Gift's lift my spirit

I'm not even going to feel bad about getting gifts in the mail because they have pulled me through some pretty awful days. I got a package on Saturday but it had been a bad night and I wasn't feeling good at all so I put the box aside.

Today I felt much better so early this morning I opened it. From the address on the box I new it was from Debby. (http://myblog-nannysplace.blogspot.com/ ) If you follow her you will remember the outfits she put together for her sister...classy, each having just the right accessory. The cute bright gift bag held a very soft straw hat. Not the kind you would do garden work in but the kind you wear to pull an outfit together. I just love it...Thank You Debby.

Of course she didn't stop there. She included a bracelet of pretty blue beads. I just bought new jeans and a yellow top and seersucker jacket in blue and yellow. My outfit for next weeks infusion has been pulled together!

I've noticed most of the women at the cancer center dress poorly, hang a rag on their head and their body language says they are sick. I have no idea why they want to look like this. I go once a week. Each time I go I dress for the appointment. I think it makes everyone a little more cheerful.

You can see how nice the bracelet goes with with jeans.

Hair...all gone

Well the new do didn't last long before hand fulls of hair began to fall out. Here is one of my caps...spider is Thanks to my friend Kathy!

New hair do

It's time. Hair is starting to fall out and there is nothing I hate more then working around cooking with bad hair. I've been cutting it a few inches once a week to help me deal with looking at the new short or no hair look.  Today I went from this to this.........

Spring....makes me feel so good!

Yes Rita, it's time for an up date. I love the new hospital and the nurses are GREAT. Of course Chemo is not for the lame or weak so tonight is one of those nights where I'd like to fall apart and have someone just rub my body and brush my hair.

For the past month I've been fighting a bacterial infection that won't allow me to even eat dry crackers so this week it's top priority to win that battle.  Lost 15 pounds this week because of it and had to have 2 units of fluid today. The blood work is a mess so there won't be any Chemo for 2 weeks.

By the time I got home today I was feeling light headed so I took the blood thinner and went to bed. An hour ago I woke up to a computer print out on the seat of my walker. It was from the Lancaster Heart Group....Your blood work came back and the number should be at 2.5 but is at 4.5. DON'T FALL ... DON'T GET CUT...DON'T TAKE THE BLOOD THINNER TONIGHT. CALL US FIRST THING IN THE MORNING...REPEAT...DON'T TAKE THE THINNER, DON'T FALL and DON'T GET CUT. EAT GREEN VEGGIES TO BRING THE COUNT UNDER CONTROL....BROCCOLI, ETC.

All weekend I didn't feel good. Your body tells you when there is something wrong if only you listen to it. Tomorrow I'll be eating lots of greens and probiotics.   They tried to make light of it so they told me I was going on a "puppy" diet.....rice, lean beef and banana's.

Now I love pretty things and in the very near future I won't have hair. I decided to balance that with neat hats and fancy ear rings. I've never worn any ear bobs other then one single pearl so this will be a dangle, sparkle event at age 70!  Just a little fun.

In the middle of all this mishap, my friend sent me a package of real sparkle. I gasped when I opened the package....for me? Oh wow how beautiful!  I'll be adding photo's when daylight comes. It sure doesn't matter if I live a week or a year, someone didn't look at that fact. She just looked at the woman who needed a little cheering up........Thank You Kathy! I just feel so special every time I look at the bracelet on my wrist. My infusion team who are all very young will be green with envy over the OWL mirror!

The hard part of having Cancer is that everyone looks at you like you have become Cancer. I'm still the person I was back in November. I love getting the flowers and candy but it sort of shows how people are feeling...give her something she can use up in a week since we don't know....I'm still sewing, I still have commitments to fill. This package made me feel like a woman again...so pretty!

Yes Debby, here is my addy:  B. Gibson  526 School Drive, Fredericksburg, Pa. 17026

Awful month and still winter!

So many mistakes have been made. I've been treated really bad by doctor's and nurses. Hey people...I'm a person and I'm still alive.  No one seems to care as long as Medicare is paying life is good for them.

So I decided to start from the beginning...new doctor's, new hospital. The hospital in Lancaster, Pa. is new. It certainly doesn't have the doctor's with the same high experience that Philadelphia has but it seems when people are trying to get noticed and need more patients they behave a lot better. When you have Cancer and are facing death kindness is more important then care as far as I am concerned.

I had my first visit yesterday and will be going once a week until we get things going.

This is the new hospital

I did manage to finish Dave's wool quilt top and am working of the doll quilts so I can get them in the mail.

Thanks to all of you who have offered to send me things I might need. Right now just getting the item's finished that I have promised is just about all I can handle for now. 

I'm hoping I can now give up dates as the treatments start. Thanks to everyone for being here.

No up date to give.......

Once again I ended up in the hospital. I have an infection so the port and Chemo hasn't happened. I don't really have an up date for Facebook or here. This cellulitis is not responding to medicine. That's about it for now.

Cellulitis

Well once again I spent last week in the hospital. This time it was the Cancer Center for the Cellulitis. It was so bad in my legs that I couldn't walk and it had also turned up on my belly. IV treatment helped but I'm not sure if this will be the end of it. This morning my legs are once again so swollen I can't bend my knee's or ankles...guess we'll see as time goes on.

I'm on the list for March 17th to have the port put in my chest in the morning and get the first installment of Chemo that afternoon. The oncologist told me the drug they have to give me will make all my hair fall out. Looks like I'll be getting my summer hair cut early.

I'm still plugging away at making Dave's wool quilt. I'm so close to having the top put together but it's not a project I can do in the hospital so I'm hoping I can stay home long enough to finish!

I do have hand work to do on the "Get your Mrs. Claus on" project. That project has to get done and in the mail soon. I'm also beading cotton caps I bought to wear.

I've been getting some pretty gifts from friends. I hope to get some photo's together to post. Everyone has been so thoughtful!  I even got false eyelashes and aqua nail polish!