Cancer Quilt

 Quilty

     My awesome auntie sent me the most amazing gift (besides all the love and best wishes that she and my uncle are sending).  I opened up a large box to find a beautiful handmade quilt inside and, inside a small pocket on the corner of the quilt, a card that explained the origins of this lovely quilt.
     My aunt has been going through intensive treatment for breast cancer, and she has been a champ.  At the beginning of her treatment she received this quilt from her dear friend--it was made by a large group of women, all cancer survivors, who make these quilts for fundraisers.  This particular quilt has a breast cancer theme with pink ribbon material popping up  here and there, or "Quilt for the Cure" fabric--each square is unique and flawless and made with love.  The quilt is made to comfort and encourage and pass on the strength and love of survivors.  And so my awesomely surviving auntie has passed the quilt along to me to surround me with family love and all the mojo of all the survivors who made it. 
    And MY job is to one day pass along the quilt to another person--someone I know well or someone I don't, it doesn't matter--who is starting treatment for cancer and needs that same mojo and comfort.
    So that gives me another "future thing" to be focused on--getting through treatment and being able to help share some positivity and solidarity with someone who is at the beginning of it all. 
    And that's very cool. 
    I wrapped myself up in it immediately like a giant hug from my aunt and uncle, and it felt great!
    Thank you Auntie!  Smooch!

p.s. Techno-Dinosaur so proud of herself for being able to put a picture in the blog.  There is no stopping me now, muah ha ha ha ha!

Ouchy

Just in case anyone wants to know: 

   Bone marrow biopsy...Versed is a gooooood drug.  Night night, wakey wakey, in and out, you are good to go.  Not sluggish, molasses limbs, loopy, saying stupid stuff that ends up captured on someone's phone and posted to YouTube...just "oh, was I sleeping?" BIG fan of Versed!  
   It seemed for a brief moment that I would not have clearance from anesthesiologist to be sedated...although the doctor assured me she could "talk me through it" if necessary, my happiness for the existence of well-applied pharmaceuticals was once again validated in short order.  I don't doubt the doctor's skills--just didn't want to do a whole Wild West, bite the bullet, Jack Daniels kind of moment if I didn't have to.
   So it's probably reached the high point of hurting now...which means maybe I'll pop some Tylenol if I think about it.  It's just a thing...uncomfortable, but not so much that I'm thinking about it all the time.  Not like I want to sign up to get one again any time soon, mind you, but it's tolerable.  So no worries.  Don't be afraid if you have to have one.  As long as you have Versed.