General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...For Tuesday, March 7, 2006 =^..^=, 0 by daisyruffles

daisyruffles wrote:
Morning all.
Didn't get to post last nite about my father.
Ended up going to a gardening meeting and didn't get home until late.
They had lots of plants from the speaker for sale and I was a good girl. Didn't buy a thing tho very tempting! The prices were outrageous! For a quart size pot, all were $10 and up. The hellebores were gorgeous but they wanted $20. No way. Don't have that kind of money.
They say new colors are coming out in hellebores. Like one was a orange with red center. Very pretty. Then another one was white with bicolor red tips and it was a double one too. I didn't know they had double blooms so it was so pretty. Wanted but couldn't buy it!
So the update on my dad. Not good news at all. His PSA has soared since July 2005 up to 679. Today he is getting a CT scan of the whole body to see where the cancer has spread to. Apparently the doc. couldn't feel anything in the prostate so figures it is spreading elsewhere. Didn't get much answers for all his nasty symptoms, like weakness, tiredness, not eating due to naseuous and horrible taste in his mouth. Doctor says the cancer cells could be doing all this.
Aren't doing a bone scan since he doesn't have any pain, which I am very thankful for. I hear bone cancer is so so painful to go thru and he doesn't need that.
So we shall know more tomorrow from the CT results.
If you could all have known him, he was such an energetic and smart man. It is so hard to see him feel so lousy and be so sick in such a short time period.
He has always been there for me. So I want to be there for him.
So as he says, he may be at the end of his road.
So life is difficult right now.
Keep good thoughts and prayers for him, for at least he won't suffer too much.


Dcat, hope your testing goes well today and you can pork out later tonight on good healthy food, hehe. I have been to Cracker Barrel in Arizona once and I just loved the food!
Maria, love that bread and thanks for sharing.
Sarv, Maria is right. Forget the housecleaning for a bit. Enjoy playing with your computer. The more you do with it, the better you will get at it.
Mary, congrat. on you making the horse team. Sounds like a good team to be on and with.
Sheila, a new kittie? Oh how fun for you and Sammi then. Go for it!
Susq, hope son gets to finally get to eat real food. Teenagers need their food to survive on, even if it is junk food.
Hope all get well from all the colds and flu. Think SPRING!
Posted here is a picture of my front yard last weekend. My bulbs are coming along. So wanted to show a picture of my upcoming spring here in Oregon. Enjoy!
Carol (DR)