My wishes for 2008 are simple: a whole 2 weeks without a medical appointment of any sort, and a vacation to Hawaii. Not sure why Hawaii, just that I woke up early the other day and fell back asleep with the light on, and when I woke again thought, oh, wow, I get [...]
This is a marvelous bit of down time between the busy-ness of the holiday season, and getting ready for the New Year. I for one am delighted to be stepping into a new year, a clean slate, a year full of possibilities and hope.
As my brother, a philosophy major, said: “Things are neither as bad nor as good as they may seem.”
Sigh. My mom had atypical endometrial hyperplasia, and so had a prophylactic hysterectomy today. And the docs found cancer cells, not the pre-cancerous cells that her biopsy reported. My sweet mom. DCIS breast cancer nine years ago and now this. I’m sad, and numb all at the same time.
Digital mammograms are amazing things. No waiting, just the results - right away. Plus EPIC West rocks - they have chocolate to eat while you sit and wait for the radiologist to read the mammogram pics. (Deep stress calls for chocolate.) They called me back for one additional pic just to [...]
Well, I have my first follow-up mammogram today, and my mom is having surgery tomorrow, and I think I may go for a long walk as soon as it gets light. Filled with anxious, “go” energy.
I’m visiting my niece and nephew at their home, which is a small miracle, as I haven’t been up here in a year. Since last December in fact. I don’t normally travel in Jan and Feb, and in March of 07 I was diagnosed with cancer, and that’s all she wrote for me [...]
Good news: echo-cardiogram is normal! No chemo damage for me. Doesn’t explain the heart palpitations, but at least it’s nothing structural.
The echo-cardiogram techs were super nice yesterday. The one who did the test said she didn’t see anything weird. Also that she could barely hear the murmur (though I could hear it), and that murmurs happen when the heart valves, which are thin flaps, get a little leaky. Sometimes they’re leaky, sometimes they’re not.
The other [...]
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