Recently, I woke up in the middle of the night, slightly panicked. I couldn’t remember if I had been dreaming, and there wasn’t any thunder rolling outside. I checked my cell phone. No texts or missed calls. Yet a sense of dread hung heavy over me. I fluffed the pillow, and as I turned over […] Read more
Last night, I got stuck. There were no mud puddles or snow drifts involved; I wasn’t knee deep in quick sand or trapped between a rock and a hard place. I was just walking through the grocery store when my thoughts jammed tight and wouldn’t let me go. “I’m doomed,” I thought from somewhere deep […] Read more
Whoever said it takes only 21 days for something to become a habit must have been doing something fun, or easy. Because I’ve been going to bed at 9 p.m. for 36 days now, give or take a couple of days, and it still doesn’t feel natural. In fact, I’m probably going to stay up […] Read more
Yesterday evening, as my sister and I were heading out for a quick errand, I passed by the furnace in the laundry room, and something sounded amiss. The furnace would light and attempt to kick on, then nothing. Assuming it was a fluke, we left as planned. Later, when we came home with pizza and […] Read more
On Sunday, I had two women from church over to my house for a meeting, and since I didn’t know if they were dog people, Precious was confined to the laundry room. She barked and whined when I latched the gate; she hates to be alone, especially if she knows I am nearby. But she’s […] Read more
Last weekend, I was at my mom’s helping her clean up her flower beds. It is that time of year, you know. Most of her beautiful perennials have already strutted their summer stuff, and now they are mostly brown and droopy. Left on their own, the dry, crunchy leaves and stems would eventually fall to […] Read more
Yesterday, I met with the oncologist who will be performing my surgery on June 30. I learned that he will be making as small of an incision as possible, from his hand signals probably 4-6 inches, and part of that will be over my scar from last fall. Hopefully the recovery from this surgery will […] Read more
I received the results back from my PET scan today, and though it did confirm that the one enlarged lymph node is cancer, thankfully, it also confirmed that the cancer has not spread any further. There is one other suspicious lymph node, but it was not enlarged and not definitively malignant. At this point, the […] Read more
