Better

I was actually done with my 2:00 pm oncologist appointment by 8:15 p.m. tonight.
I had prepared a lot more things to do while waiting.

However, I did get to walk outside for an hour.
Lovely day!
And I checked in with a cousin and two aunts by phone.
After I came back to the office, I read my A Mystic Garden, Working with Soil, Attending to Soul book for a while.

In the meantime, Nicole, the art therapist arrived in the waiting room and invited patients to come with her and participate in projects. I tried out the stamp pads, but mostly I talked. (I was the only one with her.) She had some very insightful questions.

By the time we were done, it was time for my appointment!

Dr. Malviya said my test results look good.
- In response to the high MCV score (refers to size of red blood cells, a deficiency of maturation), take folate (folic acid) and vitamin B-12. So we bought some on the way home.
- Don't worry about the high eosinophils score.
- Regarding the hernia, it will get worse in time, but for now, just keep wearing compression/elastic over it.
- As for the swollen legs, the longer (thigh-high) compression stockings are better than the shorter (knee-high) ones.
(If you ever see me trying to adjust all the stuff under my clothes, please pardon me. Something is falling down, or turned in and jabbing me.)
- Keep exercising, and exercise more.
- Come back in four months. (The routine: with a CT scan a week prior, and a blood draw a week before that.)

So I am doing well.
A good day.
Thank you.

"What a slow process it is to learn that an essential part of working, in a garden or in life,
is to let what is happening happen!
Of course, we must do our part,
but equally we must allow ourselves and our circumstances to simply be,
to evolve without force."
from A Mystic Garden (from "Autumn", p. 82)