6 months

My last chemo treatment was 6 months ago today.

Scan day is this coming Friday.

This time, unlike all of the others, I do not have a doctor visit for my results on the same day as the scan.  I have been told that the nurse will call me with results.

I am hoping beyond hope that this is because they really do not expect anything to be found.

Provided that the results are still stable, when I see the doc on Oct. 20th, I will find out if I can make an appointment for surgery to get the port taken out.

And why wouldn't the results be stable?   The spot in the liver has not changed since the scan done at the end of last years chemo---BEFORE the three months of chemo at the beginning of this year to see if it would change.

I have the whole day off, though and will enjoy the afternoon as best I can

It's pay day, so maybe I will do the bills and see if I can spend a little on some new Halloween decorations or something.

I also have my first dance performance on stage the next evening at an event sponsored by the dance studio I attend, and used to work for.

I can focus on my preparation for that as well.

Today, I am doing three cooking projects, one of which I was supposed to do yesterday, but I had my first really good massage in 7 years yesterday, and could not bring myself to do much of anything all day afterward!

I also have an hour of dance rehearsal at the studio.

On Autumn Equinox, my 7 year anniversary of arriving in OKC as a resident happened.  I didn't even think about it until after the fact.

I view this as a positive.  Gone is the anguish and pain of having to rip up my deep roots and replant myself.

I guess I've settled in here, and accepted it as what has to be.  Took a while, but it was a rough transition to be made.

My new massage therapist is also a transplant, and agrees that it's QUITE a culture shock to come to Oklahoma from somewhere more progressive and realistic.

At least we finally got a Trader Joe's grocery store!

My sister will have to think of other things to send me for Christmas, haha!

Okay, off to the shower and then to the first cooking project.  Rehearsal is sort of in the middle of the afternoon, but is much needed, so I will work around it!

Have a great Sunday Funday!

Back to the grind

The past week was pretty intense at work, trying to get stuff caught up, and doing month end tasks at the same time.

Glad it's over.

Next week should be more "normal."

I have my monthly injection this coming Thursday, and then, a week from Friday is scan day.

Today, I don't feel all that great.  We did a little bit of drinking yesterday, and it seems that I have adapted to drinking less, so that when I DO drink, I feel even more like crap the next day than I used to.

Oh well.  It's all good.

Today, while Dave does his dad's errands, I am cleaning the drained hot tub.  It was time to refresh it.

We purchased it 3 years ago this week, at the state fair, and have never regretted that investment, even though we are still paying for it.

We had another deluge of rain yesterday.  I wonder if any water got in the building I work in.  Probably.

We went to breakfast at Cattlemen's restaurant this morning, and I overheard that the state fair had to move everyone who was there during the storm into the buildings.... Ugh....

It's been a pretty rainy year, which is good.  We have mushrooms in our yard.

So far, the alternate medication I am trying is still causing me to have pain in my joints.  It's different than it was on the other med, but it's still there.  I am giving it time, though.

I have finally found a couple of massage therapists who are willing to trade with me!  I get my first massage next weekend.

I went ahead and renewed my AMTA membership, as I recently found out that state licensure is about to happen in Oklahoma.  If I can get grandfathered in with my national certification before it expires on Dec. 31st, I will go ahead and do that.

If not, I will just retire as I had planned to do anyway.

State licensure changes things, though, because I will be able to practice legally (I let my local license expire a while back, because it's absurd), and renewal is only $25.00, there is no back ground check required, and no office inspection required.

We'll see what happens.

Okay, back out to wipe the tub down.  I already did the first step, scrubbing it out with a sponge and soapy water.

Have a good Sunday!

Jiggedy Jig

Back at Dragons' Roost as of about 7 last night.  Two long days of driving, since we took a detour into Missouri to stay with friends one night.

We came back with unexpected gifts, planned purchases, UNplanned purchases, and stuff that my ex husband had that was mine.

Quality time was spent with everyone, and I am refreshed and relaxed. And fat.

Back to work tomorrow.

Sweet home, Chicagoland

We made it safely to the Chicago suburbs!

Had a great time at the music festival yesterday, seeing one of my favorite bands, Rusted Root, and also Toad the Wet Sprocket,who I love now, and BoDeans.  BoDeans put on a great show. It was so much fun.

Right now, my brother in law and I are sitting on the deck out back, and the gold finches are mere feet away on the feeders.

Later today, lunch at Portillo's,  then dinner at the German place in Lisle, different friends for each. Cook out tomorrow... a full week ahead with many shared meals, making the name of this vacation the 2016 feeding frenzy.

Hope you all have a safe and healthy holiday weekend, and a great week!