Today was such a great day. I had fun visitors and I met my friend at her house to go to the Farmer’s Market in Palm Desert…..it’s just a mile down the street so there’s no excuse for me not to go weekly to support the local farmers and get some fabulous organic produce and veggies! We are thinking of starting a garden soon….such an array of fresh sprouts we can buy to fill it up:

 

I love all the selection and colors at the market:

 

It inspires me to be healthier:

 

Lots o’ greens:

 

Boo’s favorite:

 

Gorgeous colors:

 

These smelled SO good:

 

 

I asked if the crates were for sale too…..yes!

 

Mr. LBB’s favorite….the famous “green drink” at the market:

 

After the  market, my friend made me a wheatgrass shot at her house…..she has a great little tabletop juicer that cranks by hand:

 

Squeezing every little last drop out of the wheatgrass:

 

Add a dash of cayenne peppper and squeeze a bit of lemon in the shot…..it tastes great!

 

 

I was introduced to chia seeds too today. Just add a bit to some juice and you’ll never know you’re eating them. The chia seed is full of fiber and protein, packed with antioxidants, loaded with vitamins and minerals, and the richest known plant source of omega-3 (more than flax seed!) You can get them at your local health food store!

 

I feel healthy already. Oh, did I mention I’ve done the coffee enemas two days in a row? Not even joking. And they made me feel SO much better. I feel like all the toxicity has finally left my body (just in time to start a new round of chemo tomorrow). My mom has been asking me to do coffee enemas for weeks now and the gift from my friend Megan finally made me do it.  All you do is brew organic coffee and add it to your enema bag (the kind you buy from the drug store that looks like a hot water bottle)……I dilute it with cool water so the liquid is tepid. It’s used to detoxify the liver. I’m not an expert so Google it….here’s a good overview from Natural News.

P.S. It seems all I talk about is poop now. Sorry. But my life kind of revolved around it. I even bought the Poo Tracker app for my iphone. It’s awesome. If you are shy, you can password protect it.

 

So I have some great friends who just want me to take care of myself and get better. Here is a gift from one of those friends today…..I must say it’s the first time I ever received a deluxe enema system as a gift. She’s so sweet and even brought it incognito so the neighbors wouldn’t see what she was bringing up the steps……ha, if only she knew it would make the photo of the day. For those of you who have never seen an enema system….here you go:

 

 

I don’t curse a lot but I do use the word “douche bag” probably 5 times a day (sorry Mom)…..so it’s a fitting gift.  We talked about enemas and bowel movements and healing for about an hour. Did you know there are wheatgrass enemas? and coffee enemas? or chamomile tea enemas? Well now you do! If you watch Kourtney and Kim Take New York….you’d know that there are also olive oil enemas. Reality TV is educational. The quote of the day is “you can use it for your coochie too if you want.” Love you M!

Another friend said that I should send the deluxe combination system to my artist friend Steph to “doodle” decorate it first. Doodle the doodie bag was how she put it. Maybe she’ll do a doodle doodie bag tutorial. I did some doodling today…..I might still be high off Sharpie fumes.

I have cancer…..and I’m not ashamed of my doodie bag.

Good afternoon! Oh where, oh where did the last few days go?! Well it’s official….chemotherapy is cumulative. The longer you go the worse it gets. I’m finally feeling a little better today. I fell asleep at 8pm last night and didn’t wake up until 8am this morning…..and I joked to Mr. LBB that I woke up with bed sores…..and I almost did. I don’t think I moved once all night and my joints were so sore. Getting up and around my limbs feel like jelly….I feel so disoriented and clumsy! It’s a cycle….I lay in bed for about 30 minutes then get up thinking maybe I can do something…..and then realize I can’t so I lay back down again.  Compazine makes me sleep…..thank goodness…..I just try to sleep away the bad parts of my day…..but it seems like such a waste.

 

Here’s my buddy Boo this morning….watching Iron Man with me….her favorite movie (I have to fast forward through about 8 parts). She’s afraid of Disney movies (I don’t blame her…..most are pretty dark) but not Iron Man. Go figure.

 

I woke up and was craving Keedy’s breakfast. So even though Mr. LBB and Boo had already eaten they took me to breakfast. We sat at the bar and our waitress Debbie had just finished telling us how she paid our last breakfast forward to a sweet local family….and a few minutes later she came back with the hugest smile on her face that someone had paid for our breakfast AGAIN. I knew who it was this time…..our good friends the Millers who just happened to be there the same time as us. They are so sweet. We handed our money to Debbie again to pay it forward to someone else and she just laughed and laughed. We’ll see how long we can keep it going.

 

 

Try doing something unexpected for someone this week. Maybe they’ll pay it forward…..and then maybe those people will pay it forward….you never know!

Now for the big question of the day….what should Boo and I make with all these pretty felt balls?

 

 

XOXO,

Ashley