Avi came home for the weekend to visit, and it was great to see him. He dug my garden and planted veggies for me, and brought me a poster about the biology of cancer, showing all of the various proteins in a cell. Pretty interesting, although rather incomprehensible at the same time. Our bodies are kind of amazing things and when you get down to the very smallest bits, it all seems like another universe. Are we just a set of chemical and electrical interactions? Where does personality, self and soul come in? Anyway, you can see that I have time to ponder these things while not engaged in the more mundane. Fatigue is still my biggest issue, but I am trying to walk a little and also do a few exercises so that I am not a total limp blanket when this is over.
I am feeling mostly okay, eating as best I can, and have not lost more than a pound or two which is great. Again thanks to everyone who has brought food! This Thursday I will return for chemo, and will have two more chemo treatments after that. Originally I was going to have just one more hefty dose, but because I was experiencing some tinnitus (ringing in ears) I will be doing it in smaller increments. I still expect the hair to be gone by the end of this, but it may be easier for me to tolerate overall (or not, who really knows?)
I have learned that we have two squirrels at the bird feeder, a male and female, and she seems pregnant. Soon we will be overrun with baby squirrels. The other day I slipped and called it the "squirrel feeder," which I guess in fact it has become. I occasionally do still see some of the birds...
I finished Pride and Prejudice, and have now travelled across the English Channel to France, and even farther back in time to the 11th century, to read "Rashi's Daughters" which I am totally immersed in at the moment. There is actually some Talmud in it, which is fascinating. Luckily it is a three book series so this should keep me occupied for a while.
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