A "Stunning" Spring

 Now where did I leave off..

 (Yesterday one of my children glanced over to see what I was writing about. They shuddered when they saw that last post: "that was such a year!")

The fleeting green hue meant spring was on the way.

an interesting rock found on one of our walks. The pink item is not a butterfly, but a flower

While the Dr was on vacation, we Googled head and neck cancer... now we know why doctors always tell you not to google things.

We spent a lot of time stunned. But we can't stay that way for long and we had a house to build. 

 

And the laundry must go on.  

By now we were up against our building permit expiring. We were able to get an extension that reached to Autumn. 

Even though the house wasn't near ready, we bought a refrigerator. We were changing our diet to as close to anti-cancer as we could get, and the RV fridge just couldn't hold all the produce. From this point on we changed to an almost all-organic, mostly vegetarian diet. Huge amount of veggies, salads, and berries were on the menu. 

I say "mostly" vegetarian, because although we did not give up meat, buying organic, grass-fed meat is spendy. We just sprinkle it on our salads-- individual steaks are out of the question!

We eventually added back grains, but it has been a wild ride food-wise. Organic food can easily be double the price of conventional, and not always easy to find, so it has been more stressful to shop. Even the thought that this is much better for my family is not as comforting as it should be when I am unable to buy or find what I need for dinner! 

By the end of the month, my husband was almost in surgery. Oddly, just before the surgery, the surgeon couldn't find the lump. It was...gone? He was too nervous to go exploring and told us to get a scan. My husband got some socks out of the experience but not much information. Later the scan revealed enough further in to warrant a specialist.

 Stacks of rigid insulation.

And guess what! The new specialist surgeon didn't hold out much hope for something benign, and scheduled another surgery. Then he went on vacation.

As always, to be continued!