Still unremarkable…

…and that’s a good thing to be!

Unremarkable is not a word I would have liked to have heard in association with me.  My individuality has always been important to me, I have never felt a need to follow the crowd and am comfortable with not conforming to many people’s ‘normal’.

That has not changed with this experience however, I have learned to be delighted to be classified as unremarkable and normal by my oncologist Dr Alexander! We saw her last week and my markers continue to be in the low 20s which is considered normal. That means the tumours are still sulking and failing to make progress… another positive negative ?

In other news, we are remodelling our very grandly named Secret Garden.  It’s actually not at all secret! It’s at the front of the house and when we moved in, it was the fenced in vegetable garden. We moved the veg garden to the back because we wanted to do more and it became a place to sit.  We now have a deck where we sit out so we hardly use it and decided to make a change.  The plan is to make it more like a secret garden which of course excites me. Inspired by Cadence (my cousin Nicole’s 9 year old daughter from Canada who spent the weekend with us along with her grandparents, my auntie Joan and uncle Herman) we are going to find a space for a fairy garden and we have already planted three trees rescued from the sick bay at the local garden centre. There is still loads to do but it’s an exciting project for me at least… Phil may not agree since he’s doing all the work and interpreting/adjusting my plan to make it work ?

Here’s a ‘before/just started’ photo, I’ll update you on our progress.

Talk to you soon

Lots of love Mand xxx