Yearly check-in (apparently)
Hiya,
I was thinking about some LJ friends that I've lost track of and came by to check-- some of you are here! Yeah! I was shocked that it had been almost exactly a year since I posted, but this is still the best place when I need a good read-- so I've been reading you and you all have much more exciting lives than I do!
As for me-- I'm on a new cancer regime for my third recurrence. It's good though-- the recurrence was small and my numbers didn't shoot up too badly this time. The new drugs are different. I've had the lifetime max of Carboplatin, so now I'm on Doxorubicin. The infusion time is much shorter and the side effects are only harsh for like 48 hours and then a lot more tolerable than Carboplatin. And I haven't lost my hair. So far :)
I haven't had to miss any work and I'm still at the same job. Still love it most days, but I do think I've become a crankier soul over the last year. We changed networks and ownership and a lot of my friends have gone on to other things. I still like the work-- I'm so addicted to number crunching-- I really should have studied statistics or accounting or something like that. What was I ever going to do with a poetry degree??
I should have re-read my last postings-- I'm probably repeating myself. But that was a year ago-- You don't remember, do you?! :)
My ex and I have been separated for 5 years now and it suits everyone well. He still spend holidays with us so Emma has her extended family, but she's still in an apartment with me and we are stellar "flat-mates." She keeps talking about getting her own place, but that's as far as it goes-- talking :) Her two best friends-- from childhood-- have both lost their mothers to cancer, so I think we're both torn. It would be different if we weren't so compatible, but we are.
She's waitressing at a home-cooking place of some local renown and loves that. I'm surprised really at how much she loves it, but she's apparently a people person. Unlike her reclusive mother :) And she's made a good circle of friends there.
Some day maybe I'll want a different sort of life, but for now my loved ones seem contented, so it goes...
My parents are doing well. We're close and see them weekly. If I ever win the lottery, I'm going to buy a ranch duplex and get them out of their big house and right next to me. They keep having major issues-- trees falling on the garage, the driveway cracking from the roots-- this town throws some big trees around.
And they were basically homebound for a handful of weekends this winter-- their driveway is STEEP and there's no way they can get out in snow. We started them on Home Chef two Christmases ago and they LOVE that-- the food delivery and the cooking-- so that comes if they really can't get out. And we grocery shop for them if they need us too-- but they are VERY organized and stock well. My father's German mother was fanatical about her food stocks and he's inherited that. He also insists that they NEVER EVER waste leftovers-- or anything else really-- makes my mom nuts sometimes. Nothing but turkey for weeks after Thanksgiving :)
What else? Nothing really. I work and play video games and watch too much Netflix. We finally fired cable and have never missed it once. I'm not going to Ebertfest this year (started today!) because I don't feel save driving alone while I'm on all this medication. Emma and I may do a Champaign trip at some other time-- she hasn't been since she was in elementary school and I have friends I need to see. Or we may take my parents to the beach instead. Conversations continue.
Good to "see" you all!
I'm going to try to be around here more-- but then-- I say that every year :)
I was thinking about some LJ friends that I've lost track of and came by to check-- some of you are here! Yeah! I was shocked that it had been almost exactly a year since I posted, but this is still the best place when I need a good read-- so I've been reading you and you all have much more exciting lives than I do!
As for me-- I'm on a new cancer regime for my third recurrence. It's good though-- the recurrence was small and my numbers didn't shoot up too badly this time. The new drugs are different. I've had the lifetime max of Carboplatin, so now I'm on Doxorubicin. The infusion time is much shorter and the side effects are only harsh for like 48 hours and then a lot more tolerable than Carboplatin. And I haven't lost my hair. So far :)
I haven't had to miss any work and I'm still at the same job. Still love it most days, but I do think I've become a crankier soul over the last year. We changed networks and ownership and a lot of my friends have gone on to other things. I still like the work-- I'm so addicted to number crunching-- I really should have studied statistics or accounting or something like that. What was I ever going to do with a poetry degree??
I should have re-read my last postings-- I'm probably repeating myself. But that was a year ago-- You don't remember, do you?! :)
My ex and I have been separated for 5 years now and it suits everyone well. He still spend holidays with us so Emma has her extended family, but she's still in an apartment with me and we are stellar "flat-mates." She keeps talking about getting her own place, but that's as far as it goes-- talking :) Her two best friends-- from childhood-- have both lost their mothers to cancer, so I think we're both torn. It would be different if we weren't so compatible, but we are.
She's waitressing at a home-cooking place of some local renown and loves that. I'm surprised really at how much she loves it, but she's apparently a people person. Unlike her reclusive mother :) And she's made a good circle of friends there.
Some day maybe I'll want a different sort of life, but for now my loved ones seem contented, so it goes...
My parents are doing well. We're close and see them weekly. If I ever win the lottery, I'm going to buy a ranch duplex and get them out of their big house and right next to me. They keep having major issues-- trees falling on the garage, the driveway cracking from the roots-- this town throws some big trees around.
And they were basically homebound for a handful of weekends this winter-- their driveway is STEEP and there's no way they can get out in snow. We started them on Home Chef two Christmases ago and they LOVE that-- the food delivery and the cooking-- so that comes if they really can't get out. And we grocery shop for them if they need us too-- but they are VERY organized and stock well. My father's German mother was fanatical about her food stocks and he's inherited that. He also insists that they NEVER EVER waste leftovers-- or anything else really-- makes my mom nuts sometimes. Nothing but turkey for weeks after Thanksgiving :)
What else? Nothing really. I work and play video games and watch too much Netflix. We finally fired cable and have never missed it once. I'm not going to Ebertfest this year (started today!) because I don't feel save driving alone while I'm on all this medication. Emma and I may do a Champaign trip at some other time-- she hasn't been since she was in elementary school and I have friends I need to see. Or we may take my parents to the beach instead. Conversations continue.
Good to "see" you all!
I'm going to try to be around here more-- but then-- I say that every year :)