Up My Nose Again, But Cancer Free

Today is Sunday, July 31, 2011. The weather has been just gorgeous, however extremely hot. Yesterday was at 100 with a heat index of 110. Not that is hot. This is a picture of what George does at work. He loves working on planes. I am still amazed at how clean everything is even after all of these years.

Went to the ENT doctor on Friday, of course he had to stick that thing up my nose, but cancer free! I go again Thursday for a "baseline" CT scan, which he wants to take a "peak" at. I am feeling pretty good for the most part. It does seem like this time healing is taking much longer to do so. I remember after the first surgery it was about four weeks and my stoma was pretty much healed up and the same after the second surgery. Not this time. It will be five weeks on Tuesday and still not healed up. Maybe my body is saying we aren't in a hurry this time, the last two times we healed right up and you slapped us down. I do know that the radiation is still working in my body. Everyday I get one or two new blisters in my mouth. They usually break the same day and one or two more will pop up. They are only painful if I eat something with acid or citrus.

The dead line for getting my thank you gifts finished is fast approaching, this Thursday, so needless to say have to keep moving on them. I finally found a pattern for a bucket hat to sew at Joann's. However they were out of scrub patterns. So I got the number of the pattern and went on line to find them and I did find one! So excited it should be here Tuesday.

I usually don't say to much about what other people say and do, I just really don't care unless it effects my family. I am talking about things people bring on themselves, you know drama. I don't spend a lot of time on FaceBook but I sure get tired of some folks bitching about things they bring on them selves. The first thing they have to realize is that they have to be a real friend to have a real friend. There is one that I am so tired of hearing her complain, however she isn't a real friend. I know this from personal experience. As long as you are doing for her, she is happy as a pig in poop. She is one of those people that I classify as a "user". I have decided to "unfriend" these people that just complain about their lives. If they would stop the drama, their life would be just fine. I just get tired of reading it, I don't allow it to enter my home so I won't allow it to be on my FB page any longer. Sorry about the venting..........

The girls are doing really good. I discovered yesterday that they not only love cheese crackers, but they also love fortune cookies. They are too funny watching them tear them up. Had to get rid of the rooster, he started attacking people and that was the end of that.

I am thinking that I might like to go contracting this winter with my husband, this time by choice. It is just young son and us now and I do think it might be kind of fun to do. I want to do some more work in the RV like put stainless steal up in the kitchen, so much easier to clean and it stays clean. I would like to also replace the carpet or put a vinyl flooring down in the dining room area. Not real big fan of the carpet there, to much traffic and always dirty. I have to go next week for the CT scan and don't have to go back to the ENT for two months so we shall see if travel is an option at this time.

Young sons monitor on his laptop went out, so I am going to have a yard sale in two weeks. We have sooo much stuff, closets that haven't been cleaned out in 7 months, I haven't been able to get anything done this year, not since January 21, I don't think I will ever forget that date. So needless to say we should make enough money to replace his if we shop at Tiger Direct, they always have good deals on their stuff.

Well I have now been hooked to this humidifier for two and a half hours, it is time to get a load of laundry off the line and get back at the sewing. I will you all a happy, healthy, productive day!

Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow, but live today.~Brightest Blessing~

Better Days

Today is Thursday, July 14, 2011. It was supposed to rain all week, but I took my chances yesterday with laundry and guess what? No rain, washed, hung, folded and put away and still no rain. Which is a good thing, I know, I know we need the rain, however, when it rains here, the sky just opens up, buckets fall from the sky.

Yesterday was mama's 75th birthday. So we got her a Papa John's gift card and her favorite licorice. She loves their pizza and was checking out the licorice before we left. I was so thrilled to hear her say that she wanted to move back into town. She is about 20 to 30 minutes away and it is so hard right now for me to get over there. George has been using my car for work, so I have to wait until after supper to go. Makes for a very long day for this ole gal. I have been going to been be 9:30 or 10:00 every night, no late nights for me.

