Today I am driving to KC. Not for anything fun per se. Its for surgery prep with mom. I'm gonna be staying at her house for about a week I think after her surgery on the 23rd. Dunno how I am going to physically handle being 24 hour nurse care for someone who can't move well. Needta make sure I am doing my exercises for sure. Mebbe take a Pilates ( Read more... )

https://www.gofundme.com/9f6kt4-get-back-up-again is the GoFundMe.

For those who prefer direct: paypal.me/amywilliamsscott gets it to me and I will apply it all to her account.

X-posted to DW

I have once again hit the place of no fucks left to give. I don't know if I am getting to this place faster or if I hadn't really recovered from the previous one a couple of years back. I am not as numb as I was then but I do know that I am not functioning with a full set of emotions. I am all into get it done mode. I know I am forgetting things. I ( Read more... )

While we were gone to KC for Christmas we paid a friend to paint the interior second floor of our house. It never got completely finished from when we started ~9 years ago. All kinds of health issues were cause by that but we came home and it was done. The living room is a lovely spring-like green which the Honey will eventually get used to. The ( Read more... )

Things are moving along. One foot in front of the other until it is time for bed. Rinse repeat ( Read more... )

Friday I started taking adderall. My friend calls them brain goggles and hereafter I will refer to them thusly. Because it amuses me to great degree ( Read more... )

Mom started chemo today. Which is actually good but is stressful ( Read more... )

the tests from Monday came back negative. There do not appear to be cancer cells that have metastasized anywhere else. The port insertion on Friday went well. They used it Monday to put the contrast in for one of her tests. It apparently hurts to use it ( Read more... )

mom has two different types of breast cancer. All of the lymph nodes they took out showed presence of tumor cells. Friday she gets a port put in for her coming treatments. Monday she gets PET and bone scans to find out if the cancer has spread further than they thought ( Read more... )

The second memorial is done. The words have been posted elsewhere. I have a video file on my phone that I have no idea what to do with but I have it. It was beautiful. It was well attended. It was everything it needed to be. I sang. I didn't suck at it ( Read more... )