My Birthday...come and gone

My birthday was on the 10th. A low key affair since I was still more than a bit wiped out from my chemotherapy one week ago. Jeff got me a card and cake and sang me a birthday ditty of off-key fascination. Various glorious flowers arrived which certainly brightened a blah day. The weather has been full of wind and rain and storm courtesy of the various hurricanes pummeling the Gulf Coast.

Since then I have had a visit to my oncologist to learn my blood counts remain excellent...no anemia or immune impairment and my energy has returned with the sunshine. Perhaps I will have a bit more pep to use to write more in my blogs (or have Jeff do so for me). We shall see. Now that he is going later today I think I will not have it so easy around here and have a great many other things sucking my energies than before.

I remain optimistic albeit sober about my situation. I watched the excellent PBS special last night entitled "The Truth about Cancer" ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/takeonestep/cancer/about.html ). You can order copies cheaply, used from http://www.amazon.com/ if you are interested. Excellent. I especially like the roundtable discussion at the end.

For now I must try to remain in the moment and focus on the love and goodness and value I want to make real and manifest NOW. That should be true for all of us all of the time but, sometimes, it takes a shock like I have suffered to get us back to the truth?

Judy, Deep and Profound (via Jeff)

PS Edith, my friend of great wisdom, sent me this video. I mentioned to her I sometimes have trouble sleeping. Edith knows my personality and suggested I "visualize" this scenario upon bedding down for the night.