Doctor Delay; Good News Anyway
Well there was a glitch in today’s doctor appointment. It was made with the wrong person in spite of my best efforts… I was assured it was okay right up until that person said “so why are you here today?”
So… more results Wednesday. She did tell us the MRI showed everything had “resolved” which means it does not show up on the breast MRI anymore.
I’m feeling good, had an awesome weekend, and got married in Vegas. MORE LATER 
TGIF
Catching a plane soon to go on a quick trip. I’ll post Monday after I get my test results and talk to the surgeon’s assistant.
4th and 4th Meme
Everybody’s doing it…
The rules, they are as follows:
1. Go to your pictures file.
2. Go to the 4th file.
3. Go to the 4th picture.
4. Post it and tell the story.
5. Tag 4 more people. (I’m skipping this part, so there
The story: on our annual pilgrimage for bluegrass music, hippies and camping, one year we stopped in Gilroy (home of the Garlic Festival) and visited Gilroy Gardens. It’s a combination of garden and kid’s theme park. We didn’t bring any kids but we went on some of the rides anyway. I think this picture is from this area:
Rainbow Garden
It was fun. It was a bit pricey and we might not go back, but if a person lived in the area and had kids it might be worth a membership.
It is difficult
to cry tears of joy and amazement, eat ice cream, and wave your hands in the air, at the same time.
Thank gods it’s almost over…
… Because I feel like CRAP and there’s one more treatment. I fell asleep on the couch before *and* after dinner last night. I’ve had every gut symptom I can think of in the past 24 hours (except vomiting). I sway from side to side when I walk because my balance is off and my feet are tingly. My typing is off because my fingers are tingly. It takes me an hour to do a work task that should take 10 minutes because my focus, short term memory and attention span are nonexistent. I have to rest after I go get a glass of water…
I seriously do not understand how people who have children and responsibilities get through this. I sit on the couch and whine for my wonderful boyfriend to bring me things.
9 more days. Then I should start to get better and keep getting better for several weeks. I haven’t had surgery since I was 4 so we’ll see how that goes. It should be in December. I’m aiming to use the days I’m forced to take off because we’re closed anyway, for recovery.
I am an idiot.
I was sitting in the hammock relaxing… I picked up a nearby spade to just dig up a little not-quite-flat spot … next thing you know my hand hurts, I look, and I have a blister 
and I think I got a latex reaction from the last bandaid I used so I guess I’ll just put on this neosporin and wave my hand around. ARGH
UPDATE I don’t have a latex allergy. Turns out they are much worse. It seems the adhesive just tore my skin, which is more fragile “as you get older” as the chemo nurse said REPEATEDLY. This time she took the tape off slowly with an alcohol scrub (and my fingernails, since she was wearing gloves.) It didn’t even leave a bruise, let alone an abrasion. The stupid blister is getting better too.
My chemo nurse has a respiratory reaction to latex, which is much worse than a skin reaction. She says it is due to a lot of gloves being made in the early days of AIDS, of low quality, which leaked latex in to the air to sensitize people and cause reactions. Allegedly. But my hospital is almost latex free except for the colored bands they use after blood tests to hold on gauze.
10 down, 2 to go, almost there!
I got to see the doctor before chemo today, that always cheers me up. She is *great*. She knew I was more tired and kind of depressed by it, just by hearing me greet her. She listened to me talk about it and said “well we *could* stop early” but I said “no I’m just whining” and she said she likes to whine too. Then she told me my numbers are great, I’m doing fine, we are almost there, and it will get better after surgery. And she was really nice. I just love her. Not to mention she is saving my frickin life eh??
“I went back to Ohio”
I hooked up that free sitemeter. It doesn’t seem to synch up with the wordpress stats some how. But anyway I have been getting a lot of hits from Ohio and I don’t know who it is… I think it might be Joe the Plumber?!
I’m back… sort of
We had a great time. Yesterday I had a bunch of medical tests and by the time we got home I had a fever… just a little cold or something. I’m going back to bed. More and funnier, later….
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