Mother Nature Is Wonderful

I never cease to marvel at Mother Nature.  As you know, due to my circumstances this year I have not been able to work in the garden at all.  I was very unhappy over that fact.  However, due to the work Mike and I have put in over the last few years, Mother Nature has rewarded us abundantly even though the garden has been neglected.

Yesterday we did manage to plant up the front garden tubs and put up three hanging baskets.  Just that small effort tired me out.

I have had something worrying me all week that I have only shared with a few people but it is part of the journey I am on so I will share it with you all here.  A few days ago I found a strange dark brown patch on my affected breast. The edges were slightly raised.  I knew that there was a possibility that it could be a skin cancer particularly as I did have a cancerous lump on the outside of my breast apart from the internal tumour and I was told I was "high risk" because of that.  You can imagine the state that I have been in.  Luckily I was booked in to see the nurse at the oncology clinic this morning.

She looked at it and felt I had nothing to worry about.  She could see I was not convinced, not completely at ease, so she called in a senior colleague.  This colleague immediately told me I had nothing to worry about.  Several more had appeared overnight.  These are radiation burns from the treatment and she has seen it often before in people with sensitive skin like mine.  It does not happen to all but my skin has always been tender.  She told me that the affects of radiotherapy do not peak until fourteen days after you cease the treatment, so I am likely to get even more strange brown patches. After that, given time, they should fade although I might always have some trace of them.  Can you imagine my relief?  I truly was scared for a few days.  So, hopefully I can put it all behind me until October when I see the surgeon again.  Praise the Lord.

The soreness and redness have also not peaked yet but I can deal with that now that I know everything is o.k. The tiredness must be endured for some weeks yet.  All I have to do now is (hopefully) settle on the Tamoxifen.  Fingers crossed.

Leo had his second jab/shot yesterday.  Next Wednesday he can venture out into the garden for the first time.  We will be glad because he sees the dogs and us going out there and is now doing his best to find a way into this strange new world.

Anyway, I have gone completely off the point here.  I started off by talking about Mother Nature and how nice our garden is looking considering it has hardly been touched since last October.

So I shall leave you with some photos that Mike took earlier today.

Well, I have fiddled about on here for hours.  I tried to make a slideshow of the flowers like I did of Leo yesterday but it would not have it this time. Spent ages doing captions as well.  Such is life.  So I had to cut down on the amount of photos I have put on here as it is laborious doing them all one at a time.

Mike is emptying out all the old plants from the tubs and tomorrow we start planting, I shall only be able to do some but him indoors has promised to do most of it.  They forecast Thunder for Saturday in these parts so it will be good to get things planted in time for some rain to give them a head start.

Love

Thanks to my dear friend Sugar for the signature.