Thinking out loud

So, in 2017 I posted my beeventures. I have continued running down that rabbit hole and I now have two hives (Actually one, but more on that below) and work at a bee farm. I stepped up to a real two frame honey extractor and we got about 70 pounds of honey this year.  Unfortunately we lost a hive this fall, some sort of virus most likely, but hive #2 is going pretty darn well so far. I have both hives inside my chicken run, and even though we're down to two birds due to Racoonpocalypse 2019 they still keep the grass clear of the hives and seem to keep pests down as well. I do lose the odd bee here and there to snacking from the hens, but that's worth not running a weed eater around them. Working at the Bee Farm has worked out well for me, I needed something flexible that allowed for me to be sick off and on and they needed someone here and there. I don't work the fields, yet, but help run the shop and build frames and boxes and that. It's hard not to be imp...

Ok, I figured I'd put all of this in one place. I have friends now that didn't know be pre-cancer and even though I will talk about it all day to whoever will listen there are questions popping up here and there. I thought this would be the place to put the answers. I have stage IV Follicular Lymphoma. I was diagnosed in late September 2015.   Follicular lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system. It develops from B lymphocytes (white blood cells that fight infection). This type of lymphoma usually grows very slowly. It is difficult to cure but is usually kept under control for many years with treatment needed only from time-to-time. I had been feeling off for months and had gotten a sleep study in the Spring and gotten a CPAP, this made me feel much better, but then I started sliding again. I also started a blood pressure medication that summer. Anyway, I had gone in in July because I wasn't feeling super awesome and I found a lump in my neck.  I was given a...