Scattered Thoughts . . .

I'm in the process of building a few different things around the house.  Depending upon how I feel and how the weather is at the time, determines which project I attempt to tackle each day.  Today, was a beautiful day and we were both feeling quite well this morning so we jumped into some labor intensive projects outside.   First, we tackled the easier project since we are already quite far behind with this particular thing...  spring planting in our wildflower gardens.  We took care of six wildflower flowerbeds and planted new seeds.  This was the easier project and it was finished in a very short time.  It was nice to finally get the wildflowers planted though.  We still need to buy some plants for our window boxes and the three larger planters on our deck but that is typically a "June thing" anyway.  The wildflowers really needed to get accomplished because it is getting late in the growing season. Then it came time to tackle a heavy and very labor-intensive pro

A few months ago, I wrote about Sheila and I discussing whether or not to continue Sheila's cancer treatment.  The treatment was making her daily life miserable.  Worse yet, this treatment was to continue for a total of ten years.  Ten years of absolute misery didn't seem like a very wise option to choose for someone who is supposed to be recovering from her second bout of breast cancer with lymph involvement.  After some serious complications, ER visits, and a significant deterioration in her quality of life, we both decided it was time to stop treatment.  As one would expect, Sheila's oncologist wasn't too thrilled with our choice.   The oncologist recommended some further testing to determine risk factors with and without her continued treatment and we felt this would be a good idea.  In the back of our minds, even though Sheila's quality of life absolutely sucked during treatment, we always knew we would second guess this decision to abort her treatment i