thedza:

What is wrong with me?

what is right with you?

visiting Daddy at chemo

vmarinelli:

I just tiptoed into my nine year old’s room in a fruitless search for this book, which I was hoping to consult while at work on a story based on my own experience as a nine year old. (By that age, I’d been to at least ten schools and had moved all over the place. It’s really hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that I was my youngest daughter’s age when all kinds of crazy shit happened to me.)

Back then, the Nancy Drew books were a great escape outlet for me. So when my search turned up nothing (although she could certainly have had a copy hidden under some calamitous pile of stuff… I didn’t want to wake her by rooting around too forcefully, though), I searched Amazon for a copy and was completely dumbfounded to learn it’s available on Kindle.

If I win the lottery,* I am totally buying a fancy new Kindle and loading all the Nancy Drew books on it. And when I’m buried in one of them and someone asks what I’m reading, I will claim to be reading War and Peace or some such thing.

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* Which I never actually play.

Until you win the lottery, you can download the Kindle for the PC app for free. Of course, I’m not sure it’d be much fun to read a book on a laptop. It might be. I actually prefer the Kindle app on the iPhone since it’s backlit (and also free). There’s supposed to be a version for the Blackberry coming along soon, too.

GPOYW next to your husband who’s getting Day 1 of chemo he wasn’t expecting to start until tomorrow, but is starting today because it’s going to be a 3-day regimen this time. (Dark glasses to shield from migraine-inducing fluorescent lights.)

And, because I know you’re all wondering, yes, they ARE playing Christmas carols NONSTOP to serenade us.

shoesonwrong:

I’m afraid I may die here.

i’m not sending help, but did apply a heart to this prior to reblogging to show i care.

Just booked 2 tickets to Sandy Eggo. I may not be able to drive my boy to Legoland for his 13th birthday, but I can fly him there.

Waiting

theduty:

SARAH PALIN BOOK SIGNING - Interviews with Supporters.

kill me now.

by “supporters” you mean pantyhose, right?

itsapinkbear:

theduty:

exactly how i see it.

Now you mention it, me too.

summing up 2009

asav:

jhulyjohns:

please, don’t (via Libelulas)

wisdom.

yayaa:

quietbrava:

jhulyjohns:

I could look at this for minutes

THIS makes me laugh. I must’ve been dropped as a child.

i’m considering watching this for the duration of chemo. both days. each session.

Breaking news: Doctor Who Saw My Butt Cheeks called this evening to say he thought of one more thing after I left. [insert inappropriate comment here] He’d like to order an MRI of my spinal cord to check for any abnormalities. (The previous MRI was of my lumbar area.) It would be rare, he said, but worth doing just to rule out the possibility.

Bone marrow biopsy came back clear.

PET scan shows the lymphoma is back.

We meet with the oncologist Wednesday to discuss the treatment plan. He did tell my husband that this time chemo will be administered over 2 days instead of one. Not sure if this will mean inpatient or just coming in 2 days in a row. Need to polish up my list of questions for Wednesday.

Tomorrow is his MUGA scan to make sure his heart is okay before they start chemo.

My trip to the Spine Clinic was depressing. The doctor says my MRI shows nothing in the spine that would be causing my problems—not the Tarlov cyst nor the minor arthritis. Suggests I see Gyn, possibly Neuro to explore other sources. Might even be fibromyalgia-related. Thankfully, I got to undress from the waist down, but keep my underwear on (thongs) and perform repeated tasks while wearing an open-backed gown.

Awesome.

Really hope he enjoyed the show.

I’m going to have to find some kind of portable chair that’s comfy for me to sit in during his chemo treatments.

Blue Beanie Me (via califmom)