My castle of comfort
Photo by Yen Feng
Rusty’s second post
Hello all, it’s been ages since I have written anything on my Yenny’s blog, so here goes.
Lately, I’ve been feeling pretty weak and tired, but honestly, I can’t complain. Mornings are the best - Yen makes me breakfast while I watch black trannies tear at each others’ wigs on Jerry Springer (My staple of trashy US morning TV, though I do flip to the BBC to come up for oxygen on occasion). Coffee and rice krispies cereal crisping in cold soya bean milk from Chinatown - you just can’t beat it.
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been going to the hospital three times a week to get blood, and on these mornings, it’s a long 45-minute trek from our apartment in the East Village to New York-Presbyterian Hospital on the UWS.
By the time I make it back home, it’s already past 4pm. I am normally so exhausted from the chemo, or from the blood transfusions, that just making it up the one short flight of stairs to the apartment takes an eternity.
By the time I make it to the door, I feel like I’ve been beaten half-dead by a very heavy stick.
While I’ve been gone, Yen’s been busy transforming the apartment into a five-star resort.
When I step into the room, I smell faint jasmine. Incense is burning on the window-sill. I hear calm, musical voices in the background. There are fresh rainbow-colored tulips on the coffee table. A plate of cool celery and keen carrots.
What? A tall, icy drink of pina colada? (Virgin, my Yenny smiles.)
What Yen does to this place sets my soul at ease. I am now ready to take a nice, long afternoon nap. This apartment, this home, it’s my castle of comfort, my paradise.
April 26th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Aww warm and fuzzy. I am so glad that you have this oasis. Hugs!
April 26th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Beautiful ….
Hugs for both of you (and a pitcher of virgin pina coladas with a flotilla of umbrellas)
April 27th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
It sounds lovely. You two are truly blessed to have each other. Hugs and love from Montana.
April 27th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
I love the love and care you two have for each other. That’s a rare and precious gift in a chaotic world. Simply by loving each other, you make the world better.
April 27th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Sorry you’ve been feeling so crappy, Jesse. Good thing Yen totally rules, huh?
Keep your chin up, sweetie. You’ve got tons of well-deserved love and admiration coming at you from all over the world, thanks to that boy of yours.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Yen:
April 28th, 2007 at 1:13 am
And it’s wonderful that there is an oasis of peace - which in turns creates a place of peace, hope and sharing. What a wonderful joy to have gotten to know somewhat of the two of you -
Yen and Jesse - hang in there - as Helen said, there’s a LOT of us standing with you during this…
(if I’ve said this before, sorry - chalk it up to a senior moment!)
Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be.
– Sri Chinmoy
(HUGE bear hug) …b
April 28th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
My, Yen seems to be taking good care of you. Sorry you’ve been feeling so poorly. It does sound like there is some improvement though.
Hang in there.
April 29th, 2007 at 1:07 am
I agree, there’s nothing like coming home to your loved one. Keep well the both of you.