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Caesar started week 2 of chemo today, his blood work was "perfect" they said, and the tumours on his spleen, liver and small intestines have shrunk! YAY! (there was no change in the size of tumours on his lymph nodes) His doctor was quite pleased (as are we) but there is still some concern with his weight. At his healthiest he was 89lbs, today he is 68lbs - he has dropped almost 10lbs since he was in ICU a week ago. They're not sure if his intestines aren't absorbing the food because of the cancer but we will know more our next visit if he continues to lose weight. He is ravenous right now so will be gradually getting him back on his regular food and hopefully that (plus the prednisone) will help him put some pounds on this week. He doesn't go back until Dec 6 because neither Rick or I can get the time off work to drive him to the clinic (its an hour away), hopefully those few extra days without chemo won't set him back too much. I likely won't update much before then, unless something drastic happens. Thanks to everyone for your well wishes, they're helping! :)
Project 52 2013, Week 39, Eric Regan, Austin, TX, Downtown
Strobist Info:
* Switronix TL-50 as main light, with CTO gel cap @ 9/10 power. Camera left
* Nikon Sb-26 @ 1/64 power with CTO gel, camera left, as rim light
This is my best friend's daughter, Daisy. I've been photographing her since the day she was born. Daisy is one of those rare people who doesn't hold anything back when she is in front of the camera. It has been amazing to document her as she grows up. She continues to be one of the most unique individuals I know.
Week 30 - 29 July - 5 August 2015
More fun with double exposures. Was thinking of posting stuff from Melbourne Open House this year, but that's on another album.
Anyway, this late posting is another of the few "Double Exposure" shots I've been playing with. More next week.
Week: 33
Circumference: 41.5" - either measuring before dinner makes a difference or baby has shifted a bit.
Belly Button: Technically still there. If I lean back it is basically flush with the rest of my belly.
Enjoying: Slower days this week since the mere mention of snow keeps Seattlites at home. Knowing baby could realistically be here in less than a month. Naps. Mostly because they give the muscles above my belly a break from gravity.
Feeling: Tired more easily. A bit more back pain than usual this week. Denser.
Movement: Very definite awake times. More subdued as space gets tight but lots of elbows and knees and such to watch and feel.
Sleep: Tried staying up later and it definitely helped me sleep through the night (with a couple potty breaks, of course). This means I get up later, too. Which, honestly, is my preference in the winter anyway.
Food: Drinking lots of water and I want it COLD. Some days I'm really hungry others I'm not. Cutting back on portion sizes and increasing the amount of times I eat. Cooked at home a lot this week. Even made some food for the freezer for after the baby.
Anticipating: Seeing friends & family at the baby shower this weekend.
Estas dos cartas ya están listas para ser enviadas. Solo falta meterlas en sus sobres y echarlas al correo. Saldrán bien pronto y espero que a sus destinatarias les gusten <3.
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It’s Week 6 of 52 and I’ve already had it with self-portraits. Some days it feels like an exceedingly narcissistic and frivolous endeavor, other times like a challenge and learning process. How many ways can you photograph someone until it gets boring?
I for one get very tired of looking at myself . It’s not a question of low self esteem (or even too high self esteem) – I look like myself, if that makes any sense (don’t we all go through a phase in life when we don’t recognize the person in the mirror?). I guess I just need to find time to photograph other people, explore other personalities and life experiences. Alas, there are only so many hours in a day.
Week 15 - Food porn (Local dish)
Almost every restaurant in The Hill claim to have invented Toasted Ravioli
Having looked forward so much to this SOOC week I ended up with only a few hours yesterday to take my shot. I was lucky enough in the end to have several shots from which to choose. I finally returned to this one - a land/seascape shot of the area where I live.
Basically, this is the view (weather dependent, of course) that greets me on the train home from work each evening. On the right is Killiney beach which looks out over Killiney Bay - the adopted home of a small pod of 3 dolphins. Occasionally I spot the dolphins from the train as they frolic about in the bay. On the left in the distance is Bray Head in the shadow of which is the town of Bray where I live. To the right of this you can see the Little Sugarloaf and Big Sugarloaf mountains. These are the gateway to the Wicklow Mountains - one of the most scenic areas in Ireland.
From the several shots on my short list, I chose this one because it is absolutely SOOC with no need of any pre- or post editing as the camera really did capture what I was seeing at the time with the naked eye and I believe that no software or processing could improve on this view that I am privileged to have on my doorstep.
Me at 32 weeks. I'd be good with just a few more weeks and then I think I'm ready. :) Baby shower is this weekend!
Not sure why the quality turned out so crappy on this.
I had a perfect picture planned for this weeks ago. My plan was to go to a field with a little girl or boy and capture some great pictures of them holding a bunch of very colorful balloons. Well, Mother Nature had other ideas. We were hit with a few inches of snow during our "Spring Break". My husband, kids and I all built this snowman and I do have to say it is the best snowman we've ever made. We had a balloon in the house that I attached to his stick arm for balloon week. Definitely thinking outside the box on this one :)
To BabyHoeft: I spend a lot of my time wondering what you are going to look like kiddo. We heard your heartbeat yesterday, and it sounded awesome! The midwife said you were perfect, but lets be serious, you are my child after all! It is hard to imagine that someday you will be all grown up and I will be old, and feel like everything went by so fast. You are already growing so fast. Take it easy.
