Well, I don’t want to say ugly. Too cliche. So it was a pretty fabulous weekend (the good). I pulled the trigger and bought me a new TV (thank you Uncle Sam!) Friday afternoon after the cleaning people left. After that, I only left the house to walk the dog and make a quick grocery […]
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So my sister in law went back home yesterday. While it was great to have company for Round One, it was just a great to get my house back again. I almost didn’t know what to do first last night. Today was the first round of blood tests post chemo. There is sort of a […]
Read the rest of this entry »One down and five plus more to go
Well, shoot, that is awfully small print. 😉 So where were we? Oh yeah, chemo last week. SIL arrived Saturday early afternoon and we actually had a rather enjoyable weekend including a shopping trip on Sunday and an afternoon at a local garden place on Monday. And then there was Tuesday morning. The […]
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Another week, another recovery period. hahaha The surgery went well Monday morning – no collapsed lung which is always good news. I was discharged around 9:30 AM and home by shortly after 10 AM. And then I settled in for a day long nap. It turns out the minor surgery and recovery was more painful […]
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Not sure I know where to begin. Every day brings a new roller coaster ride. So I’m all healed from the surgery and went back to work two weeks ago. All good there for the most part. It’s really hard to focus at times and work can be a struggle. People seem to think it […]
Read the rest of this entry »Moving forward….
It was a strange week. While it started out pretty awful, there were some good days. I feel like the ship has been righted again…at least for a while. As for the quote above, I am now a believer…at least for now. After feeling totally devastated on Monday and then allowing myself to wallow in […]
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For the past two years, I have had this inner drive to do certain things – the bucket list trips, the decluttering of the house, and other subtle changes to my life in general. I could never quite put my finger on what was the actual driving force behind it all. I sort of chalked […]
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It was a strange week. I dropped my brother off at the airport earlier today and he is safely on his way home. I feel oddly disoriented. All in all, I feel pretty good after the surgery. There is still some residual soreness with one or two of the incisions but nothing that isn’t manageable. […]
Read the rest of this entry »So far so good…
So I survived the surgery which went better than expected. But let’s back up a bit… At some point last Monday, I sort of started looking forward to surgery. Hard to explain but it was like I had gone through a series of challenges and the prize (of sorts) was going to be getting rid […]
Read the rest of this entry »Counting down the days…
Yes, there are days when it takes a lot of convincing to just get out of bed. Two long weekends in a row really didn’t help matters. And now I only have one full day of work left until….chaos. I feel like I should say something profound but the words just aren’t there. Perhaps after […]
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