long time no see
wow.. my last blog was in 2007.. well, i'm still here!
I just had another check up with the gyn oncologist and everything is still going well. CA125 is 9, same as last year. Gerry & I are moving tomorrow! I'm so excited. I LOVE LOFTS!
long time
wow... i haven't blogged in a while! i'm still alive!
its still snowing!
I can't believe it... it's the second week of April... and it's STILL snowing!
Milwaukee, I'm coming home
After 8 years of living in California... I'm moving back to Milwaukee, WI. Since cancer, I just want to be closer to family. Although I will miss my brother and his family in Stockton dearly. It's been 1 year and 9 months since the dreaded day and still cancer free!
can I see some ID?
The funniest thing happened to me over the weekend....I don't know if I should be happy or offended. I got carded for buying a lottery ticket! Do I really look under 18? I know there are signs at stores for buying alcohol that says.."If you look under 25, you will be asked to show ID"... or is that for tobacco too. But a lottery ticket? Wonder what he thought when he saw my DOB was 1976. I'm sure people think I have a fake ID when they look at my drivers license. The picture still shows me with long hair. Bouncers at the clubs will look twice at me and my ID because my hair is still short. Some people will ask why I cut my hair so short. Sometimes I just want to say "It's not like I wanted to have cancer" just to see the look on their face.
a sucker for crying kittens
I'm such a sucker for crying kittens. I took another one home thursday night. I got home late that night from work. As I was getting my stuff out of the truck, I hear this cry. I turn around to look where it's coming from. I see this tiny kitten walking towards me from underneath a car crying. It came straight up to me and looked at me with his big eyes. I just feel in love all over again. He hopped into my truck. I just had to take him in. (That's how I got snowball).
Well, I took him upstairs wondering how Snowball would react to another cat. OoOoh, she did not like having another cat in the house. They were hissing at eachother. Well, Snowball started it. So I put the new kitten (Pepper) in the bathroom. He is such an affectionate kitten. He just wanted to be held. When I'd leave the bathroom, you could see his little paws sticking out from underneath the door. Snowball kept a close eye on that door the entire night. Everytime she saw these little paws from underneath the door, she'd hiss and jump at the door. I brought some of Snowball's old toys into the bathroom for Pepper to play with. It was so cute seeing him tackle this little ball. *sigh* i wanted to keep him so bad. but I realized I couldn't keep him... not right now. our place isn't big enough and I don't have enough time get Snowball adjusted to Pepper. The next morning (yesterday) I figured I'd have to take him to the Animal Shelter. He needed a good home. I couldn't put him back on the streets. While I was waiting in line at the shelter, there was this couple behind me. I had Pepper wrapped up like a baby with his head just sticking out. He was scared because there were dogs in line. The couple looked at Pepper and commented on how cute he was. I turned around... and said..."Do you want him?" and just like that, I handed Pepper over to them and asked them to take good care of him.
=( I only had him for a night... but I got attached to him.
colonoscopy
Well... I had my first
colonoscopy yesterday. i
NEVER want to do that again. I'm hoping to never have to do that again. I thought the first colon flush last year for my surgery was bad. I don't know... this time around was horrible! After awhile, I was just flushing out stomach acid. You know how much it burns coming up when you throw up... well imagine it coming out the other end.. over and over and over. They don't put you out completely through the procedure. But you get slight amnesia from the sedation. I actually felt the pain. Not the pain of the tube going in... but I could feel it moving through me. Next thing I know, I'm back in the recovery room. And it's true, amnesia started to set in... because I really don't remember much else. When I came home, I was so out of it. I tried to eat, but threw it up. Then knocked out for 10hrs. I went just about 3 days without eating. I felt so weak this morning. It feels like I did about 200 sit ups last night. It hurts when I walk. The only thing that I got out of this procedure was, I need to eat more fiber. The doc didn't find anything. He suggested that if I eat more fiber, my bowels will move smoother. The pains I've been having are probably scar tissues. when my bowels are moving through my intestines, it's pulling on the scar tissues. This sucks.
