Cancer Selfies

Saturday October 22, 2022

Good days pay for the chemo days

Cycle 3 Day 10

We're getting what's likely to be a final reprieve before the winter descends upon us, and I intend to take best advantage of it.

Back at the start of this, I said the currency you spend is the feeling of normal. We left normal behind months ago. The new currency is the little experiences I can jam into my good days. Seeing a raccoon, petting a dog, talking to someone I haven't seen in a while (or have, and want to talk to again), interacting with all of you. Little things. And I need to save up enough so I can pay the toll and make it through The Chemo Days.

A man is wearing a toque with triangular flaps that cover the ears, sitting in a reclining lawn chair

I got this hat in Peru

A man is wearing a toque, and is holding a cordless drill menacingly over two large pumpkins

I'm the slasher in a Pumpkin Horror Movie

A man is wearing a toque, reclining in a lawn chair, and holding an otomatone, an electronic musical insturment shaped like a music note

I still can't play the otomatone

A man is wearing a toque, standing in front of bright red sumac leaves A man with long green hair is hugging a black standard poodle

Bessie is too squirmy and impulsive, she's hard to take pictures with

A man with long green hair is hugging a golden labradoodle, her whole face is visible

Pictures with Annie are easy