Sarah, you have now met the welcoming committee, hee, hee. Welcome to our forum. This is the place that you will love to spend time, learn, ask questions, tell us of your experiences with the bees that you are going to get. I'm grateful that you read that book, Beekeeping for Dummies, that instilled an interest and sparked something that you will find will soon be out of control, and you will become a bee addict ;) :)
You will find bees to be a very relaxing thing to do, it will get busy with them, but when you spend time with these girls, the stress levels in your life will decrease. This will aid with your healing of your malade, reduced stress is a wonderful thing. Take care, you will be well. Your bees will help you along this road, allow them. Enjoy your time here, ask your questions, all your questions will get great answers, and never think a question is not worthy of an answer because you think it dumb, no so.....all questions deserve answers. Enjoy here. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, beautiful life. Cindi