Back to St. Joe's for Herceptin

Jim and I went into Towson today to St. Joe's. I had a Herceptin treatment that took forever. The appointment was for 11:30, but I didn't get out of there until after 2:30. They were short-staffed today, and I had to wait a while before I was called in. The treatment had to be given very slowly because they were giving me a "dose dense" amount - more concentrated. I took in a book, so I was entertained. I brought the nurses some of my art work - greeting cards and bookmarks.

We stopped at Sam's Club on our way home and did some food shopping. I loaded us up with fresh fruit and veggies, which we eat a lot of. We also picked up a rotisserie chicken that we had for dinner tonight. I've tried an experiment. I recently bought a package of special produce bags that are supposed to extend the life of fruits and vegetables from 1 to several weeks, as well as retaining the nutritional value. They're reusable and each bag can be used up to 20 times. So now we have a fridge full of all these green bags with strawberries, plums, grapes, melon, peppers, and mixed veggies. Bananas too, but not in the fridge. If it works, that's terrific. I don't know what the point is, but it must have something to do with the gases that are expelled. Stay tuned.

I did some painting again tonight. I started a painting from another of my Italy photos - this one is a blue door on Capri. It's coming along, but I needed to put it aside to dry until tomorrow. I have to do some more work on it once it's dried so that it doesn't bleed through. I have hopes for this one, if I don't mess it up. I find that painting is relaxing and fun to do, even though I still don't know what I'm doing. I've been collecting a nice library of watercolor instruction books, and I've gone through all of them, but I think maybe I should go back and re-read them.

Photo: My inspirational photo from Capri.