Managed another update before the next chemo, go me! I'm so lazy when it comes to updating, I know ( Read more... )

Second chemo, done! This is how it works: blood test in the morning, then a brief talk with the doctor, then by noon I start with the drips until 5 pm. The doctor told me I'm doing great and I'm healing quite quickly. I was over the moon! I'm also still processing it, to be honest. It's huge. My hair is still attached to my head, but she says it'll ( Read more... )

First things first, here's the latest health update. Chemo is indeed a magical medicine, like my therapist always says. Five days in, I started having the side effects as they had been described to me by the doctor, and at the same time I started feeling better. The pain is slowly regressing, my back hurts less, I stopped coughing, and I feel ( Read more... )

Health update first, the tracheitis is slowly going away. I still have the stupid cough, but I changed medicine and went for a more aggressive cough syrup, and I'm finally getting some results. At least now the coughing fits last only a few seconds, and I don't sound like a chain smoker anymore. Hurrah!


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It's been raining for 24 hours, and it looks like November outside. Me, I'm on the first day of my period and woke up with a serious cold, so I had to cancel my plans, as I'm not allowed to go to mom's hospital when I'm sick. Very delicate patients, outside infection, not a happy combination. So I made my calls, made myself some chamomile tea, and ( Read more... )

First, obligatory rant about the heat. It sucks, it's going to last until friday, it's unbearable, I found myself hyperventilating five minutes after leaving the house and had to forcefully slow my breathing. Stupid humidity. Stupid global warming.

Now that that's out of the way, here's a new Reading Bingo entry!


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What a day, what a lovely day (shiny and chrome)! Two new episodes I'd been waiting for for months were waiting for me when I woke up! That, and I found a lot less ants than I feared: there's been the usual infestation, as they do every summer without fail. This time though I've been battling it with poison spray and vacuum cleaner for three days ( Read more... )

The heatwave is coming, and I'm ready. It isn't here yet, we're having sunny days but with a lovely wind, but I've already bought juice, lots of fruit, mint syrup, I cleaned up the air conditioner filters, I'm basically ready for the summer apocalypse. My aunt is coming on thursday, and she already told me what to make her for dinner when she gets ( Read more... )

On Monday I had a most wonderful evening: a dear friend invited me to a night at the Opera! At the La Fenice theater, the Opera Theater here in Venice, where I hadn't been in years. The philharmonic orchestra there played pieces by Béla Bartók, Johann Strauss and Leoš Janáček (here's the poster), and it was absolutely magical. The Strauss one was ( Read more... )

Today we are going to talk of something special, my very first, and favourite anime of all time: Cowboy Bebop. That's because today the blu ray boxset arrived, and it's fantastic, and I've waited for it ever since they invented the blu ray. But first, a little history!


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