Eileen's Cancer Blog
Finally found a passion
Love roses! During my treatment, I would buy myself a dozen roses before my treatment and I would get up and smell them and admire them before I would have to go back to bed after treatment. When I got up..they were always there..I got my diagnosis after I had planted a lot of new flowers that I had never planted before..it was my make it or break it garden. I watched them grow or die and I would go out on the front porch and try to come up with a plan for next spring gardening without any success, because I was so drugged up or so caught up in the process of treatment and cancer..and because of my immunity, I could not garden..it was frustrating.
I use to make jewlery..beaded jewelry..not for money..gave a lot of it up for causes like aids or breast cancer..and just lost interest in it…I continue to buy roses and fell in love with the colors and the shapes..the cabbage roses are my favorites..and now I have decided to grow my own.
To me roses signify a renewal of life..I have found a passion after so long and I am embracing it..there are a few pictures of some of the roses I bought..I have yet to put them in the ground..waiting for my mother in law who is visiting this weekend to help me put them in the ground. I feel like it is rebirth..I am so excited ..and love it..have not felt this way in such a long time..I love all of you in this community..you have helped me to smell the roses. Without you..it would not have been possible. I am the luckiest girl in the world..whatever happens…I feel so fortunate to have met the most wonderful people ..it just sucks that it had to be through cancer..Love you!
What a beautiful passion! They are beautiful! Good for you..
Posted on I love roses too! This year I stuck about a dozen plant food spikes into the earth around my white rose bush. It grew so high, and had so many roses, that I was able to cut a stem for visitors for a few weeks. Then, once I thought winter had hit, I trimmed it back a bit so it wouldn’t be damaged by the weather. Bad idea! We had a hot streak for about ten days, and the rose bush grew even higher than before and had another (third) bout of blooming. It was definitely my garden’s delight this year.
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