Nerd #1 - International Fake Journal Month

Valerie Colston,
 200 Projects to Strengthen Your Art Skills
#112 - Beaded drops

The nerd tried very hard to learn how to paint the dimensions of beaded drops.  It looked doable and the theory was obvious - preserve the highlights and create shadows.  It was just much more difficult than expected and may require a do over sooner rather than later.  Nerd is glad not to have to turn it in for a grade.

I have five medical appointments within eight days.  Today, Sunday, I had to go in for another Neupogen injection, as I did yesterday and will tomorrow.  The good part is knowing that I expect to be through with chemotherapy in six weeks and can plan to spend the entire summer in rebuilding strength and recovering from all the onslaughts of the past year.

First symtoms developed in July with rising tumor markers, then a CT to show the tumors, then surgery and chemotherapy, then fainting and near fainting and more recently, renal failure.  By the time it's all over I will have given an entire year to this relapse and it's been much more difficult than the initial diagnosis ten years ago.

Oh, dear, I'm starting to feel sorry for myself!