branches are blowing off the birch trees in front of my house, but the air also has a spring-like sweetness. Once I eat some curry for lunch (it's almost ready!) and take a shower, I'm going to head out with Connie for a long walk.
He's been a bit out of control lately, and keeps trying to dominate me, which I know means that he needs more exercise.
Hoping both boys will be home this evening to help me eat the curry. It's one of Older Son's favorite foods, so I think he might show up.
@ Jeanne Sather 2008.
Down here, in my neck of the woods, it was also quite warm both yesterday and today. I definitely could feel spring on its way! My daffodil stalks about about 3-4 inches high now and the tulip stalks look about 2 inches high. I love the Northwest and watching both the early awakening of various plants/flowers and also how different things pop out at different times (first the crocuses, then the daffodils, then the tulips, then the rhodies/irises, then the roses, etc.). Summer is ultimately my favorite time of year, but spring is a close second!
Posted by: Dee | February 10, 2008 at 05:51 PM
Hi Jeanne: Read about your blog while waiting at my oncologist's office. Love your energy and you no nonsense approach to your disease. I'm a five time survivor and am also currently on a combo of Tykerb and Xeloda. Seems to be doing the trick.
I've been looking around for blogs concerning breast cancer and will definitely be back to visit this one.
Posted by: Liz Kreger | February 12, 2008 at 06:50 PM
Incidently, its flippin' cold here in Wisconsin. Got dumped with 20 inches of snow last Wednesday and just got nailed with another 8 today. Will winter ever end?
Posted by: Liz Kreger | February 12, 2008 at 06:51 PM
Liz--welcome, please do come back. Sorry you're having to dig yourself out of all that snow!
Jeanne
Posted by: jeanne | February 13, 2008 at 09:41 AM
Hi
Received my four buttons yesterday - two of the pink and two of the new ones. What would the cost be to print a few thousand sticky notes with the new button design and the words..BREAST CANCER is not a ... etc.?" We could paste them on shelves all over our areas.
Ellana
Posted by: Airedalelover | February 16, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Hi Ellana--I was going to get some stickers printed in time for October with the same (black) design. Maybe you're right and I should add the words "breast cancer." It might be too subtle as it is.
Good idea. I will work on it.
Posted by: jeanne | February 17, 2008 at 08:43 AM