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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Today I got a walker
Posted in chronic illness, foot drop, life besides cancer, melanoma on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And it’s a relief. I’m not more steady on my feet, but I’m not in fear of falling because of being unsteady. I need to name it, and decorate it, and jazz it up some. The doctor was willing to prescribe it, and insurance is fussing, because it’s not needed for a Melanoma diagnosis… duh. [...]
Would you like a Chemo Cap?
Posted in Chemo Caps, life besides cancer on May 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Hi folks. I’ve got the urge to knit right now, and I’m making myself a chemo cap. I’m not having chemo — I’d rather not, but three times through ‘wack it out and toss it’ treatment makes me think that eventually chemo will be in my future. Caps are quick and this one is going [...]
Spelling
Posted in life besides cancer on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some of my posts are appearing with horrible spelling errors. That’s me. When I am not near the big computer and have the chance I end up posting from my phone, which has no spell check. Then when I get the chance I come back and check the spelling from the computer, but sometimes that’s [...]
How do you keep a snow bound eight year old busy?
Posted in life besides cancer, melanoma, tagged dexamethasone, family, home life on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Put her in charge of keeping oil or cream on stretch marks. It’s as good as a nursing job. When I was pregnant the stretch marks were just bothersome because they were colored lines that hadn’t been there before. Thanks to the dexamethasone I have them in many more places, and they hurt and or [...]
Thanksgiving
Posted in chronic illness, life besides cancer, melanoma on November 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Should I be writing that I’m thankful to be alive now? I suppose I am, but it’s not something I was thinking about so much. When my trouble walking was identified as metastatic melanoma rather than the “100 other things” at the end of July, all my thoughts were treatment, rather than immediate death. Death [...]
