Do-Once-a-Month-Cooking

OK, so I've tried a couple of times to do a limited bit of this. It really works - if you then go to the freezer and eat the stuff.

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peripheral neuropathy

Let me try to explain peripheral neuropathy.

It seems like my fingers are numb -that makes it harder to type, and it makes it impossible to pick up a button off the floor. Right now up to the first knuckle - but sometimes it spreads up my fingers and sometime even my hands.

But at the same time, it feels like those pin-prick sensations when your hand or foot has fallen asleep. So you feel both numb and pain - weird.

The pain is small, and nearly constant - just enough to keep me from falling asleep sometimes. Of course now I have the rads burns, and some pain meds, so the neuropathy doesn't bother me now - kinda like an old joke : I can't feel the pain in my hands because of hitting my head on the desk to make a larger pain.

Well , that didn't sound like a joke even to me...

Woo Hoo!!

I had my last radiation treatment on Weds!!

I am burned, and it hurts, but thanks to creams, dressings, and pain meds, I am really pretty comfortable.

I don't have to drive an hour and a half (one way) every day!!
I have three hours a day more time!!!

I finished another pair of socks for my son (yeah, size 14 shoes!!

don't forget

I don't want to forget any of this. Even the nausea, even the fatigue, even the tingling in my fingers. I want to remember it all- the machines, the waiting, but most of all the people-the nurses dancing, the hugs, the people fighting through pain and nausea, those who have to go through this three times, the ones whose names I don't know and will never see again....

Socks for hubby

A million years ago, I knit my husband socks. But recently, he has refused my efforts. He has always said that he has ugly feet - he does have fungus in the troenails, and even six months on the medication didn't help. And he does wear out socks pretty fast. His theory about socks is to buy 8 or 10 pair exactly the same, so he doesn't have to match anything. But I had this KnitPicks essential, and it is so soft, that he finally said OK. He loves them! I have made him 2 pair so far, one navy and one in denim blues.

more sox

I saw the skein with teals and charcoal at my LYS, and grabbed it. I normally dither about purchases, taking forever to make up my mind. But this was an immediate "Well, HERE's my next pair of sox!" I had nearly finished the first sock before I saw the Kafe Fassett signature on the label. Now, I have looked at Kafe designs, and generally think they are too busy - too many colors- too much going on. But these, these are just right! I made them identical, but had to go through half a skein to find the right start place. Then the next time I went to my LYS, I found the denim/navy colorway. I may be getting more of this stuff!

Sunday Lizard

We have a lizard - and, no, we didn't do it on purpose...
and no. I don't have a picture(Any misspellings are because the cat sees me typing, and wants to check out the keyboard).

Two Sundays ago, my grandkids were watching TV, and DGD said, "There's a lizard under the TV!" But no one else saw him, and I wondered...

Last Sunday, just before the grands arrived, a lizard came into the living room and lay down in a spot of sunlight. I wanted to grab my camera, but I was only about two feet from him, and didn't want to move and scare him. When the grands knocked on the door, the lizard disappeared - NOT under the TV, but I'm not exactly sure where. Jer told the grands that he was hiding in the toybox, so they dragged everything out to look. Of course we haven't seen him again. I guess I'll wait until Sunday...