Yes, I let the holidays sweep me up in the tide of good tidings.  Before I got caught in the undertow, I did go up for an MRI and a visit with Dr. Surgeon, who I guess I’ll call Dr. Follow-up now.  I am visualizing her hanging up her surgery hat before she enters the…

SO my walking partner D and I proclaimed that this is day 1 on the march to the Solstice.  Only 182 1/2 days to go to the longest day of the year!  We trudged in the snow this morning at 5, declaring that we were in the O’light:30 time zone rather than O’dark:30.  The sky…

When I pick up a magazine in a waiting room, I immediately look for the recipes. The ones with pictures are my favorite and really draw me in.  Have you ever seen a picture of something that looks really tasty only to find that the recipe was NO WHERE to be found? It sometimes inspires…

I just received the appointment for my risk assessment follow up.  12/21/10.  It leads me to think that risk assessments are not of an urgent nature like CT scans and the like…it doesn’t FEEL urgent to me, but it DOES feel like information I’d like to have.  Making the decision about participating in a risk…

Just a quick note that I had my last port blood draw yesterday for the BRCA testing. (Testing for the genes that are known to put someone at higher risk for ovarian and breast cancer.)  I was at the drive through at my bank on Tuesday and my windows were down.  I heard “Hi P…”…

I received the appointment for the final CT scan, which is scheduled for next week.  I’ll keep you posted.  This is really like the punctuation on this year of treatments.  Life has felt normal and full of distractions so I have not really spent much time worrying about the scan.  I’ve spent more time thinking about all the…

  We participated in the Walk For Hope living ribbon on Cancer Survivor’s Day.   It was such a beautiful day.  At some point a new regional hospital will be on these grounds, which is adjacent to the cancer center.  A beautiful place for healing in my opinion.  We are at the tip on the lower…

I’ve declared my mother’s angelhood here before.  I spent 5 or 6 days with her as she recovered from some procedures.  Being in a hospital, remembering the anesthesia FUNK that just doesn’t seem to go away, just wanting to sleeeeeeeeeep…all of these things were so very familiar to me and yet so very far away,…