Leif enjoying breakfast this morning: Black Raspberry Jam on homemade bread and milk. We bought him new Leify-sized glasses - mainly in part because I was tired of handwashing the metal ones he'd been using prior!
The cucumber jungle.
It creeps out from the trellis and into the driveway...
the watermelons creep on to the driveway from the other side.
I've got to be careful when I park the car! :)
First beans on this plant...I think this one may be a Christmas Lima.
The only other option is a Thai Long bean...and this looks like a larger pod type, not a long Thai Bean!
I can't tell which plant it's on, because the plants are all intertwined, both on the ground and up the trellis.
The Thai Long beans have really shot up and have big dark green glossy leaves.
I've yet to see a bean produced from them, but they're Thai, so they like the heat and humidity of Summer here.
Well, at least, that is what I'm hoping.
Our days have been in the upper 90s, and "feel like" 104, according to the weatherguy.
A Cancer Update: I went to the Dr. this week, and they don't like how the skin graft is scabbing. If it scabs too heavily (it is heavily scabbed now), the graft won't take. I told them the reason it was scabbed was because the bandages weren't sticking at all. The last time I was there, a nurse put a bandage on it, and by the time I got to the checkout counter, a man was telling me my bandage was off. The counter was all of five steps away where the bandage had been put on.
Anyway, the nurse this time didn't believe me that bandages weren't sticking at all.
Then she tried to put a bandage on my ear.
4 attempts later, I think she believed me.
She finally switched up the type of bandage with a roar of frustration (okay, maybe that's a bit of literary license on my part) and it stuck enough for me to get out of the Dr. Office.
Either way, it's funny the things that have changed due to this.
Not things you'd expect, but odd little things.
Like the fact that I can't use my ipod.
And I can't sleep on my right side, or even lean that way when I'm sleeping on my back.
Funny the little things you don't think of and take for granted everyday.
But soon, I'll be healed up and good as new.
And then I'll be rockin' that ipod.
:)
I'll leave you with a Leif story:
Jason and Leif took a bike ride as I was putting the final touches on dinner.
They rode out to the airport, and then turned to come back, riding alongside the runway.
"Daddy, go faster!" said Leif.
"I can't go faster, Leif. I'm pedaling against a headwind." Jason said, and explained about headwinds.
"Wind?" Leify called out into the breeze,
"Can you stop slowing us down? We need to get home to Mommy and dinner!"
:)
I like the biking in the wind story. Leif, I miss you.
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering whether burn netting might help, for dressing your wound. It's a stretchy tubular mesh that can hold dressings onto hands, elbows and other parts that can be hard to apply dressings to, or where you want to/need to avoid placing tape. Not sure exactly where on your ear the graft is, but burn netting could possibly help.
ReplyDeleteAlly - the wound is on the lower back portion of my ear - on the skinny edge kinda behind the lobe. And then it curls around the back part of the ear toward my head. A very awkward spot, but I'm sure one of the most common for skin cancer!
ReplyDeleteThe last nurse I saw gave me bandages that finally seem to be doing the job (yay!) (she also told me to wipe the surrounding area with alcohol to clean up the polysporin oiliness that seemed to be the culprit in the non-sticking-ness, and that seems to be working, too.)
If they start failing, though, I'll be lookin' in to that burn netting - thanks!