African Violets and Gesneriads: Visiting with Allison! and Precious!! and Robert!, 1 by begoniacrazii

begoniacrazii wrote:
I think this will be my only post today. First thing, update on DH. His distress over this Globulin proceedure was not really necessary. It seems that people with his kind of Leukemia do not produce this part of the blood (a protein that finds the germs causing us to be sick and act like a tattle-tale for our white cells to come find them and destroy them so we can get well). A good way of putting it is that his 'tank' is low and he needs to get 'topped off' - that way he can get over this chest cold before it turns into nasty pneumonia (which he's prone to)

It's not as horriffic as he made me think, and of course when you have cancer, you DONT want to hear that it's progressing, which his is not, at least not any faster than is has been. SO to all of you who dmailed me privately with prayers, and those who posted here I THANK YOU! So powerful!!

Now, on to Ms. Allison, my sweetheart. Lovely lady. I was honored to be a guest in yours and Roberts home for the two days, it was a pure pleasure to sit and chat and wrap pots for shipping ( doh, I didn't get any pictures of us wrapping, but now I know how and I'll start a tuturoial some day - if I can ever find my way home)

Great to see a master at work. Her set up is to be envied and I could drool for ever on all the cutie pie babies.

Precious changed her mind at the last second about coming home with me. But don't worry Precious, dogs can fly on airplanes too and you can just come out for a visit any ol' time you want to! (pssst. secret just between you and me Little Miss Precuous Joy, your mom and dad probably wont let you come spend the night with me. But that's ok, I'll call you some time!)

Allison, sorry I tuckered you out like that, but boy for me, it was so worth the time and effort do come over to your town! I loved every minute and will cherish our time always!
You my dear are a sweetie pie!! {{{HUGGGGGG}}} and some for Precious too {{{ Hug}}}


If you all dont hear from me for a bit, don't worry, I'll check in when I arrive back in Cali, but wont have too much time to post as I have a lot of plants to repot (I have removed all the soil and everyone is wrapped in plastic and newspaper) - and Sweetie pie sent me a few boxes (like 30 AV's!!! oh my goodness) of AV's too so I'll have those to unpack and I already sent home two boxes of plants that DH was sweet enough to let out of the box but they need repotting too.


If I don't get off the computer I'll miss my flight. Have a suitcase to pack and I did get all my plants packed (mostly) I'll have to juggle a few on my lap, but oh well.

Hugs to all until I am able to post again, I'll be MIA for a few days as I play catch up.
and thank you all again for you kind thoughts for my DH! Much ado about not so much (unless of course you are the one with the disease) but I thank you for all of your support!!

And Ali, a big THANK YOU!!

I'll leave you all with a few shots we took - Ali has a few too.

This one is Ali packing plants (for little ol me) and some other LUCKY DUCK DG members!