So, how does one prepare for the greatest challenge of their life? What makes a good parent? What makes a bratty kid? Spanking or no spanking? McDonalds? Wendys? Organic? Sports? School districts? Will they think I am awesome? There are Grand Canyons filled to the brim with questions like this flowing in a Nile sized river through my mind. Constantly. And there are no answers. For some reason they don’t bother me though. The questions fly by in a continuous stream, effortlessly. And I find myself jumping from one to the next as quickly as they get thrown at me. Never worrying about the never ending deep beneath all of these questions, that is waiting for me to trip. But enough about me.
We get to SEE BabyHoeft again on tuesday! That is going to be awesome. We are still not finding out the gender. I get really excited when I think about the first time I know BabyHoeft is a Boy/Girl. I am going to have girl-boy Hats/Whistles/Cigars/lightsabers everything!
Anyways, Next week is the big 20! Half way! we are gonna have to do something epic. This week the weather kept us inside again, hopefully we get some warm weather for next week.
For Dogster's weather challenge. We've been having really warm sunny days - gotta love Spring. Here is Skye relaxing in the shade.
I spent Friday afternoon with my friend I haven't seen since graduation. Went to her place. She's now living really near where I have my classes, which means I get to see her more often.
I'm about to leave to go meet two other friends that I also haven't seen since graduation (weird coincidence, actually). We're going to meet all the way across town. Which means I should leave about 45 minutes before 3pm (that's when we're supposed to meet). Well it's 2:47pm and my parents didn't even take a shower yet to drive me there. I'm always the one who is late for everything :(
SOOC
someone is seriously going to send me home with a new baby in a few weeks, which is just alarming if you ask me. don't ask about the state of the baby's room, by the way -- there is currently nothing in there, & daniel ripped up the carpet today so it can be replaced tomorrow.
i realized this morning that a tiny part of me is hoping for a girl -- mostly b/c my cousin has three boys, so i think a girl would add some balance! -- but b/c of that, a tiny part of me is certain it'll be a boy. i have zero intuition about this.
the last couple weeks have been marked by some serious fatigue -- i didn't get any first trimester fatigue so i really have no basis for comparison -- & annoying joint pain, but other than that, i still feel pretty awesome, even when darth baby is loch-ness-monstering to & fro in my belly. i have superduper lucked out on this one, you guys. kinda makes me wonder if i'm going to pay for this down the road!
Week 41
This week I decided to try something a little different. I took something I had written and attempted to make it into a photo... I was fairly pleased with it, let me know what you think!
"My pillow is too hot, I should flip it over. The neighbors next door are fighting again. This time I guess he forgot to take out the garbage. I can hear almost every word through the paper thin walls, "I told you right before I left specifically because it's too heavy for me..." Blah blah blah. It's already 2AM, I'm so tired but for some reason I can't close my eyes. The main street outside my apartment window isn't busy but every so often a car roars by just loud enough to bug me. Oh, there goes a truck now. I can even hear planes flying and trains blowing their horns every few hours. The silence between the disturbances make them seem more significant than they really are.
My eyes have adjusted so well to the moonlight squeezing through my blinds it could be daylight, I wouldn't even know. I have always had trouble sleeping at night, and probably always will. When I was little I would walk out of my room an hour after my mom had put me to sleep and complain that I wasn't tired. My mom would then ask me if I had tried closing my eyes and I would think back, only recalling studying how the moonlight touched everything in my room and think that I must not have tried closing my eyes and return to my room without another word.
So I tried this now, closing my eyes. It's never really worked before so I don't know why it would now, but I'm desperate. The shouting from my neighbors pierced my silence, almost causing me to wince. I thought about them, the cars, about work and life. I noticed my eyes were open yet again and I shut them instantly. After rolling over multiple times to get comfortable I decided to turn on the radio to keep me from thinking about life and to possibly keep a constant noise and maybe even drown out everything else.
I begrudgingly left my warm sheets to cross the room to the radio. The cool air hit me like a brick and it took all of my strength to not return to my blankets. My feet screamed on the cold carpet and I dragged myself to the window just to make certain it was closed. It was. I then turned to my alarm clock which I had strategically placed on the opposite side of the room so that in the morning I was forced to get out of bed to stop the angry beeping. The clock was already set to my favorite station and some smooth guitar chords started swimming through my head. I turned down the volume so it was just loud enough to keep the cars and couple at bay.
I crossed the room again to my bed which had become cold in my absence. The rough voice of a man with a broken heart joined the guitar, adding a new color to the music. I thought about him, what was real in his story and what was fiction. Do we all exaggerate? Just a little bit, I'm sure. We, as people, like things to sound good..."
Thank you!
