Because it has been stressful for a few weeks.
How stressful???
Well, shingles...stressful. Even though I've had the vaccinations.
I feel like the damned commercial
"Shingles Doesn't Care"
Pretty stressed before John started the radiation and chemo...and then the tiny blisters and itching started...around one side to my back...and itching doesn't do this justice. OMFG. Like 1000+ ants crawling beneath your skin.
Nothing compared to scratching open the blisters...now they burned like several circles of hell!
It has been a couple of weeks now...most are drying and scabbed and hopefully healing...but damn.
Anyway...pretty sure I'm going to survive.
Now...a third of the way through his treatments...John is beginning to have a bit of the fatigue...dry mouth...and basically chemo-brain fog/feeling off...that is associated with chemo and radiation.
He is eating well...continuing to exercise three times a week and has shortened his bike rides but is getting out almost daily.
The best thing is that he is maintaining good spirits and a positive outlook/attitude.
Hoping by his birthday and Christmas this all will be like a bad dream.
Tina and I, had our Sisters Day brunch yesterday...and hoping by November that Lisa will be recovered enough from her surgery to join us for a Thanksgiving Pitch-In.
Made homemade vegetable beef soup...with T-Bone steak meat! Also a Boule of bread with butter and Banana Nut Muffins.
I found a Lindt (Big) dark chocolate with sea-salt bar for her early Halloween.
She brought Chocolate Pudding Shades of nail polish and gave us both Chocolate manicures!
Shaped my raggedy nails into pretty ovals...kind of want to put an "M" on one of them...lol
Chatted..and, of course, delved into politics.
Being the political animals we are.
We've both already voted early...everything done but the counting.
Early turn-out looks promising...although probably not in our state.
And we've agreed that the champagne needs to be popped when Beto wins and Abbott loses...which seems fairly likely.
This year's candidates seem to fall into The Good, The Bad, the Ugly...and the Clinically Insane.
Speaking of which...
Halloween is upon us...it's practically here!!!
John's neighbor Chris' display.
and Chris...
Jimbo...who was attending the parade as a Leprechaun.
And more spooky stuff...
Really???
Banned from the pumpkin carving contest for life...
But Fall has peaked here...
and the muted browns of November are coming.
Several of the more colorful Maples are still ablaze...but even the Cottonwoods and Sycamores are starting to shed ginormous brown leaves.
And don't even get me started about my Black Locust out back....which morphed from greens...to bright yellows and oranges...to muted orange and browns...then its six-sectioned leaflets all fell in a tiny flurry...and now it will remain bare until Spring.
My Daffodils and Muscari tucked in waiting quietly until April's warmth beckons them forth.
As E.B White once called it...
The Resurrection
Getting ready for the Steelers-Eagles Game. Not particularly because I follow either team...but because the Eagles are currently 6-0 and damn!!!
Also since the Colts have benched Matt "Don't sack me again" Ryan and moved Sam Erlinger up to starter....I'm going to watch today and given them one more chance.
...don't blow it...
Love you all,
Carla and The Sofi-Cat
Okay...the Eagles are now 7-0 and Jalen Hurts is amazing! Beautiful team...and wouldn't be surprised if they make it way into the playoffs...maybe even SB material!
A bowl of veggie soup and soon to catch the Colt's Game and see how Erlinger does.
Okay...Erlinger looked great...particularly in that 2nd half.
You know who LOST us that game...by one point
Frank "No balls in the Red Zone" Reich
Irsay...dude's gotta go.
So pissed off I'm throwing in laundry...packing the dishwasher...and might stay up for the Packer's-Bill's Game just to cleanse my palate.
And nothing makes me sleep like a rock better than watching Rodgers lose...lol!
We won...we won...we won...
Goodnight!
