Hi all. The wife wanted to get a second opinion on possible surgery so yesterday we drove out to Roswell to see the surgeon who first removed the lump in her butt and found out it was cancer. He looked at all the info including the CT Scan video and explained that even if he was able to remove just the lump in her leg the wound had a good chance of never healing and agreed with what her cancer team had told us. Needless to say she was pretty let down.
She also has an appointment scheduled Monday (again in Roswell) with the surgical urologist she was seeing before but has decided to do a phone consult instead. The three hour trip down and three hour trip back was too much for her.
So now we're working on getting ready for the final time and trying to do as much together as her condition will allow.
Her cancer doc was also supposed to refer her to hospice care, still waiting to hear from them.
Hope she has just the right amount of meds to stay comfortable but gets to see some beautiful sunsets, listen to music she likes, but best of all, she has you, Mr. Ringel. Give her all my love.
I remember when my husband passed quietly, I was thinking about how much love I had for him. I wrote an essay of all the good things he had done with his life and handed it to our minister at church. He read it word for word as his eulogy sermon. When we retired and came home to Texas to be near loved ones, it never occurred to me I'd be bidding him farewell in 6 short years, and he had such problems our church attendance was sparse, but our new friends loved hearing about his life and all the good things he did in years past for the church and community we lived in Casper, Wyoming. I was pretty proud of him and felt lucky to be his for all those 44 years of our life together in Wyoming. It's been 4 years since then, and I've been busy with quiltmaking for 3 years, but this year, have a garden.
It rained today, and the garden really loves the rain. The pepper plants are about 12" tall, and the tomatoes are just about 10". The corn looks like this (I'm using a picture I found on bing search, but this is exactly how the corn looks now:
And the green beans look about this high:
I've got a lot of flower seeds still in boxes, because it was too wet to plant them earlier:
Except I put them in little seedling starter sets of 24 per container, that break down into 6 each of
sunflowers, violas, forget-me-nots, and stuff. The sunflowers I haven't checked because it rained really hard out there, so maybe in the morning they'll have sprouted, too, except they will likely be a lot bigger than the small stuff. I forgot to mark the boxes, so I'm not sure what's what at this point.
