Blogging about the Beast

My chemo started off with a bang yesterday afternoon. I was first given anti-nausea meds, then Cytoxin, then Daunorubicin (a very close cousin of Doxorubicin, or “the Red Devil”), then Vincristine. The cardiologist who read the results of my heart ultrasound came in to tell me that my old ticker was still in remarkably good…

Welp, it happened. I relapsed. The Beast is back, although admittedly the abnormal cell count isn’t nearly as high as it was when I was first hospitalized over two years ago (18% as opposed to 51%). I’ve been in hospital since Saturday, when I spent nearly 10 hours in the ER while waiting for a…

Yep, it’s been an entire month since my last post. Fight me.😆 Lots going on within our semi-quarantined little zoo. Rory just got his first dose of the Covid vaccine, I’ve received my second dose (both Moderna), the girls are enjoying their last days of spring break, we’re making plans to pay off the Subaru…

Wow, it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster ride here for the last five days. I meant to publish another post on Monday but we got slammed with rolling power outages and ridiculously cold weather (for this part of the country, anyway). Beginning early Monday morning before dawn and lasting well into Tuesday, our power…

Gotta make this short because my chores for the day aren’t going to finish themselves and the morning’s already slipping away from me! So, I guess the big news for the day is that I received my first Covid vaccine two weeks ago. It’s the Moderna vaccine so I have another two weeks to wait…

It still feels a bit weird to type “2021” and always does for about a month after the New Year. The first month of this year is a bit more than half over, Inauguration Day is 48 hours away (please God let it happen peacefully), and I’m thinking up more projects around the house to…

A very happy (late) Christmas and a very happy, healthy, safe and prosperous New Year to all! Hey, I can still wish everyone a happy Christmas, it isn’t Twelfth Night yet. So there!😊❤️ We had a wonderful Christmas. I was able to get past my dread of the season (given that I was beginning my…

Holy crap, it’s been three weeks since my last post! Christmas is five days away and the shopping is done, more or less, with some odds and ends still to come to fill in the gaps. I’m once again at a loss as to what I should get Rory. Yes, I already have a giftie…

I think I may have to either A) move my posts back to every two weeks; B) get my butt in gear a bit more on Sunday mornings; or C) live a more exciting life that’s worth writing about, because these blog posts are slowly becoming more infrequent. Not a whole lot is happening and…

Wow, I haven’t blogged for nearly two weeks! Not a whole lot has been going on, other than what everyone has been watching or reading about on the media outlets of their choice. We have a new president (YAY!!!) and, no surprise, Trump refuses to go quietly into that long good night. To a small…