Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today than to recount yesterdays. How would ( Read more... )

I've committed to doing this challenge.  I might not post all of them in my public journal - some may remain only on paper but I will probably share most because that's the kind of girl I am.

The Inspiration

To celebrate Emerson's 208th birthday, The Domino Project is republishing a work of art that's especially relevant today. Self-Reliance by ( Read more... )

May is brain cancer awareness month.  So, I want to make sure that you are all aware that brain cancer could be outside your home right now… looking in your windows trying to figure out how best to sneak in.  Or maybe it’s in the back seat of your car so make sure you look before you get in.  In all seriousness, it really is brain cancer awareness ( Read more... )

Chemo round eight is done.  Four more to go.  I'm just keeping on knocking them out.

My surgeon wrote after reviewing my latest MRI.  He thought things still look good.  Residual tumor is still stable and he has no concerns about anything.  That's good news. 

After a lot of consideration and soul searching - DH and I decided it was the right thing to do.  I've submitted an application for me to go on social security disability.  Because of my diagnosis of a grade III astrocytoma, I qualify for a compassionate allowance which means that they don't drag it out and they should make a decision on my case ( Read more... )

Tonight will be the last night of Chemo Round 8.  I am so tired I'm just going through the motions of my day.  I am going to go home early and I hope I can get a good nap in ( Read more... )

My little increase in seizures seems to have stopped and they are back under control.  My doctor is still happy with everything and I saw the neurologist on Monday.  He had me do the 'stupid human tricks'.  Every neurologist seems to have personalized their own version of just about the same things.  It's sort of like doing a sobriety ( Read more... )

Hello everyone,

This week I have more to report than I thought I would.  As you all might remember, I have occasional focal seizures.  In the grand scheme of things, they aren't a huge issue but, everyone would prefer that they are kept to a minimum.  Since I completed radiation, they had been fairly well controlled and I have only had one or ( Read more... )

I finished chemo round seven almost two weeks ago.  In previous months by four or five days after the last Temodar for the cycle goes down my gullet I have been back to feeling mostly okay.  Not so much this time.  I'm still extra tired and I just don't feel all that great sort of like I"m coming down with something.  I guess I will find out if ( Read more... )

I don't hate on much.  In general, to me, hate is a wasted emotion and it takes far too much work to maintain.  With that said, sometimes hate is just the word that fits ( Read more... )