Frivolous
This has been made up for by shopping!
- A Tara Starlet jacket - the one I showed you the other day
- A Tara Starlet tea dress (this is a link to a piece about them rather than to the shop itself)
- Circular knitting needles ready for Audrey in Unst
- Several vintage copies of Stitchcraft magazine from the 1940's / 50's for inspiration
- Siri Hustvedt novels: I am reading The Blindfold and so far I don't regret it, but it is definitely creepy
- A pair of half-price Eco Sneaks in purple satin - too small so they had to go back. Drat.
Health
FL is still tired and out of sorts. His bowels are still acting up and he rarely wants to eat at mealtimes. In fact, it seems that he needs to go to bed almost immediately I get home from work, so I have a new routine of putting the dinner on to cook and walking the dog before I even take my coat off. Wellies go so well with workwear!
Then, while he sleeps, I change into "home clothes", catch up with the kids, and settle down with my knitting. Sometimes he gets up for dinner, but most often not. He usually surfaces around 9pm, just as my daughter is going off to bed. We have an hour or so of "how was your day" and then it's my turn to sleep.
Somewhat macabre but practical
FL rang the Anatomy Department and offered them his body. It seems there are two ways to do this: for parts, or as a whole. Obviously, there are issues of... ahem... freshness and condition in respect of "parts". Nobody is likely to want dodgy second-hand kidneys, for example. So he is thinking he would prefer to be used for educational purposes rather than research or transplants - along the lines of "What did this man die of?" classes for medical students.
This will also mean he won't need a funeral, as such. I have to admit I was rather afraid of trying to arrange a burial at the farm. He had drawn up a list of pals he thought might carry his (ecofriendly cardboard) coffin to the proposed site, and not one of them would have been fit enough. We joked that he might need a bigger hole so his Bearers could fall in beside him!
N.B. He isn't ready to go yet!
This weekend
- Taking the kids to see Alice in Wonderland?
- Knitting a baby cardigan - very cute so far!
- Sewing trousers - and then I can show you my jacket!
- Casting on some waiting room socks - back to Haematology for a review next week.
7 comments:
I love Audrey, I might have a go when I see how well this year's diet goes!! Its good so far but more need to go before I can aspire to such a dainty cardi! Thanks too for introducing me to Tara Starlet, both my daughter and I love the clothes.
Funnily enough we had breakfast with friends and were discussing funerals and coffins, he has helped start a fairtrade business in Bangladesh making Bamboo coffins, I quite like the idea of being sent on my way in a whicker basket!! And no we aren't ready to go yet either!!
It's a gorgeous jacket, but with my figure it wouldn't look right! Funnily enough Mike and I were only talking about the same thing last week, and decided that's what we both want, although we plan to live for at least another 40 years!!! It's never too early to talk about the big D after all no-one knows for sure that there isn't a bus waiting to fall on their head!
Just in case your not aware...you will have to bury his remains at some point. We looked into this for my mother and was told when they have finished with the body they return the remains to the family. That could be in several years time so make sure you have some money set aside for that time.
Would you believe a week before Tim was diagnosed with MM, my neighbor got hit by a bus while crossing a street.
She was in bad shape but she recovered. After they dropped the
"cancer bomb" on us I said to Tim,
"why couldn't you have just been hit by the bus?"(and survived of course)She probably got a big
financial settlement from the bus
company too.
My Dad had the "electric shock" symptoms you described earlier too...it drove him crazy! He had it all through the treatment whether his myeloma was in remission or not. I always thought it was tied to the PN..we never could find medication that helped with that entirely either, although the stronger opiod pain meds he was on helped some. He slept all the time too. I hope some of the symptoms are a bit better since the velcade holiday. Sending good thoughts to you...
When I had the rant involving the NHS website, Bernard did actually say I could get hit by a bus before then. Apparently it's so popular that according to one website 7,000,555,555,555 people die this way every year which is amazing considering the same website says that the world population in 2009 was 6,800,000,000!
Fancy getting the bits back several years later that's a bit of a swiz.
You are the only person I know that could possibly have injected warmth and humour into this subject successfully. I really admire you for dealing with everything as you do. :)
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