I found out last week that I have hereditary hemachromatosis. It's a fairly rare genetic disorder that means I absorb iron too well. That doesn't sound bad, except that the body doesn't have a way to filter iron from the blood. It just keeps floating around, stores itself in the bone marrow and in your organs (liver, kidneys, heart, brain). ( Read more... )

We have had an interesting few days here.   Friday night, Saturday & Sunday, we were in Michigan for my nephew's birthday party.  It rained almost constantly while we were there (remnants of Hurricane Ike), occassionally raining so hard we thought Noah was going to be floating by any minute!  Sunday we headed home.  We checked weather.com, no rain ( Read more... )

We have a quote of the day on our company's intranet site.  I have to say that this one is spot on!

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
-- Jorge Luis Borges

Had the follow up squishy-boob thing this morning...it looks like it's just a fluid filled cyst (like what I've got on the right).  We'll do a follow up in six months and make sure it hasn't changed in a bad way (bigger or density change). So I'm relieved that it isn't anything obviously bad.  But now my left boob is owie and will probably stay ( Read more... )

1. YOUR REAL NAME 
    Kristina
2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle) 
    Krizizzle (I added an extra z to make it more "gangsta")
3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color and favorite animal) 
    Blue Dog
4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (your middle name and the street you live on) 
    Marie Godown  (sounds more like my Porn Star ( Read more... )

And I haven’t posted yet about our vacation. We went to Myrtle Beach with Gary’s family for a week. We had good weather for the drive down, good weather while we were there, a few pop-up type thunderstorms in the afternoons, lots of beach time, good weather for the trip back. And we got to go parasailing. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for years ( Read more... )

OK - So I had my "I'm 40 now, gotta get another one" mammogram yesterday.  The radiology people called today and said that the radiologist wants to get more images of my left breast, possibly do an ultrasound.  So I looked back for my last mammogram, and it was Feb 2005, and the issue was my right breast.  So now I'm freaking out a little bit, but ( Read more... )

It was a good birthday.  I had to work during the day (I'm taking tomorrow off for a long weekend as my "birthday" day), but Gary and I went out for a nice dinner and I got lots of good presents ( Read more... )

So my 40th birthday is today. I’m not sure exactly how I feel about that. I certainly don’t feel 40 most of the time, and people are always telling me I don’t LOOK 40. My body is beginning to act 40 though.

I certainly expected to be somewhere else in my life by now. That “somewhere” has changed a lot over the years.

When I was in my teens and ( Read more... )

 
We've had quite a few things going on lately, just haven't sat down and written about them.. so here goes.
In no particular order, here are the things going on lately...

Gary's mom has had her mastectomy, came through surgery really well.  She should be getting her drainage tube out this week and meets with the oncologist next week to discuss chemo.

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