Katren...In Conclusion ⋅ 84
Two decades were spent being a Daddy's girl, a young member of Mensa, a winner of essay contests, the author of one published novel, and a proofreader. The second 2 1/4 decades spent as a wife, mother amd Girl Scout Leader, not always in that order. Another 2 1/4 decades in charge of a network of computers in a small college, teaching computer subjects (mostly languages) and running a small educational software company. Since, things have gotten a little various. Read if you wish.
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Father in The Common Room
Normally I would write a tribute to my father here. Today I am very tired and vilnerable,. I find that, deep inside, my heart has not ceased to weep my loss of him in this life. I know that I do ...
Continuation in The Common Room
Please read the previous entry first. There are some pretty good days, when the meds are working and my rate is down. Of course, I'm tethered to the oxygen -- those small portable units are not ...
Whadda Ya KnowAbout That in The Common Room
Well, here I am. If a couple of doctors are right, I may eventually recover. If the othrr is right, not so much. .I've just (yesterday) had my fourth infusion, so today is pretty inactive. The pr...
WHAT? in The Common Room
The hospital sttement arrived today. $196,643,35. I'd have to discover a cure for poverty, aging, and stupidity to be worth that!
What does that mean? in The Common Room
I have left just my signature , as a comment, on some of your diaries. . This insults or confuses a few. What does it mean? It means that I managed to walk to the computer's room and to sit in...
What am I doing? in The Common Room
To me -- not much. According to daughters,-- lots. I am at home, still, for a couple more days, have a daughter here. Twenty days ago, my blood pressurre tanked and I flat-lined. One doctor told...
More update in The Common Room
Am able to sit up, feed self, stagger to bathroom sometimes. Feel very weak and out of it. Have Central line and chest tubes out. Am wearing t shirt. That feels rather human. Have even less visio...
Short Updte in The Common Room
Hospital 20 days. Very septic lung. crashed. 2 daughters traded off staying every minute. Intensley grateful. Very weak . Had first treatment for malt lymphoma. Malt lymphoma easiest cancer to ...
February 5, 2014 in The Common Room
Hospital since Friday, January 31. Not good. Missing escape pod. Send rescue team.
mom in The Common Room
This is Lisa Karen's youngest daughter. Wanted to post an update for her friends. We had a close call. She is in the hospital and stabilized for now. We have a plan of attack developed and are g...
Patrishia in The Common Room
Has anyone seen anything aboout Patricia (Patrishia)? She was schiduled for some risky surgery on the 20th and I've found nothng about her since then.
No title in The Common Room
People have asked for a health update. Very ill after needle biopsy yesterday - high fever, chills, panting, a lot of pain in the place where the needle was inserted (a muscle where I already had...
None in The Common Room
Time for an entry, I suppose. The news from the cultures is negative. This means that they found nothing growing in my lung. The pulmonologist says that he has had a conference with some radiol...
Results - Nil in The Common Room
Once again, no answers. Pulmonologist says he did not find any cancer cells – nor any answers. Says the lung is full of great quantities of dead and live white blood cells. Wants to know what t...
Home in The Common Room
Checking in to say that I’m alive and home. So encouraged by lovely, thoughtful notes. Going down the list trying to make thanks personal. Sore throat last night but gone now. Nose filling thr...
The Night Before in The Common Room
I’ve been very busy staying busy. I’m a born and practicing coward and the scope and lung biopsy tomorrow is something I don’t want to think about. Three levels of fear – first, of the procedure ...
And, Still, Nothing in The Common Room
Some may remember that when I fell at the end of August, the emergency doctor, looking for broken ribs, discovered a clouding of my left lung, which he diagosed as pneumonia. After antibiotics, i...
The (Body) Language of Flowers in The Common Room
Texas has some weird weather. In late October, it got cool- very unusual. It rained a lot - very unusual. Then it got hot and dry again - Usual. The poor plants have a tendency to get mixed up ...
Make It at Mom's in The Common Room
Descendants and I gather several times a year to work on our scrapbook/photo albums. The activity has gotten a little …. tired? … lately. Half a month ago I sent out an e-mail recalling a forme...
In Flanders Fields in The Common Room
By Colonel John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns ...
Belated Birthday in The Common Room
So sorry, my angel love. The first year ever that I've missed it. Daughters, grandson and partner came for holiday make and mend and left after midnight. I almost forgot. Several hours late --...
One step in The Common Room
I finally have an appointment with a pulmonologist - 10 weeks after the shadow was found. Of course, that appointment is another month away and I don't know anyone who knows this guy - just that ...
NoJoMo 1 and 2 in The Common Room
What makes my family unique? Check out my prosebox book "The Befores" That whole thing is about my crazy ancestors. What day would I relive over and over? No thank you. For me, time is eit...
Trying Again & Something Written for The Other Place in The Common Room
After waiting a week, I gave up and called the chosen pulmonologist with whom my PCP was to get me an appointment. Chosen pulmonologist is not taking any new patients. I don't know who was suppos...
Waiting in The Common Room
My primary doc was supposed to make an appointment for me with the pulmonologist last Monday. Here I sit, knowing nothing about that appoinment, and nothing about the shadow on my lung, on Thursd...
