Boyfriend will have minor oral surgery today to remove 2 small growths in his mouth. Neither area is cancer. We should be in and out in under an hour. Then we are headed to the store to buy some chicken wire to put up around our little gardens to hopefully keep the raccoons and deer out of our stuff!
The little bastards ate all of my Tulips, again! lol
While going to the cancer center for chemo, and then again for other medications we noted that people would leave baskets of vegetables from their gardens in the waiting room. It was free to patients and their families. Having cancer treatments is very expensive. An example is the cost of just the radiation. Boyfriend had 30 treatments. Each treatment is 600 bucks. Luckily the insurance paid all but 45 bucks a treatment. But paying 45 dollars a day for 30 days adds up especially when you have hospital bills from testing, surgeries, chemotherapy, and then other medications.......not to mention costs of all the other (pulmonologist, oncologist, surgeon, family practice, and radiologist), doctor visits.
So to go into a waiting lounge and see that someone from the community is so caring/thoughtful to bring veggies from their gardens to share with people who might be struggling financially, and might be choosing between medications and food, but who need to be eating a healthy diet, is the sweetest gesture in the world to me. (Not to mention the new little blankets they leave so patients can have their own little chemo blanket, and all of the books donated so patients and families can pass the time during treatments and after treatments while at home, reading if they choose to.)
Boyfriend and I hope that our little garden is fruitful enough this year that we will be able to take a basket of veggies or more to the cancer center. Right?
We will also be delivering books. I was always so grateful for all of the books.
The little bastards ate all of my Tulips, again! lol
While going to the cancer center for chemo, and then again for other medications we noted that people would leave baskets of vegetables from their gardens in the waiting room. It was free to patients and their families. Having cancer treatments is very expensive. An example is the cost of just the radiation. Boyfriend had 30 treatments. Each treatment is 600 bucks. Luckily the insurance paid all but 45 bucks a treatment. But paying 45 dollars a day for 30 days adds up especially when you have hospital bills from testing, surgeries, chemotherapy, and then other medications.......not to mention costs of all the other (pulmonologist, oncologist, surgeon, family practice, and radiologist), doctor visits.
So to go into a waiting lounge and see that someone from the community is so caring/thoughtful to bring veggies from their gardens to share with people who might be struggling financially, and might be choosing between medications and food, but who need to be eating a healthy diet, is the sweetest gesture in the world to me. (Not to mention the new little blankets they leave so patients can have their own little chemo blanket, and all of the books donated so patients and families can pass the time during treatments and after treatments while at home, reading if they choose to.)
Boyfriend and I hope that our little garden is fruitful enough this year that we will be able to take a basket of veggies or more to the cancer center. Right?
We will also be delivering books. I was always so grateful for all of the books.
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I'm just doing some sunflowers this year.
What a great thing to do, take veg baskets to the ward. We are fortunate in the UK that all cancer treatment is paid for by the NHS. Hope boyfriend is recovered.
Hi Liz!
Thanks for stopping by and thank you for your well wishes. Boyfriend is hanging in there!
You guys are fortunate to have cancer care paid for!
The cost here is ridiculous!
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