Thanks for the update, Dougster ! Don't worry about boring us by re telling your adventures...Some of us are so old we love to be reminded ! lol....I'm just about down to that one book library, myself... If I eat too much sweets I get canker sores...Years of using salves, etc. on them...Now days I just cut out all sugar and they never need medicating...have had them since early school days at least...Glad I finally figured out the sugar connection. Doc says it has nothing to do with a family history of Diabetes....What do they know.....Lots but not all. Sis had Lychen-Plantus ...bad sores... Have considered growing the potatoes as you mentioned, but have never noticed a potato rooting up the stalk as tomatoes will...Will try your method..but thinking of using some small size spare tires...stacked..have read that will work..OR preferably an old laundry basket..Supposedly the vines will grow out through the holes in the sides...taters will stay hidden. Sounds like it would look cool...Have also seen shopping bags made from old T shirts by cutting expansion holes all around it..how would it be to cut one in slits here and there...Fill it a bit with dirt and hang it up..Keep watered and the vines should poke out through all those slits?...I got Miracle Grow garden soil that has fertilizer in it for 89 cents with a $3 off rebate { 30 lbs, I think} at the hardware store..so not much ventured...Now to wrestle that old holy t shirt off my hubby ! Mean JneT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:28:04 -0500 Doug Crim <[email protected]> writes: > Hello Shirley..... I want to thank you and everyone for your thoughts > and > prayers. Sherry is doing so-so... I hate to bore everyone with our > woes > but here is an update. I'm not certain the last bit of news I've > sent to > the group, so if I am repeating myself, I apologize. Since > Christmas, > Sherry has lost close to seventy pounds. Yes, that's a lot > especially for > a gal that was maybe 20 lbs overweight. What happened was that the > chemo > drugs caused sores in her mouth, which made it impossible for her to > eat. > Finally, one day in the office of the Oncologist, I raised hell. I > loved > that they were keeping her cancer at bay but that I was tired of > watching > her starve to death. The doctor agreed to cut her chemo drug by > fifty > percent. Almost immediately, the sores began to clear up and she > began to > eat again. Sometime next month we'll do more scans and will learn > the > status of the cancer. > Sometime in January, Sherry underwent surgery to remove the Gall > bladder. > Again, her appetite improved... about three weeks later, she began > to > develop severe pain in her abdomen....soooooooooo, in mid-March, she > was > hospitalized for a week while they tried to figure that out. As it > turned > out, she had a kink in her small intestine, which called for more > surgery. > Since then, she has shown improvement. She is eating a tiny bit > better > and is slowly regaining her strength. Week before last, she > actually > gained two pounds which made her sooooooo happy... Last week, she > lost > four! <sigh> > That, my friends is the latest. Thank you for listening. > > Gardens seem to be the hot topic of late. Now, I'm the first to > confess > that I am not a gardener. Although we will not have a garden this > year, I > did buy a couple of tomato plants 'cuz it just ain't Spring without > tomato > plants. lol > e has been a lot of discussion about planting potatoes....Agan, I'm > not > gardener but I will tell of an experiment an ex-BIL did a few years > ago > He planted potatoes in two small above ground planters. Think > "Square foot > gardens"...He planted his cuttings and when the plant began to grow, > he > would spread more dirt on top.... let them grow some more and then > add more > dirt. The end result was that he had an amazing amount of potatoes > from > those two little plots. The more dirt he added provided more dirt > for the > plan to make more seed/taters. I found her experiment absolutely > amazing... Hope this helps.. > > Gotta go and finish my taxes... lol > > The Dougster :-)*** > > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Shirley Sullivan > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Good Morning > > > > > > I want Doug to know I am thinking of him and Sherry, I have been > thinking > > of you guys for a few days now. I have no words of wisdom for you, > all I > > can say is hang in there, just think of today, not tomorrow, it > will come > > soon enough. There are so many of us praying for you, I am > surprised that > > airplanes can find space, with all the prayers flying up. We are > all here > > for you, if you need us. > > > > > > I am planning on a lazy day today, it's over cast, a little on the > cool > > side, they say maybe ?? a few showers tomorrow morning . Maybe > I'll curl up > > with a good book, and make a easy dinner. > > > > > > Robert, your probable getting a little anxious about now, you are > in my > > prayers, I know everything will go well with your surgery. 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