Visited the Amish greenhouse for a few mums. This place has two huge two story homes with wrap around porches, far from other homes atop a hill. These are some of their flowers.
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The owner, a very nice family, said the trick to blooms like this into September is petunia food every week. They use it on everything, especially those plants that like acidic soil. I use bloom booster, but will try this next year. Avoid fertilizer with more phosphorus.
About that CT scan. My dad passed in 2001 and I saw a pulmonologist after since I was short of breath. It was anxiety after watching him suffocate and panic for two weeks when the idiot failed to diagnose a pulmonary embolism. A CT showed two nodules which required watching (Carole's husband had passed before Dad from lung cancer). The anxiety level was unbearable while I waited six months for the second scan. Protocol was a CT every six months for three years. Every few years or when I had a cough, another was ordered. Then the incorrect reckless diagnosis of "rapid onset pulmonary fibrosis" several years ago required two more scans. I don't qualify for the smoker's low dose radiation scan, and he finds them not to be as precise. The nodules have minor growth over the last few years, along with GGOs (ground glass opacities) which have no guidelines. Too small and scattered to biopsy unless they develop into a solid. Scary. It is up to me to decide, insurance approved, radiologist recommends, doctor is concerned that all that radiation may do more harm since I had no change on the last one.
Tootsie is looking for Ollie and I miss that big head in my window.
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