Surprises from Friends Far and Near and One more Treatment in the Past

Christmas cactus blossom

I love the bright colors of this plant's beautiful blossoms! So I picked it from my earlier pictures of the year.  The plant has been blooming a couple of times a year and the loping blossoms are artistically intriguing.  Having the colorful flowers in my yard and in my home are especially pleasing to me.  I am so grateful to my dear friends and neighbors who are making it possible this year by watering, planting, weeding, trimming, mowing, etc. for me.  They remind be of the old childhood story that I loved of "The Elves and the Shoemaker".  They, like the elves in the story, seem to come in the night, do their work, and are gone before I can see them.  I am grateful and richly blessed.
This week was treatment 5-only 7 more to go.  It has gone like most of the others of this round.  I get really sleepy during and after the treatment.  I come home, eat something, and sleep for a couple of hours.  Then I feel pretty good.  This week I went to Walgreen's to get some reading glasses I have been needing.  ( I am pretty sure using my phone so much these last few months has made that necessary.  When my cataract surgery was done, my eyes were 20/20 and I didn't need them.) Then I went to the grocery.  I hadn't been doing those things. I was really tired when I got home and Shawn put things away for me, but it was nice to do them.  I find that what the doctors have told me is true.  They used the term fatigue.  I say weak. What is, is that I can't do very much before the well is dry and I need to rest and very often feel sick if I don't sleep.  However, I am very grateful that I feel so much better than I did during round 1 of the chemo.  I am able to get a number of small tasks done and enjoy family, friends, and life more.
Thanks again for your love, prayers, cards, emails, and acts of kindness.  This week I received two surprises a card from a high school friend I haven't seen for a long time and a call from a friend of about 20 years ago.  What precious gems!