So, my surgery was eight days ago and I must say that I’m not doing so well. Now, having said that, this morning when I woke up, the pain was less for sure and I know that means healing is happening. I made the mistake of asking Google how I Read more…
It has been 24 hours since my breast cancer surgery but first I want to talk about my feelings leading up to the day. In the days before the scheduled procedure, I was still at my daughter’s trying to make sure that everything in her house was up to date Read more…
It’s been a while since I wrote anything since life has just been so very busy and I am so very tired. My daughter’s surgery was scheduled and took place several weeks ago and the procedure is such that she cannot drive, use her arm or really her whole left Read more…
Today my grandson got married and I wasn’t there. I have cried many tears that I couldn’t be there on such a happy day with family and friends. I also cried because so many people were upset and yes, also annoyed that I wasn’t there. I didn’t make the decision Read more…
For a long while after we met we were not too enthusiastic about telling people how we met. This was in 2007 and online dating and dating services were not such a thing as they are now. We met through a dating service called Lifemates and it was not like Read more…
One day this week, I was standing at the bottom of my stairs leading to the second floor, just staring up wondering how I was going to get up there. You see, in my house there is a washroom on the second floor and one in the basement but none Read more…
Several years ago I bought a set of IKEA silverware. It wasn’t expensive and it has plastic handles on all of the pieces. I like buying kitchenware at IKEA because it’s not costly and I can change to new ones whenever I like without guilt. I say without guilt because Read more…
So today I am going to get the results of my second systoscopy! Last week was my second systoscopy and I arrived at the appointment knowing from the last test that the doctor was going to find a piece of something (mesh, thread, I don’t know what) and then make Read more…
It’s interesting the things you think about when you’re just sitting around doing nothing. I say that because I don’t think I ever before in my life just spent time sitting around doing nothing. I had a conversation with my (ex) sister-in-law the other day about this whole doing nothing Read more…
I know that it seems kind of weird for an almost seventy-three year old woman to be talking about boobs. In fact, I must say that I’ve not done a lot of thinking about them over the years. I was raised in a fairly conservative family so we certainly didn’t Read more…