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@sheba2011

Sometimes the medication is worse than the disease itself. They are probably giving him higher doses of the chemo than what you experienced. Trust me, when I say, that on the good weeks when there is no chemo he will eat better and will begin almost human again. The family may want to look at the medical marijuana to help with digestion. A friend of ours is used it and she is now cancer free. She mentioned that though she wasn’t hungry it helped with digestion when having food and beverage. Hopefully, it might be something that can help your BIL. Keeping up the resistance and sustaining oneself is so difficult when you are not feeling well. If this works, it will help his immune system fight against the “C” word. There are also other things on the market as well.

What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
Song by Barbra Streisand

What are you doing the rest of your life
North and South and
East and West of your life
I have only one request of your life
That you spend it all with me
All the seasons and the times of your days
Are the nickels and the dimes of your days
Let the reasons and the rhymes of your days
All begin and end with me
I want to see your face in every kind of light
In fields of gold and forests of the night
And when you stand
Before the candles on a cake
Oh, let me be the one to hear
The silent wish you make
Those tomorrows waiting deep in your eyes
In a world of love you keep in your eyes
I’ll awaken what’s asleep in your eyes
It may take a kiss or two
Through all of my life
Summer, winter, spring and fall of my life
All I ever will recall of my life
Is all my life with you

@shoelady60,

We are near 100 degrees at 8:20 p.m. Shizzle! 🤣 All I am going to say have a great
evening and enjoy that time on the Patio I am loving mine. 😎🌹

Enjoy and don’t forget Mom Friday. 😎🌹

Somewhere
Song by Barbra Streisand

Someday, somewhere
We’ll find a new way of living
We’ll find a way of forgiving
Somewhere
There’s a place for us
Somewhere a place for us
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us somewhere
There’s a time for us
Someday there’ll time for us
Time together with time to spare
Time to learn and time to care
Someday, somewhere
We’ll find a new way of living
We’ll find there’s a way of forgiving
Somewhere, somewhere, somewhere
There’s a place for us, a time and a place for us
Hold my hand and we’re half way there
Hold my hand and I’ll take you there
Somehow, someday, somewhere

@sheba2011

You are funny. However, guess we are both on the same path. I stopped purchasing last week. That is, until Andrew. I did add the Healthy Hair and that should be arriving in a day or two. And next week there is a sale at Amazon which I enjoy watching. If there is anything I need or cannot live without I will send to the Cape. At least there I can give my neighbor a head’s up. However, Amazon is offering next day delivery and if not, two days is all I need. LOL I ordered 3 items from Walmart. Received one of the three. The number 2 item was delivered to the mailbox and right now is no where to be found. Either it went back to the post office to be delivered to my front door or it was picked up by someone else. The 3rd item is not in stock at this time. So I am waiting to see if Walmart was able to do a reorder. The last one is most important. It’s anti freeze. Yes, I know we won’t have frozen pipes in the near future. Yes, I know our winters are mild. We learned from our neighbors that it is imperative to put it down everything where there is water. This is so we won’t have critters that slither or the ones that look for cheese. The smell of the anti freeze should keep those slithery snakes away and the water rats as well. I hope………..I get the shivers just thinking about it.

Club Sheba

@oodiebom,

I am so sorry for your loss. I do not like saying this but my BIL lost 40 pounds in one week
and is having Chemotherapy as we speak in Maryland.

May your family member RIP. 🌹 Oodie stay cool you and your husband. Thank you for thinking of my girls
they had a great time.

Tomorrow is your father’s birthday may he RIP! This will be my first Father’s Day without
my father. I love him with every fiber of my being. This too shall pass.

@shoelady60

Thank you for your kind thoughts. This cousin was a smart individual but had health issues from the time he was quite young.. Just feel so sorry that he never was able to really enjoy life and do the things that we take for granted.

I actually took yesterday and today off from working. Will continue tomorrow sometime. We will be making a trip to Costco to look at the indoor fans for our laundry room here and then for our home North. There are a couple of rooms that have the screens on the inside and you use a crank to open the windows. Our A/C will not work, so this is the next best alternative.

Eating out last year was impossible. All the restaurants in our area were closed as were the hotels. We sometimes enjoyed having breakfast out, but there was no place to go until recently. This was also the reason we didn’t head North sooner. I am still apprehensive dealing with staying at various hotels/motels and eating out. Because of my food allergies we do not stop at the fast food areas. We are lucky though, that a brand new Costco opened and we will probably make a stop for gas and food if the construction does not interfere with the timing.
The route we take is very scenic. However, we cross our fingers that the weather holds since we will have a downward and curvy Interstate through the Carolinas and Virginia as well as dense fog. That occurred on our last trip heading South. Trust me when I say we could not see anything in front of us. I think we crawled at 5 mph. Both of us were scared out of our minds. Therefore we are keeping an eye on the weather patterns.

Love hearing about your family outings. What’s in store for Friday: Oops, that’s tomorrow already. YIKES !!!

@taci

Thanks for the condolenses. He is in a much better place and hopefully in better health than he was on earth. Sadly, we will not be attending the funeral. It’s just too close to the time when we do leave and head North. His brother is looking at using Zoom for the out of towners.

Taci, I just heard that CA. will be in triple digits or close to it. In Florida, we see that during the summer months along with the high humidity. Last year was our first summer in Florida because of the pandemic and returning home to the North was out of the question because of the closures of restaurants and hotels in our path. Our A/C people were here in July and made us turn the thermostat up to 76/78 degrees. I actually balked at this. In the North we put the temp down to 65 during the day and at night 62. But I was told if I didn’t, we could be looking at a $400 bill each month. So, I listened. I set the temp to 78 and put the fans on just to circulate the air. Believe it or not, the house felt cool when we left and when we returned as well. During the night I leave the temp at 74. Could not believe the bill for each month. It was two figures even with the fan.

Going out last night for take out was a bit scary. But the food, 5 stars. And best of all, we are still enjoying the left overs today. Hopefully, we will find some outdoor places to enjoy while on route. If not, take-out.

@oodiebom

🙌🙏 for you, your cousin, your dad and family.

Glad you enjoyed your meal. You took that first step and it was worth it. No way could I have lasted as long as you cooking every day, lol! We did a lot of takeout last year. It made me feel good trying to help some of the businesses stay afloat. Many menus were limited but still good.