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C'mon over my house, we got chicken in the barn
Chicken, but no rooster ( Read more... ) -
An Idiot- Everywhere
I've been watching In Idiot Abroad lately on Netflix, a series that I find incredibly amusing, even though I generally find Ricky Gervais's humor a bit cruel. At least the man admits right up front the whole thing is a tremendously expensive practical joke, meant to allow him to laugh at his supposed "friend", Karl Pilkington. Just finished the ( Read more... ) -
Way to screw a cancer patient-or at least their oncologist
It's no big news that I have cancer. Adenocarcinoma of the lung, with metastases to the bones, and now to the liver and pancreas. Not the best diagnosis to have, and yet I still manage to live, somewhat, to enjoy as much as possible my husband, my family, children, grandchildren, and those other wonderful families of folks from my fire department ( Read more... ) -
A Walking, Talking living doll.....
I walked out to the car, and folded my walker up and slung it into the seat behind me. I got in the driver's seat and headed out to meet my hubby for his doctors appointment with his guy, Dr. See-Thru ( Read more... ) -
After all this time
they finally get a PET scan on me, and surprise! MORE CANCER!!!! This time in my pubis and ischium- the bones in the front and back of my groin on the right side (no WONDER I've been having such pain that I can't walk!) and in my left scapula, which is contributing to the pain in my left shoulder from my torn rotator cuff. So more radiation, and ( Read more... ) -
Back in the saddle again
Knock-knock.
Who's there?
Guess!
Guess who?
......NO! nononononononono!A-yup. That vague ache int he middle of my back, that I attributed to overworking my poor shoulder- muscles as I pushed myself to walk more and more with the walker, and get around less with the wheelchair? A quick MRI on Friday shows that cancer is munching away at another ( Read more... ) -
Beginning to see the rim
Of this black hole I've been in for the past month ( Read more... ) -
Those aren't chills running down my spine
I'm getting SOME answers finally. Went to Philly on Thursday and talked to the radiologist, Dr. Suh. He showed me the most recent scans of my spine, and explained the pain I'm having is from spots where tumors on my spine and in my pelvis are pressing on the nerves, effectively pinching them. The tumors are too close to the nerves to be able to ( Read more... ) -
Honesty is such lonely word
I haven't been being honest, not to the people who care about me. Truth is, ever since I got the news that the cancer was , for the moment at least, stopped in it's tracks, I have been feeling so much worse ( Read more... ) -
Limits
Stumbling through the bathroom in the deep. dark mid-night, I find myself adrift in the middle of a familiar space. Where am I? How close to anything - a towel rack,a dresser, shoe-rack, a shin-splitting mass of vitreous china,a sleeping dog, a wall? Out of concern for the tender bits of my anatomy that never seem to make out well in abrupt ( Read more... )