When family crises happen I always feel heartless because everyone else in my family starts having an emotional reaction immediately whereas I barely feel a thing right away. I have to process it first, and until that happens I just feel... nothing. Not good, not bad, just functioning. I think I've said "I know... I know... I know" to my parents 20 ( Read more... )

The cancer has spread to the liver, lungs, and bones. Heading down to the hospital now.

I've been meaning to make an entry for days but every time I have a spare second to sit down and actually write, I don't feel like it. I'm taking a break now from the day-before-Christmas baking/cooking, so let's give this a shot ( Read more... )

Angeline's here at the house.

She has breast cancer in her liver and right lung. They're putting her on chemo for the rest of her life and if she doesn't respond to it there's nothing they can do.

I should be feeling more but I'm not.

MY MOM'S BIOPSY CAME BACK BENIGN.

I AM A HAPPY PANDA.

Spending an hour on the phone with Blue Cross Blue Shield being grilled on everything that's happened to me in the last six months was just so much fun.

I don't believe I've relapsed today, but I'm certainly not better. I'm just feeling kind of... blah. I'm muscular sore around my middle, most likely from coughing. I decided to stay home today and just pid-fiddle around the house. Maybe go through the donation boxes around here and separate "Women's Shelter Resale Shop" from "Goodwill". Maybe ( Read more... )

I haven't written a con report because right after I got back a cold front decided to come through that sent my sinuses for one of their semi-annual spins. Good news is it's going about 3x faster than it normally does, so I'll be back to normal in a couple days. At least I know how best to deal with this when it happens. Tons of fluids and lots of ( Read more... )

I got the results of my blood tests back for the vitamin B12 and D. I'm very low in D (it's supposed to be something above 44, I believe, and mine is at 19), and I'm dangerously low in B12 (it's supposed to be 400-something and mine is 100-something). Apparently being very, very low in B12 can cause irreversible damage to the nervous system and can ( Read more... )

My mom had an appointment with our doctor today to go over some blood work she had done last week completely unrelated to the mammogram. She was scared she was going to be diabetic because it runs strong on her side of the family and she had been borderline before. As it turns out, she's not diabetic and not even borderline anymore; her sugar is ( Read more... )