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Scheduling Mayhem!
Time for another episode of Medical Mayhem!
Actually, things are calming down. Not that my blood pressure agrees, but maybe after I get some sleep.
Let's cut to the chase, shall we? I have a port implantation scheduled. Sorta. First it was one day, then it was another, due to ever-shifting surgery schedules. It's not just the surge...
9/30/2025 9:03:02 PM
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More Medical Mayhem
Got up this morning, had a cup of coffee and my limited meds, started in on the water, and the phone went off. Turns out my PCP is not in today. Hey, she's good people and I've no doubt she's out for a good reason. Getting my appointment rescheduled among all the uncertainty was a challenge, but the office employee was patient and had a sense of humor about it.
All this was on top of anothe...
9/30/2025 8:50:39 AM
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Health/Life Update
Medical/life update:
When we last left our thoroughly frustrated cancer patient, she was begging for doctors to talk to each other to get a port implant so they could start chemo. Let's listen in on her current troubles:
It's been a Monday, folks. This morning I went in to check on my appointment with the surgeon tomorrow, and notic...
9/29/2025 9:07:30 PM
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Health Update
A lot has happened in the past eight days, and it's been terribly frustrating. The oncologist sent the order to the surgeon to have the chemo port inserted - twice - and the latter either never got it or they lost it. When I called the surgeon's office this morning (the second time this week) to follow up, they finally said they'd schedule me. "We don't have an opening until February." But my chemo is scheduled to start Monday.
Please hold.
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9/25/2025 8:44:21 PM
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Some Good News on the Medical Front
Friday was my follow-up with the oncologic surgeon. This doctor has not sugar coated anything so far, so you might imagine how pleased I was when, after we got through the pleasantries, he told me he had some good news for me.
They got it all! He said they took something like 47 lymph nodes along with the tumor, and every single lymph node was clear.
What's next? He is referring me to an oncologist. There may or may not be a round of "just to be ...
8/18/2025 2:56:53 PM
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Time For a Health Update
Y'all, I've been pretty quiet lately, and with good reason. I'm trying to stay upbeat about this, but the fact is that part of the reason I'm in this position is that I've avoided self-care because I'm either caring for other people or doing work for other people so they could go take care of their third side hustle, take a vacation, avoid answering emails, whatever. And yes, I am just a tad resentful.
Okay, so that's out of the way. What's going ...
8/7/2025 4:59:24 PM
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Catching Up
For an old sorta retired lady, I've been busy!
I have a couple of convention appearances coming up, and we'll be taking K-9 to Fan Expo Dallas again this year. Stop by the British Emporium booth.
I'm working on a new electronics prop project that I hope to debut at SoonerCon. It's been a real challenge!
(Warning: Geek Speak ahead!) I'm working on a presentation on wireless control for props and costumes. The current project...
5/9/2025 9:17:39 AM
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An "Old People" Day
Today we went to do something "old people" do. In other words, we took off for a day trip!
Our destination was Canton, TX for First Monday Trade Days.
First Monday is a giant flea market that takes place the weekend before the first Monday of the month. We hadn't been in years, and thought it might be fun to go out when the crowds were, in theory, thinner. They were today because it rained. It was mostly light rain, so our wind...
4/3/2025 4:49:31 PM
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Easing Into A Different Life
Well, here I am, easing into semi-retirement. The good news is that my creative brain is starting to work again. I spent a chunk of yesterday working on some research for a novel. So when do I start writing? I think I'm getting close. There are still a few things I need to sort out.
My biggest issue was that I didn't like my main character a lot. It's okay to have an unlikeable main character, but she wasn't even unlikeable. She was just "meh." I need to flesh her backst...
4/2/2025 2:02:24 PM
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Time For A Bit Of Catch-Up
Oh, good. I just lost an enormous post. Let's see if I can re-create it.
So, we're (mostly) retired now. Paul fully retired in February, and I retired from almost everything except creative work (does one ever retire from that?) at the end of February.
I joked that I wanted to walk out of FenCon and onto a cruise ship. Hey, I came close! I walked out of FenCon on a Monday, and then the following Saturday we boarded a plane to Ft. Lauderdale, spent the ...
3/25/2025 4:46:08 PM
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