My Wife seems to be doing good …for now

My Wife has been feeling a bit better, at the moment she is not bed ridden, she has been able to be up and move around the house, she is able to breathe on her own without oxygen for extended periods of time (6 hours so far), she felt well enough to cook supper tonight.

And what a supper it was! German sausages, beer battered onion rings, a veggie medley smothered in melted cheese and freshly baked homemade butter buns! My Wife can Cook! oh how I have missed her cooking, I have been the chief cook and bottle washer for the last 4 months, it sure was nice to taste her wonderful cooking again, I really porked out too, I am a meatasaurus, I crave meat, all types of meat, but one of my particular favorites just happens to be my wifes german sausage, I confess I eat it by the pound! I have a thing for veggies too, especially veggies smothered in melted cheese!

Now my wife isn’t cured of her cancer , nor sadly will she be, but she is doing remarkably well, I am amazed at how well she manages her day considering she is on quite the drug cocktail to keep her pain free, she takes Oxycodone twice a day, Morphine three times a day and valium three times a day, that’s just her pain management regime, she also has to take a stool softener, a laxative (because the pain pills block her up) an anti nausea medication and a needle full of Fragmin ( a blood thinner) daily.

How she is even conscious during the day is beyond me! never mind the fact that she gets up and can walk a straight line and make a meal fit for a king .

She is having issues with her potassium levels though, they are too high so she will be getting even more medication to combat that as the levels she has put her at risk for renal failure or a heart attack, this is a side effect of the type of lung cancer she has, it’s rare and called Synovial Sarcoma, it’s usually found in the limbs and rarely in the organs.

She has to be very careful of what veggies she eats as well as what fruits, potassium is her enemy right now, I never was one to watch labels at the grocery store, but now that my wife has become ill I have started reading labels very closely, which means I don’t always get to eat stuff I love, but it’s a small sacrifice if it means keeping my wife alive and well.

Today was a pleasant day, we (wife and I) spent a couple hours sitting at our picnic table enjoying the sun and watching the birds, she likes Robins and Starlings and Tree Swallows, 3 species we have plenty of out here on our little piece of paradise on the prairies.

well it is almost 10:30pm here, I will stop here for tonight, peace be with you all, remember to express your love often and never take tomorrow for granted .

Butch
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Random Thoughts and the Law be damned!

One of my projects last month was to replace our old worn out commode (circa 1980-ish), with a brand spanking new one (which I surely did), see the old one just plain wore out, I tried in vain to salvage it by putting a brand new low flush tank on it (apparently you can not buy a new none enviro/low flow/ econo tank anymore, even from used hardware stores like the re-store), anyway the new modern tank just failed 40 ways from sunday, it just didn’t have enough oomph to flush the old commode , so it was out with the old and in with the new….. which involved 2 people to install,and a very gross wax gasket replacement (we shall skip the gory details and sum it up with …. it was fart knocking NASTY !!)

My Wife was in the hospital having chemo when I undertook this swap out, it was to surprise her with a commode that was a tad taller (no more knees up around your ears while sitting on it) , and most importantly… a commode that actually flushed! (no more hauling a bucket of water from the tub/shower to flush), I even fancied up the new commode with a seat and lid (plastic) shaped like an oyster shell ! and yep she was surprised, so much so the first time she sat on it she discovered her feets barely touch the floor, and she learned if she stayed on it too long her feets fell asleep ….have you ever seen someone try to walk with both feet gone numb/asleep?? … lotsa laughs , her being sick or not, that right there was funny stuff!! , no worries the new commode also got our son too!! not only did both of his feet fall asleep, so did both legs!! he looked an awful lot like a drunken chimpanzee trying to walk, and ohhh the squeaks and squeals and the panic stricken look on his face as he flopped around with his pants around his ankles was PRICELESS! I nearly passed out from laughing so hard! … so user beware, you need to be around 5ft10 or taller to use my commode, if you are shorter, well your feet and legs just may fall asleep if you sit too long! as for me? I’m 5ft10 on the button and I have no issues lol

What to do with the old commode? I decided to save $5 in gas and not take it to the dump, instead I turned it into a lawn ornament/flower pot,

My Wife absolutely forbade me from putting this out on the front lawn ( I dunno why? I think it’s nice!), so to avoid her wrath, I placed it between the back deck and back step, so when you come to our house, this will be the first thing you will see before entering our house! Everyone who has been here gets a chuckle and tells me what a neat idea that is (like I need further encouragement)…you should see my plans for a home made hot tub, just need a fire pit a claw foot tub and a leaf blower!! ( bet ya dollars to donuts that my wife will absolutely positively and most assuredly refuse to let me build it ! )

So that’s enough of that, lets move on and Break the Law !

I’ve been reading a few Cancer blogs, following more than a dozen folks on twitter who are or have battled cancer, even donated to a couple who were raising money for alternative therapy for Cancer, specifically Cannabis oil.

Now I have been Googling the hell out of Cannabis oil for cancer treatment, been researching the good reports and the bad reports, the medical and otherwise and have concluded that hey, it is a natural product, it certainly can NOT hurt a person, and maybe it might help my wife in some way, cure her? I don’t know, ease her pain? most definitely yes, side effects? a calm relaxed happy feeling, a serious case of the munchies, and sleepiness … I can live with that!, she deserves to be calm and happy, she needs to gain a few pounds anyway and she does need a good sleep!

Now I’ve looked for places locally where I might acquire some of this oil legally, but there is nothing anywhere in Saskatchewan to be found, so I looked on ebay, I actually found a steady supply from Germany, however I don’t know the producer and have no idea how pure, concentrated it is or if it’s spiked with anything, or even if the product is what the seller claims it is! That’s a lot of $$ to gamble , not to mention how far up shit creek I’d be if Customs or Canada Post ever opened the package, so I have come up with a safer more practical idea that will get me all the Cannabis oil I could ever want for my wife, a nice steady safe supply.

We own a nice size chunk of land here, we have quite a few trees and shrubs in and around the property, we also have a few old buildings and best of all no one ever tresspasses on our property, I can acquire a hand full of seeds and quietly plant a couple here and there on our land out back and just leave it to nature to let them grow, I figure I could probably grow around 10 plants at a time maybe a couple more, but not together like drug dealers or grow ops do, just space them out randomly , a couple here, a couple there, a couple over yonder.

I must confess I do have a colorful past and this is not exactly new to me, many many years ago while living in Calgary, a friend and I stumbled across the very spot where the city police buried all the pot plants from all the grow ops they raided….. needless to say we hauled out over 100 lbs out , and that is where I learned to make oil from the plant.

Now fast forward to the present time, my idea is this, I will grow my own supply for my wife, I will cook it down to the Cannabis oil , and go to multiple drug stores and shopping centers and buy your basic over the counter pain medicine (aspirin,tylenol, etc) in capsule form, empty the capsules of the medication and refill the capsules with Cannabis oil! I won’t be selling or distributing any of it, so if I do get busted it is a simple possession charge , a slap on the hand here in Canada) and I’d lawyer up and make a medical case out of it , end result is any charges getting dropped.

That’s my plan, and I am going to make it happen, in the long run it’s well worth the risk and it’s cheaper than buying it from people I don’t know,and this way I have total control of the quality (meaning it won’t be spiked with anything ) just pure 100% Cannabis oil.

I will do absolutely anything for my wife, and if it means breaking the law to provide her with a medicine that may help her, then yes without hesitation that is exactly what I will do.



Guess that’s all for now, remember to express your love often, never take tomorrow for granted, and be kind to others, Peace

Butch
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