We got rid of Verizon last month. The price was just out of sight and it was never the same. Every month seemed like there was a surprise, so after I would say 7 years, we are now using a prepaid phone and I like it. Anyway trying to teach mama how to text is crazy. I can't call her and check on her so I try to text her. She tries, bless her heart, but she always rings my phone calling. At least I know she is alright.

I have gotten a couple of things done, not finished. A baby blanket is all put together, but it has to be clipped. Half of the candy is done and my MIL quilt is so close to being done it isn't funny. I have to have it finished by Sunday, George is going to see them, so he needs to take it the candy and the pictures. My energy level seems to be getting better, just not where it was. I don't seem to be able to get things done as fast, I think that's what it is.

Then last night after I put dinner in the oven, young son says mom, there is a fire in the oven. Okay, let me see what is going on in there, well I guess the bottom heating element went out and when it did it caught fire. Lovely, so I put dinner into a smaller pan and put it into the little oven. Now, I need to find a hot plate until my stove is fixed. Son #4 came over while we were over at mom's and I am not sure what he did, but I do know that he threw the breaker and told young son not to let me turn it back on. He does this stuff for a living. So, I am not sure how dinner will be cooked, maybe outside on the open fire like the cowboy days.

Well daughter and her three are supposed to be over today, so I had better get busy on that quilt. The kids usually hang out in the pool while they are here, who could blame them, that's where I use to be.

Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow, but live today.~Brightest Blessing~

It's Over, Now To Start The Healing

Today is Thursday, July 7, 2011. The weather here is wonderful! Yesterday out of the very blue skies came a down pour I haven't seen in a very long time.

Well the radiation treatment is officially over as of last Tuesday. That was the final treatment. The picture above is where I would spend most of my Wednesdays. It is a little park that is across from the treatment facility. It is a beautiful little park, very quiet, clean and well kept. With all of the trees, even on the hottest of days the breeze was very cooling.

I have to say that these weeks of treatment were very challenging. Not just physical but mental as well. I do believe that your mind set in this situation has a lot to do with the outcome. I made my appoints early every morning or as early as I could knowing this was something that I couldn't put off and had to get my butt out of bed to do. No time for the damn this really hurts. No time to play the poor thing me, no had to get up out of that bed and get moving. You have to remember that I had an hour drive each way, so I had to leave home by 6:30 for a 7:30 a.m. appointment. I will now pat myself on the pat that I made every appoint and on time, drove myself all but the last 6 days of treatment, George decided to take 2 weeks off.

I made it through the PT which I owe so much to my PT lady, Vickie. She gave me back the use of my right hand and arm. I will say I was not happy with the fact that I would sit in some very serous pain in my shoulder, with the heating pad. Really weighing what my options were going to be with all of this. She made sure she gave me that well you know, that kick in the butt to be working on things at home. Thank you Vickie!

My radiation team were terrific. I remember the first treatment, I was scared to death, not knowing how well I would handle laying flat on my back. You see after this surgery, laying flat on your back is a real struggle. But, with their help and words of encouragement, I made it through the first session and the other 34!

My radiation doctors both of them are so sweet and so very caring. They really care what is happening to you and they do listen to you! Something you don't see any more. Even with the rest of my doctors, and goodness there are a lot of them, they look at me like a piece of meat. She hugged me and let me know that I could come back at any time to see her, just because I was being discharged doesn't mean I couldn't come see her and if I needed anything to call her.

Well, I didn't know, but George says I did, she told me, the next few weeks were going to be pretty yucky. I felt good, until last Sunday and boy oh boy. I felt like someone had pulled the rug out from under me. The nausea set back in with everything including water. The stiffness was so bad in my neck I was back to turning my whole body again. Now I know why she put me on Morphine twice a day. However, I quit taking it knowing that was the reason for the nausea. So needless to say I took it less than a week and won't be needing it again. Yesterday was better and today even better.

I will get my butt dressed do my home physical therapy and carry on with the things that have been put on the back burner for so many months. I feel like I am so out of the loop with everything, have so much to catch up on!

I have missed all of you!

Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow, but live today. ~Brightest Blessings~