Desert Airs

Year: 2025

My Christmas 🎁

by Paul

This is what happens when your 9 yo daughter asks you what you want for Christmas and you shrug, answering – anything is fine 😂.

Introducing, Commander Theodore Berrington III.

 

😂😅🤣😂. He’s simultaneously perplexing🤔 and the most hilariously awesome present ever.  I love him more everyday. She said she got him to keep me company when she’s not around. 🥰

She already got me little ducks that she’s placed around my room. Most prominent is nurse ducky who she has pointed at by bed to watch over me.

I love that girl 6 bazillion.

What Does Chemotherapy Feel Like?

by Paul

I’ve had chemo multiple times now. I’m pretty lucky that it works pretty well on me. I had a doc break down the chemo effectiveness into 4 groups. In 5% of patients, the chemo is very effective. in 45% of patients, the chemo is somewhat effective, but slow acting. In 35% of patients, the chemo keeps the cancer from growing, but does not reduce the size. The remainder, the chemo has no effect.

So, it sounds like I am in the 5%, and yet it’s still horrid. Though not really in the ways I imagined. And yes, every chemo has it’s quirks, but I’ve talked to a fair amount of other patients about what they experience and it seems there are base commonalities. I’ll first talk about the commonalities and then the quirks for the different ones I’ve been put on.

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Roasted Fresh Tomato Pasta with Chicken

So I made this pasta simply because we have a bunch of end-of-season tomatoes and I was looking to use the ones that were starting to wrinkle. Somehow this turned into the dish my kids were saying it’s among their […]

Napoletana Pizza Dough

I’ve been trying a bunch of dough recipes that have kind of turned out but not really. I also want a recipe that doesn’t require special order flours. I keep making tweaks and this seems to have come out the […]