One last fling for Relay for Life. Just when you thought it was safe... Our church's youth group raised money for their Relay for Life by parking flocks of pink flamingos on lawns. We could have paid for an insurance policy to keep from being "flocked", but didn't, so someone paid to load our lawn with pink plastic invaders. We could also now pay to have them come back right away and remove the flock, but we kind of liked having the company for a few days. The neighbors were a little worried that maybe we had finally snapped, but I think that they were just envious that they didn't have flamingos.Last weekend was Memorial Day, and I used the opportunity to not only goof off from blogging (sorry to keep you hanging if you were looking for the post for last week), but to finally catch up with some household projects and some home computer upgrades. Something you learn when you get cancer is that the rest of the world continues on its merry way, whether you have cancer or not. The lawn continues to grow, the weeds still come up in the garden, and the plants that you bought a few weeks ago when you were feeling pretty good still need to be planted. A long holiday weekend is just what I needed to get started with a few things that have been long started but gone unfinished. The lawn is cut, most of the garden weeded, a few more plants have more permanent homes, and the pesky leak in our bathroom shower now a smile on the plumber's face. And there was still time to take a couple of restful naps, which I truly enjoy.
This week's marker number was 7.9, so we're still holding steady for the fourth round in a row. I'll get another CT scan on Wednesday and a chance to look it over on Thursday to see if we're making any progress on the size of my critters. I have a new lotion for my rash that my nurse learned about at a recent conference - it's called Cutivate, which I think is just so.... cute for the name of a medicine. It is a topical solution of the same active ingredient in the allergy medication Flonase (which is a nasal spray). The active ingredient is a relatively mild steroid (steroids - there they are again), which relieves the swelling and itching. I've used Flonase and thought that it worked pretty well as an allergy med, so this is an interesting new application. The lotion seems to work fairly well on my face, so perhaps my modelling career can resume :) . Just another little advance in medicine.
