Surprise!

This is week 3, the week I am most energetic and least symptomatic. I pretty much know that the week of the infusion will mostly be spent at home letting my body detoxify. The second week I am at about 50% except for the prednisone crash day. I can usually manage to work half days and muddle through with less lying around time. Then the third week I am starting to feel better, but my immune system is at its most weak point so I can't risk being in crowds or anywhere that I might be exposed to germs.

That's why Kiel is staying with a friend right now. He has a cold and cough and I can't really be around that since I am so susceptible. So I am alone this week what with Drew in North Carolina and Kiel in quarantine. Good thing its week 3! Despite having Sugar with me, it's a bit of an adjustment being by myself. True, the house stays fairly clean, and I enjoy the peace and quiet. And I do stay in touch via phone.

But I do feel a bit abandoned. That is, until I came home tonight and found a box in front of my door. Who is sending me something? I have to delay satisfying my curiosity until I have walked Sugar, but then I tear open the box. It's fresh fruit from Harry and David - a gift from my sister in Tennessee. How thoughtful! Succulent peaches, juicy blueberries, sweet cherries - yum!

I peel a peach and slurp the golden flesh and suddenly I don't feel so alone. I call my sister and get her voice mail. I chirp a happy thank you and nibble some blueberries. Happy happy happy.

What a lovely surprise!