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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4 comments:
Beautiful flowers!
It’s hard to make a medical decision when presented with opposing views.
Gorgeous blooms...Our downtown has HUGE hanging baskets of petunias each year and they are so full they don't seem real - right into fall. Never heard of petunia food?? Thanks for the info on the CT scans...but, yikes, it's still scary. Last year they found 2 nodules on my lung, this year 3...and something on my liver...and calcification around the heart. I kinda just don't wanna know anymore, ya know?? The "habits" of the loved are the hardest to forget I think.
Gorgeous flowers!
I can imaging to be scary with what happend to your Dad and now your own problems with your lungs.
A few weeks ago a saw on youtube a video from a gp about Sjögren. Hè said that lungproblems and a cough are signs of this disease because of the dryness in your body. Cann't remember about notulen or so on the lungs, but for me it feels still scary because of all the family with any form of cancer and now myself too. All could be removed without having further treatment,but still in my mind there is this warning sign.
Hope you can talk about your descision of what to do.
A big hug and take care,Truus from Holland
Yikes Marly! So much info for you to digest. Sending healing wishes your way.
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