My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer

thx for the feedback about the art. Technically I think it could be trimmed but with our city under lockdown that would mean custom framing etc & I just wanted to get something standard size, hang, enjoy. It IS giving me pause. I think I will pass. I have started looking at other art sites & realized I should just expand my horizons way more beyond an instagram ad served up to me...

BC is Canada's little success story. We *seem* to be flattening the curve. Our hospitalizations are looking good. Ontario & Quebec are looking worrisome tho

I think it will be months and months before things improve and it won't be like before

Moth, we are coming up to our curve in Ontario. There have been deaths but tragically, most of them have been in the nursing homes. There are still people passing away in one residence, last count had almost half the residents passing away. In London, I am not hearing about a huge spike. Doug Ford is actually acting in our best interest which means we are in the Twilight Zone because I don't agree with his party at all normally. In this case, I respect how he's handled things. Biggest problem I see repeated over and over is the PPE for our healthcare providers needs to come in.

We are modelled to come in at between 3000 to up to 15000 deaths. Sounds scary BUT those are models only. We also have a huge population as well. If people keep staying home, don't touch face, washing hands and wear a mask to contain your sneezes, fewer infections would occur and fewer deaths. Masks should be promoted as protecting others from getting and spreading the infection. It would die out much sooner if people actually considered doing this.

Thank you Mel. xoxo

Boo- I would hang out with you. You have a beautiful soul.

While we're at it, here I am with hair gone for the second time. I was in tears when it started to go, but now I just don't give a flip.

MJH~Your ears must have been burning beautiful lady!! Always a pleasure to see you and hear of your travels. You’re always up To something. You and your precious grandson. It’s so good to hear of a long walk in the woods. That’s the problem anymore, there are toomany people and not enough space. We are over top Of each other. Look at those bigger cities. Scary stuff.

Morning from Illinois.

Another long day of not much to do. You can only clean house so many times...I live alone. Hahahaha.

Yesterday I made a list--I am a list maker for everything. My list is titled " Things to do in COVID lull". What I mean is, this summer maybe the virus will decrease some. But I believe it will return with fall weather again, like the seasonal flu and colds. And then I (we) with lowered immune systems and no vaccine yet will be stuck at home again. So during that time of lull, if that truly happens, I need to do some things. For example, number one is haircut !! I also need to get oil change and maintenance on my vehicle. And go shopping for clothes, and some house stuff (bookcase). Do eye exam and get new glasses. Etc.... The list just made me feel better some how. Control. I don't know.

Hugs to all of you. I do wish we could all meet in Mel's Living Room for real. Plop down on the couch with a soda, coffee, or wine--soda for me. And laugh. And shed a few tears too. Alas, I am alone in my home still.

Hi Mel.

Well my house cleaning is not overly strenuous. Run vacuum in a couple of rooms---no moving furniture or anything. Dusting by taking Swiffer Duster and swiping over things. Cannot get too dirty with just me and my cat. And keeping on top of things--a place for everything and everything in its place--makes cleaning easy.

Curbside pick up is ok. At least out and seeing other humans.

BooBoo~ we have so much in common When I was working J&J was my account solely for all billing and collections account manager for Fisher Clinical services . I used to visit several places for them. I enjoyed it a lot. Wish I could still be doing it. They are an awesome company. Go J & J GO!

Thank you Boo boo for saying that, I really appreciate it.

I did wake up tired from all the furniture moving and garbage runs yesterday. Plus I went to bed later than I should have due to a John Hughes marathon. Found an old disc from my computer days and I had digitized my copies of a few of his movies on it. Watched Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's day off. Lots of fun, 2 am before I knew it.

Today, have been splitting time between chores, making money online and walking. I sit when doing surveys or whatever so I set I timeframe of 20 mins of sitting then walk for 5 mins. So far, been working well. Will be doing some outdoor walking but sticking to indoors until dressed. Feeling good. That is how I am staying busy. Avoiding covid news for other countries now. What is happening elsewhere has no immediate affect, going to keep track only locally. Not going to go down the rabbit hole. Stressing about it will not protect me, will hurt me. Will look with optimism each day I wake healthy, wear my mask when in store to protect others and feel that I am doing the right thing.

Mel- Mowing going on in my neighborhood too. I have windows open for fresh air. I do not mow anymore. Before the cancer, I mowed my yard weekly-2 city lots. I push mowed. Took 3 hours or more to do. But now, no way I can do that. I hire it done. Expensive, but what can you do. Mel- You need to try to eat. Food is so important--blood sugar levels, nutrition, and may help stave off depression. Have you talked to your MO, nutrition consult? Tips for choices and/or mouthwash for mouth? My appetite is good. I just have a rare mouth sore. Constipation an issue for me. Prune Juice is my friend anymore.

Hi Candy,

I have the same questions as you do. J&J has a huge vaccine business in the Netherlands, and they also have a partner (Moderna) who can scale up production. The video has news people asking some of those questions to our CEO Alex Gorsky. I am going to assume that, like the flu which has many different strains, COVID-19 is the same. So it’s likely that once a solution is found, many companies will produce the most common strain of Covid-19 vaccine. But this is something yet to be answered for sure.

Stay safe my dear friends. I don’t want to lose any one of you to this ugly disease.

Good afternoon

My grandson came over to dig a hole for my friends cat 18 died just before dawn. She lives in an apartment and the vets were closed all weekend.
Nothing eventful here just sitting outside doing school work 6ft apart from my grandson. My husbands inside got him hooked on downtown abbey.

My squash and garlic have sprouted

Have a isolating day all.

waving to Tanya. Hello there darling!