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Sometimes, you just start feeling...differently.
I'm down to two first degree blood relatives. My next-to-last has now been diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. Five year survival rate for her type overall: 1 ( Read more... ) -
Cultural blind spot.
I grew up in an area where every winter, the temperature would, at some point, drop below zero and stay below zero, usually for several consecutive days ( Read more... ) -
Hello, me. (:
For starters, I'll just quote my Rumi piece for today wholesale.
BirdwingsYour grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror ( Read more... ) -
Invitation; Winter Holiday of Choice (WHoC) 2011
Consider this your official invitation to come spend any time you might have available on December 24 or December 25th at Chez CatFarm with Tracy Worcester, Rain Donaldson, Pam Benetti, and Cathy Klessig and various random other interesting people ( Read more... ) -
Job update: death.
Today was the first patient death I've had since I started working for hospice. I wish I had something truly poignant to say, but I don't. I am sad, but I'm not at all devastated. I suspect, unless a patient is so flagrantly suffering that death is a clear escape, I will find each death sad ( Read more... ) -
Yard sale reschedule.
Okay, it looks like I'm going to have to move the yard sale off of this weekend. Which weekend it is going to is not yet determined.
On an only peripherally related note, it continues to look very, very likely that I'll like this job. (: -
State of the Tracy, Wednesday, June 15.
About a week and a half into the new hospice job. Still in orientation, unsurprisingly, but, if all goes according to plan, I'll be following a full-scale, at-work, hospice nurse around beginning next week. While judging from this point is difficult at best, what I can say with certainty is that I really, really, like and respect the people who' ( Read more... ) -
Want to get rid of your crap?
I'm hosting a yard sale on the weekend of the 18th. If you'd like to drop off your unwanted clothes, books, furniture, or other things, I'm willing to try to foist them off on others ( Read more... ) -
Don't remember...
...if I posted about the fact that I got a job offer that I'm going to take ( Read more... ) -
Small personal victories.
There is a yoga pose called sarvangasana, or shoulder stand ( http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRZGIl6kMho3itCru1oZahN849jpbF5AK8dHUamVQY5N-t-IrKWRead more... )