Life goes on.
Sorry for the silence over the last couple of months. Life has gone on and things here have been busy.
The best part of missing a couple of episodes is that it was not due to my health being crap.
Nope. This time it’s because people are being crap. But that’s a completely different kind of post. Or maybe I should write about it in a book and have Karma slap the shit out of the crappy people.
Anyway, I had my breast surgeon checkup last week and all is well.
At least it is if we ignore the side effects of the meds I’m on.
The worst of which are the hot flashes and the joint aches (particularly in my ankles).
Hot flashes keep me up at night and when you suffer from insomnia it’s a whole new level of hell and exhaustion but I’m dealing. Barely some days, but I’m getting through one day at a time.
Joint aches are a little annoying except when they’re in your ankles and make it extremely difficult to walk a lot of the time. Some days I’m hobbling like a little old woman, and while 54 isn’t THAT old, it’s getting there and the little part will definitely never be me. I’m just under six feet without shoes. I swear, I must look like a drunk giraffe most of the time.
Aside from that I’ve had an eye infection due to being punched in the face by Gbaby #7 who managed to scratch my eyeball. I had to limit my screen time (and by limit I mean remove any screen from my life!) luckily I have a Kindle Paperwhite so I could still read although that was slow going because I couldn’t really see most of the time.
Imagine this, eyes so bloodshot I looked like the lead character in a zombie movie. Fluid the color and consistency of milk leaking out continuously. The drunk giraffe I mentioned earlier bumping into everything. Wall, doors, chairs, people!
Now imagine that while walking through 2 airports!!!
I don’t know how I didn’t get stopped from either leaving Oz or coming in to Singapore.
And THEN I get home to find Mr.C sick with a chest and ear infection that rendered him deaf in one ear. It was the blind leading the deaf for a full week in the Princess Tower.
We’ve both since recovered (me more than Mr.C who still doesn’t have full hearing but it’s slowly coming back) which is good because we’re currently entertaining three Gbabies and their entourage (aka their parents).
It’s been busy and chaotic but we’re loving every second of it.
We’ve made up for the years of Covid-stopped travel in the last few months too. We’ve had two out of three Gbaby sets visit us (the next is due at the end of the month) and I’ve been to Oz twice. Once for a week in May, then a two week trip in June and I’ll be back there again in August for the youngest Gbaby’s 1st birthday. How did that happen!! I swear it was just yesterday #8 was born!!
Aside from that we’re gearing up (aka packing bags) for a quick trip across the water to Indonesia for a few days. There will be massages, swimming in the pool, massages, lazing by the pool, massages, drinking by the pool, massages, eating by the pool, oh! did I mention massages?!
I’m looking forward to the trip and I can’t wait to watch the Gbabies making the most of the water slide. The last ones we took couldn’t get enough of it.
One thing the last few months have made clear. Even though I’ve been busy and life has gone on I still think about having cancer. A lot more than I thought I would at this stage. I’m still paranoid about every little health thing, and I’m reminded every time I get ready to get on a plane because I have to wear a compression sleeve on my left arm, and I have such mixed emotions every time I put it on but I’m so, so grateful for the fact I’m here staring down the two year mark of being cancer free.
I won’t know for sure on the exact two year anniversary because I don’t go back for my next round of tests until November 20th. I don’t know how I feel about that. I kind of want to know on August 31st that everything I’ve done has kept me cancer free.
I guess I’ll just have to assume I am and be ready for whatever the scans say in November. I’m going to stay positive and expect them all to be clear. It’ll be the best early Christmas present I’ve gotten in a while.
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