Baby steps to the elevator ...Baby steps to the elevator ... - LiveJournal.comGoing, going- June 25, 2008 I deleted a bunch of old stuff. It's good. I expect further purging, hopefully on a similarly (relatively) grand scale, to continue in many, many areas of my life.Including stationery. I am so on a letter kick. Seriously, people - do you want mailhttp://chimalis.livejournal.com/751440.html One more thing! Things!- June 24, 2008 I'm at Grandma's again. Did I say that For this week, at least, I think. More to come as I focus and figger it out.And also: the soda pop I mention here Still in the fridge at home, waiting for the upswing. I never got around to drinking it, see, since I was too tired and sick on chemo day to even enjoy it if I HAD had it then, and within about 12 hours from there I had my pneumonia diagnosis in hand. Sigh. I'm gonna drink that thing when I get better - and if it has to stay in the...http://chimalis.livejournal.com/750168.html Routine Incarceration- June 23, 2008 Hospital visit number five for the year was tame in comparison to others. Saturday night's ER visit was boring except the thrilling three minutes the doctor took to dig with a sharp stick inside the crack on my heel to pull out two enormous pieces of dirty fuzz ... and that wasn't even the reason I was there. The xray tech couldn't believe my accumen in self-positioning and laughed gaily when I announced that seriously I've been having regular chest xrays since 2000. Yes. Really. ...http://chimalis.livejournal.com/749928.html Glaucoma FTW!- June 20, 2008 Let me just say, this has been quite the week. If you aren't on my friends list, you missed a couple things that I just don't feel comfortable putting out in public, but here's a short version to catch you up: Monday I started the transition (yes, it is apparently to be a lengthy process) from employed to not, and Tuesday a close family friend died. Wednesday actually went by without much fanfare ... and then today.I thought today would be good. I went to work; I went to an optometrist...http://chimalis.livejournal.com/749740.html Awe yeah- June 17, 2008 Watching TigersGiants. Yeah Thames! I have to say that I know virtually nothing about how my team has done in the past month, except that Verlander is pitching better (finally), Bonderman bit the dust and we swept the Sox. Was it the Sox I was proud, so maybe it wasn't; the Sox aren't any good. Anyway.I'm back in Ann Arbor now and trying out work for the week to see how it goes. So far so good for today; I'll head back tomorrow with a fresh oxygen tank and guarded optimism.I am still just.http://chimalis.livejournal.com/748673.html Um. Damn. Again.- June 11, 2008 I almost don't want to make this entry, but perhaps you'll see the potential dark humour involved. I kind of get it. After all, I have a rare kind of the very rare complication in which the cure for your deadly disease is actually more deadly than the disease.After Friday's great report and being allowed off the oxygen once in a while, I had a sore throat Saturday and Sunday and by Monday afternoon, had brewed up a terrific, frequent, barking cough. The fever Monday night sealed the deal,...http://chimalis.livejournal.com/748044.html Reclaiming some summer- June 8, 2008 Here's a running list for myself, of things that cause cancer (or supposedly do) but that I am not going to (or cannot) avoid. Feel free to comment or contribute.sunchemotherapyartifical sweetenercancer itselfsugardiagnostic scanscharredblackened meat from the grillnon-organic producecaffeineFirst five minutes of thinking led me here. I'm going to keep thinking about this for a while, as part of my big goal for June and July. I plan to completely reclaim these couple months from cancer. I...http://chimalis.livejournal.com/747748.html Good lung news- June 8, 2008 The pulmonologist was thrilled to see Mom and I on Friday. No joke, she really really likes us. She liked my blouse and Mom's skirt, and she liked my breathing scores from a week previous. She liked the sound of my lungs now, and said to quit wearing that oxygen unless I was up and moving around and to, well, get up and move around once in a while. I celebrated hearing that, let me tell you. "No one should be exercising outside in this stuff!" she declared, but that to walk around was...http://chimalis.livejournal.com/747465.html |