The big news of the week is that Olive has started sleeping 12-13 hours a night. While we're super excited that we now know she's capable of it, we'd love to see a little more consistency. Ah well, one day.
Her little personality continues to blossom. She's become very silly this week. She loves to tilt her head to the side and grin wildly. It's ridiculously cute. She also loves when daddy hangs her upside down and bounces her crazily on his knee. She has been much more confident in her voice this week. We took her to Target one night and she sat in the cart and babbled loudly. Luckily everyone around us thought she was adorable and not annoying (or at least that's what they said).
The biggest change this week is how well she's mastered finger foods. She loves to pick up steamed bits of apple and sweet potato and eat them. She's definitely starting to chew her food which means we give her a lot more table food. She still loves to eat and can put away a ton of food now. Her current favorites are apple sauce and pumpkin that Ryan flavors with brown sugar, maple syrup, nutmeg and cinnamon. Our girl eats well!
Week of Women panel discussion and networking event at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London, 17 November 2016.
This week's challenge was to shoot an image SOOC. I'm used to doing a minor tweak or two to most of my shots. If I had my druthers, I would have done a slight crop to eliminate the dark corner in the lower right.. But I would not have made any other changes.
This was one of the best Ferris wheels - the light patterns were just awesome and I found a shorter exposure allowed me to capture more interesting light patterns.
Week 33/52 ~EP Project 52 ~ "Anticipation"
"Anticipation" ~ def: visualization of a future event or state
As it turns out, this has definitely been a week of much anticipation and anxiety for us. My son in law was waiting for news on a job that will ultimately relocate him, my daughter and grandkids to Georgia. Wednesday they received the news that it was a go. I sit here still today with such mixed feelings and emotions. I am entirely happy for them since it will provide such a better opportunity, but saddened that they will be that much farther from us. Because even though they didn't live around the corner from us, they were only 3 1/2 hours away as opposed to 8 hours now. But, I cannot help but feel excitement and anticipation for them in their new venture.
Don and I got up this morning to watch the sunrise. I decided just last night that I really wanted this shot for this week, don't know exactly why. Symbolic maybe to a new sunrise (beginnings) for my daughter and her family. But here it is.....a beautiful morning on Daytona Beach I share with you all..........with a hug.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!
Irela
xoxoxo
Canon 5DMii: Lens Canon 24-70L; ISO100; f5.6: 24mm; 1/400; WB~Kelvin
On tripod; Very "light" adjustment in LR
52.Weeks: The 2014 Edition "The 7 Deadly Sins"
I take so much Pride in my image making that not even being in ICU can stop me from making and editing images. I'm processing the studio stills for my next short documentary film.
Mobile Processing · RX100M3 > #EyeFiCard Mobi > Galaxy S3 > VSCO Cam > Add Watermark
Theme Of The Week - Nothing in Focus
The London Eye from the back of a taxi on the Westminster Bridge
Since last Polaroid Week I got a new position at my work which doesn't give me as much desk time therefore less time to get up take a walk the the sole purpose of taking photos. So with this past week being rather busy and/or poor weather and the fact I didn't realize it was Polaroid week until Wednesday...I managed to get some instant shooting in on the Friday! And having ten sheets of Type 72 (the unopened box of Type 55 is being used this summer) I went out and got five shots, not bad for ten year expired instant film, but one fogged on the one side I learned, you have to make sure your 545 back is nice and snug when shooting it with an Intrepid camera.
Intrepid 4x5 - Fuji Fujinon-W 1:5.6/125 - Polaroid Type 72 @ ASA-400
Meter: Pentax Spotmeter V
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC (2015)
For this week I have a really bad quality capture.
I am so sorry for the lack of comments and posts. This week I'll catch up and continue to post once a week, as I used to.
Arthur is having some healthy problems lately.
First an otitis (an inflammation in both ears - I don't know if that translation is correct 'cause for that I used Google. Please, if it's not, let me know). I started the medications a couple of weeks ago and it should be healed by now but he still cries when I touch his ears. Or even when he itches.
Then, a week ago or so he woke up with a little something in the inner conner of his right eye... Like an allergy. Red and slithgly swollen. I'm using eye drops, but isn't working either.
And last but not least, just now we came back from our last walk of the day, as usual, and he was fine. I did everything I always do: changed his water and filled his bowl with food. He ate and went for his every-second-minute-hour nap. A few minutes later, he woke up and was limping (again, only translation I found, idk if it is the right one). I thought he was with the "sleeping" leg, like we do sometimes when stay in a wrong position. But then I tried to touch it and he cried. I still did some "exercises" with his leg, but couldn't find the reason of the pain. He can stand up, but then he won't move from there because he can't touch the floor with the right leg. If he starts to walk, kinda drag his leg. I'm really worried about that, especially because he never showed any sign of pain ou anything before. It was totally unexpected.
Tomorrow I'll take him to the vet to see what it is and take care of the other two problems as well. Hopefully won't be anything serious, but my heart is coming out of my mouth. Hate to see my little boy in pain and not be able to help him.
Anyway... Hope you guys have a great week!