With September comes the hope of some decent weather and a time to plant some bulbs. I am not that excited to get the soil ready, but willing. My irises have been crowding each other out for months, but I finally got the energy to dig them out and separate them. They were really enmeshed, kinda like a dysfunctional family! Time to spread them out and give them room to grow. I ordered some new ones from BHG, talked my oncologist, Dr. Palchak, into sharing the cost. He's an avid gardner when he's not killing cancer. In fact, we share the thought that crab grass is kinda like the beast, only 3 ways to kill it: poison (chemo), removing it (surgery) or finally burning it out (radiation.) And, it only takes one root (cell) to start growing all over again.
Anyway, these new irises bloom more than once in the year. Cool!
I am still part of the clinical trial and have a treatment today. So glad the side effects are minimal. I really feel fortunate I am able to participate in this, not only for the opportunity to help others by putting a new weapon in the arsenal in the fight against ovarian cancer, but to keep the beast at bay in my own body. Thank you, Doc, for being the person to make this available to me and others like me. You're the bomb!
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