So life here has been pretty stressful recently. And I don’t post about the rest of my life so much on this blog. So here is a little bit about the rest of my life for a change:
As I type my daughter is alternating between dancing and telling me what her next art project [...]
Archive for June, 2009
There is more to life
Posted in life besides cancer on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why Two Blogs?
Posted in life besides cancer on June 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For me these days it’s three if you count face book. I gave in and joined them when someone from school invited me. I keep things shallow there. The main two are this one, and the one that has existed for family as long as I’ve known what a blog is. We moved across the [...]
Now I’ve Fallen
Posted in chronic illness, life besides cancer, melanoma on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So the rented wheel chair doesn’t fit through the doorway of the last room before our downstairs bathroom. I can wheel up to the door, then use the walker to get to and into the bathroom. Not too bad.
I got back to the doorway and was at the point of turning myself and the walker [...]
Sleep? Nah
Posted in chronic illness, life besides cancer, melanoma on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’d like to be sleeping. The dogs shoved out through the screen door at 1:30, knocking over the grate that’s supposed to keep them from doing that. John came to see if I wanted to go to the toilet then. I’ve been worried about walking without the brace on my foot and can’t put it [...]
Still voting for scartissue
Posted in chronic illness, foot drop on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had physical therapy today — PT intake, etc. I like the therapist. She does not like my plastic boot — and has ideas about what it should be, although whether insurance will pay for #2 so soon after #1 is debatable.
She says, however taht this isn’t just “foot drop” but right leg er the [...]
I didn’t fall
Posted in melanoma on June 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I still ended up stuck on the bathroom floor while we figured out what to do.
Haveing gotten a shower with my nice new hand-me-down shower chair (what a life saver!) the next trick is how to get me out. And how we did it last time is never quite clear. Not using the [...]
Plastic Boot
Posted in foot drop on June 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I got my AFO boot. It stops my foot from trying to turn itself over which is wonderful, since I turned my ankle three times in three days before getting it, despite wearing a lace up brace to stabilize it as much as I could. It took two hours for the tech/specialist/whatever-she-was to fit it [...]
This mobility thing
Posted in chronic illness, foot drop, melanoma on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m doing ok getting around with a walker, and I understand better what happened to cause the need for it, but it’s all damn inconvenient.
The cancer started it.
The same place in my brain that the tumors set off swelling in last summer, got hit by the radiation on its way to killing one of the [...]
8th Grade
Posted in life besides cancer on June 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today the 8th grade at my daughters Waldorf school graduates. They’ve had a hard run of it changing teachers several times when the Waldorf ideal is one teacher from first through eighth. I don’t actually know ant of these students by name.
It’s the last class like that until the one starting next year. I’m planning [...]
No New Cancer!
Posted in chronic illness, melanoma on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had a standard follow up CT scan yesterday. I got the results today. Nothing new. No changes, no tumors, nothing that shouldn’t be there.
I didn’t realise how worried I’d been until I started crying.
I’ll keep on with the mantra. I’m done with cancer. I’m not having any more cancer for now. Yes I live [...]
