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Monday, May 14, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
No News Is Good News!
Sorry this blog has been silent! I have been busy, and fortunately, have not had any challenges worth mentioning. That's why I say no news is good news!
Health-wise I am doing pretty well. There is still some neuropathy in my feet and sometimes hands It is not painful, but I have lost my balance and landed on my ass trying to make a great big tee shot! Yes, there is still golf...this week at Bellerive and Westwood!
A second drawback is the fatigue. I do best on days that I get to take a 2-3 hour nap, and I am winded with relatively mild activity. I still life weights three days a week and have been going other days to do cardio to increase my stamina. The chemo schedule is still three Tuesdays on and one off. The end of this month I will have a CT to see the status of the cancer.
So, overall, i feel like things are going really well. I am not in pain, and I am not throwing up; that is good!
Shawn, I did finally cut my straggly hair over at Alison and Mary Sue's. Pictures are included! But, I am just at 1/2 inch...not shaved. So, you are safe for now!
Jo is still keeping track of my medicine, because my memory is shot. Sometimes I can come up with what I am trying to say within a few minutes. Work stuff is easier to remember than personal stuff and names. But at least I am usually taking the rights pill and the right shot at the right time.
I have been able to be at work and do work at home more than I expected I would, and that contributes to the fatigue. We are taking over the Medicaid nursing in our program, and although my role is supportive, I have some of the history and relationships that contribute to a very complicated process for our staff. My job partner, Joe, our Administrator, Kim, our new CFO, Steve, and our social workers, Joan and Chien, are all doing a great job!
The big news is that I am going to Africa! You know we have been working on a birthing center in Gulu (see www.maternityclinicgulu.com), and finally the land issue has been solved. You can see a google earth photo of the site on the website. JoAnn is going over next week for two months to push the selection of a builder, and I am going in July with two friends, Don and Buff, for 10 days. We will all come home together in plenty of time for JoAnn's jubilee in August. And that will be a great event. My friend, Rose, and I are dusting off our sewing skills to make her an Africa themed outfit for the ceremony. Fingers are crossed!
During early April Cec came for my birthday and a couple of awards I was receiving. One was the Doorways Edlin Award, and the other was the Civil Rights Enforcement Agency Award for Distinguished Service in Fair Housing. It was great to have her here, and I think it was reassuring for both of us for her to see me upright and doing well! She likes her new digs at Carondelet Center. Her room looks out to the Getty and to the Pacific beyond.
Arch and Deb also came from Michigan to check up on me and we all stayed out at Rosie and Sue's for a couple of days. Fun slumber party!
My great friend, Evelyn Cohen, and her son Andy of Bravo TV, were featured in the Parade Magazine Mothers' Day issue, and his new book, Most Talkative, is taking St. Louis and the media world by storm. It has been fun. Buy the book!
Speaking of books, the best thing I have read recently is Jewball, about a professional Jewish basketball team in New York in the 30's. It is great! I have also read Fifty Shades of Grey (interesting and disturbing), Defending Jacob, three by Kristen Hannah, Gilead-a Novel, Wading Home-A Novel of New Orleans, An Eve Duncan Collection by Iris Johansen, the Hunger Games Trilogy, Remarkable Creatures: A Novel, The Habit by Susan Morse, Crossed Dressed to Kill, The Orphan Master's Son, Little Bee, Down Town by Ferrol Sams (a friend of Jo's), the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Fat is the New Thirty: The Sweet Potato Queen...
And, we saw a great movie: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
So there, that's all I can think of for now. Thank you for all the love and prayers!
Lynne
Health-wise I am doing pretty well. There is still some neuropathy in my feet and sometimes hands It is not painful, but I have lost my balance and landed on my ass trying to make a great big tee shot! Yes, there is still golf...this week at Bellerive and Westwood!
A second drawback is the fatigue. I do best on days that I get to take a 2-3 hour nap, and I am winded with relatively mild activity. I still life weights three days a week and have been going other days to do cardio to increase my stamina. The chemo schedule is still three Tuesdays on and one off. The end of this month I will have a CT to see the status of the cancer.
So, overall, i feel like things are going really well. I am not in pain, and I am not throwing up; that is good!
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Jo is still keeping track of my medicine, because my memory is shot. Sometimes I can come up with what I am trying to say within a few minutes. Work stuff is easier to remember than personal stuff and names. But at least I am usually taking the rights pill and the right shot at the right time.
I have been able to be at work and do work at home more than I expected I would, and that contributes to the fatigue. We are taking over the Medicaid nursing in our program, and although my role is supportive, I have some of the history and relationships that contribute to a very complicated process for our staff. My job partner, Joe, our Administrator, Kim, our new CFO, Steve, and our social workers, Joan and Chien, are all doing a great job!The big news is that I am going to Africa! You know we have been working on a birthing center in Gulu (see www.maternityclinicgulu.com), and finally the land issue has been solved. You can see a google earth photo of the site on the website. JoAnn is going over next week for two months to push the selection of a builder, and I am going in July with two friends, Don and Buff, for 10 days. We will all come home together in plenty of time for JoAnn's jubilee in August. And that will be a great event. My friend, Rose, and I are dusting off our sewing skills to make her an Africa themed outfit for the ceremony. Fingers are crossed!
During early April Cec came for my birthday and a couple of awards I was receiving. One was the Doorways Edlin Award, and the other was the Civil Rights Enforcement Agency Award for Distinguished Service in Fair Housing. It was great to have her here, and I think it was reassuring for both of us for her to see me upright and doing well! She likes her new digs at Carondelet Center. Her room looks out to the Getty and to the Pacific beyond.
Arch and Deb also came from Michigan to check up on me and we all stayed out at Rosie and Sue's for a couple of days. Fun slumber party!
My great friend, Evelyn Cohen, and her son Andy of Bravo TV, were featured in the Parade Magazine Mothers' Day issue, and his new book, Most Talkative, is taking St. Louis and the media world by storm. It has been fun. Buy the book!
Speaking of books, the best thing I have read recently is Jewball, about a professional Jewish basketball team in New York in the 30's. It is great! I have also read Fifty Shades of Grey (interesting and disturbing), Defending Jacob, three by Kristen Hannah, Gilead-a Novel, Wading Home-A Novel of New Orleans, An Eve Duncan Collection by Iris Johansen, the Hunger Games Trilogy, Remarkable Creatures: A Novel, The Habit by Susan Morse, Crossed Dressed to Kill, The Orphan Master's Son, Little Bee, Down Town by Ferrol Sams (a friend of Jo's), the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Fat is the New Thirty: The Sweet Potato Queen...
And, we saw a great movie: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
So there, that's all I can think of for now. Thank you for all the love and prayers!
Lynne
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