Tuesday, May 2,  2017

Chemo Day..... and the last one of this particular cocktail... and I feel a post coming on.

They give me  many anti nausea meds (steroids) before I start my treatment, wait 1/2 hour... then more steroids mixed into the IV's that are administered with the "chemo" through a catheter that has been implanted into my chest.

All this make me a Chatty Cathy for sure...I notice I speak faster, louder, and am not beyond telling the same story more than once...

But I have energy...... I walked for 20 mins this afternoon after my treatment...

Kevin said he would make supper, and was planing on using the leftovers from chicken baked with 40 cloves of garlic.( so good, you must look up the recipe). While I was out he took any remaining chicken off the bones,put it in a cast iron pot at the back of the stove, and had a good 3 cups to work with. When he was in the basement cold room, looking for potatoes,  Chance thought the chicken was for him, and gobbled it down! He is a tall dog when he stands on his hind legs, reaching the back of the stove is not a problem.
 We had to find a plan B for supper. When in doubt there is always a great meat sauce, and pasta.

Back to the chicken carcass .... I feed the Ravens, and there are many around... really BIG guys...it is a super way to clean out the 
fridge...
So I gathered up the carcass, some stale bread, some sliced ham that should have been eaten a few days ago, and offered up a feast.

 I place the food  on a high platform that the dog can not reach and call the Ravens. It is probably just as well that I can't add a sound file here but, they do hear me, and usually show up in about 5 minutes.. There is alway a sentinel or two around, to sound the alert should anything interesting happen... like food or danger.

Two or three calls is usually enough, but today the steroids kicked in and I probably called them 10 times.... it is a harsh call and there I was, in the middle of the back yard,with my bald head and cawing...loudly.. I am sure the neighbours wondered what the Hell was going on this time!

P.S    Chemo is doing the job, the lump is much much smaller, and all is going well......

M