Saturday, November 19, 2011

JuJu and Goody Bags

I'm at the shop today {my new lux shop with wifi!}, alongside my beloved farmer's market and all it's positive juju. I felt really dreary this morning, mopey and all hang-doggie, and in under an hour I'm revitalized. I'm going to plan all my treatments around the goal of not missing my Saturday markets, they always make me feel better. The shop isn't even busy, but being here lifts my spirits.

Want to know what else would lift my spirits? A goody bag. If you have children, you know that when you leave the hospital, they give you your baby AND a goody bag -- filled with formula and diapers and binky's and yeah, it's propaganda, they want to hook you on the commercial products, but still, it's a goody bag and it makes you happy.

When you leave the hospital with your cancer diagnosis, that's all you get. If nothing else, I think cancer should come with a goody bag... with an iPad in it {obviously}.  Mr. Jobs should have seen to that before he left, he of all people would understand the life-affirming, mood-lifting effects of sublime design. And the need for reading material on demand, in waiting room, after waiting room, after waiting room.

I dream of iPads because it’s much better than dreaming about stupid cancer. Cancer is not a sublime design, it’s messy and yucky, it’s a disharmonious interloper with no grace or purpose. iPads are beautiful, so i will dream of iPads.

8 comments:

  1. it's great that you will have something to look forward to each week. that place really does have a wonderful vibe. good luck with craftopia!!!

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  2. ...oh, and can you ask Jonah where is "Return of Super Pig Part II"? That'll cheer both of us up.

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  3. Hey there I am a friend of Joanne Sargent's and I have just finished treatment for that sucky damn triple negative cancer. It is a roller coaster but is doable. I would love to talk with you as this is big stuff. Plus I am moving to Tiverton, RI on December 28th....yes, all you get when you leave the hospital is that feeling that you have lost your stomach. Writing is a tremendous outlet and I often post on the breastcancer.org triple negative blog. There are a lot of us out there who are full of humor and advice and it is a great site if you haven't check ed it out....and yes I must be much younger than I thought and have an ancestry that I was never aware of even with the blue eyes and formerly blondish hair...but hey bald is beautiful and I may have some things I can pass on to you. I expect to have about 3/4inch of hair by mid January if I am lucky. 2 months after chemo ended it began to slowly come back a little at a time...I still look bald but resilency is the word....

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  4. Oh..and to reach me....susanmedyn@cox.net if you want to talk. We can exchange numbers.

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  5. And here is my picture before no hair..
    and my art..www.susanmedyn.com

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  6. Well it won't post my pic..but it is on your followers list

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  7. a million thanks susan, i'll be in touch for sure!

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  8. Whats that Aerosmith song?
    "Dream on...
    Dream on...
    Dream on...
    Dream until your dreams come true!"
    Is that even an Aerosmith song? Aaarrrgh its stuck in my head now. Get it out! Get it out! Stupid song.

    Ipad....mmmmmmm....

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