We ended up with 3.5 inches of rain. We really needed it!! Temperatures are dropping, though we’ll still be in the 70s and 80s in the afternoons. But we’ll be getting to 48 on Tuesday morning and 43 on Wednesday. Brr. From 75 in the morning, that’s a drop.
We finally had an inch and a half of rain during a violent storm at 3 am. I got up to unplug my computer since the last storm, 3 months ago, caused trouble with it. We so needed the rain! They predicted it last weekend, but nothing happened.
We haven’t had rain in about 6 weeks, so I was desperate. I don’t care if the grass turns brown. Rain will make it green up again. But when I start losing trees and shrubs, that’s another story.
Off until Monday from appointments, but need to make some for next week. At least I don’t have to do another biopsy for a while. My hip is feeling well enough that I’ll go trick-or-treating with the kids/grandkids. And I’m taking my grandson overnight Halloween night since his sister is staying with a friend. He always wants to stay overnight here. lol
I haven’t been able to do it for months because of being sick. I look forward to it. And I’ll be picking my granddaughter up from school starting Monday afternoon. My hip should be better and I’m no longer tired from the stem cell transplant where I could barely walk.
Well, it was the worst trip into Houston ever. Usually it takes between 35 minutes to an hour (on a really busy day). It took an hour and a half. I was late for my blood draw, which they just take first come, first serve anyway. They were backed up, so I was going to do the stick for the blood draw instead of the picc line because to get 4 people through, it would take an hour and I would miss my biopsy appt. I talked to a lady who had the same cancer as me and she said she would go to the 8th floor and not the 2nd. So that’s what I’ll do from now on. They take about 15 minutes, not a half hour per person and that means an hour if you’re number 5. They have 2 nurses, but on the 8th floor, they have 6, and they don’t take but about 5 minutes to do the picc line blood draw. So why does it take a nurse half an hour between patients on the 2nd floor??? The draw takes 5 minutes or less there too.
Even the stick line was long and took forever. But to do the biopsy, they have to make sure my platelets weren’t too low or my blood wouldn’t clot after the procedure.
I ended up talking to the woman who has the exact same cancer as me, AML but she started in January, so 6 months before me. Almost 7 months, since I had my stem cell July 30th. She had hair! So something for me to look forward to in another 3-4 months.
She had the same experience as me as far as being referred to a different hospital and told they couldn’t do anything for her but palliative care. Like me, she went to MD Anderson after that and had the chemo that put her cancer into remission right away.
Moral of the tale–go to another hospital if you are diagnosed with cancer and they say they can’t do anything for you.
So it was really good talking to her when she had the same experience as me and she’s doing so well.
The bone marrow biopsy was the worst ever. I have a huge hematoma from it and it really hurt more than any other biopsy I’ve done.
On the way home, we only had a 34-minute drive, thankfully. It was just crazy driving in that morning. I even got out of the car and walked to the hospital at one point because the traffic was so jammed up on the road we take to the parking garage, and it’s never been like that before. And we were so late. It took my daughter another 20 minutes to drive 1/8 mile before she could join me and by then, I was getting the blood draw.
Well, I’m off to do another bone marrow biopsy. I hate them because I signed up to do research and they take dozens of samples for that. It’s just awful. I always ask them, “Aren’t you done yet?” If it wasn’t for the research, it wouldn’t be half as bad.
I’ll be glad when this is over with. Then I’ll be sore from that. My hip tendons or muscles or whatever I pulled when I fell are nearly fully healed at least.
I’m sure if I lived in one, I’d be a scullery maid.
Had to water some as we haven’t had rain for weeks now. Even when they predict we’ll get it, we don’t.
I have 3 more chapters to proof on Wolfish, but my cupboards are bare, so need to grab a few things from the store. The prices of food are outrageous, and even when I wasn’t at home and wasn’t using electricity, my electric bill was beyond awful.
I’m about to run in for a dressing change and then back home to work on Wolfish. I’m halfway through proofing it–again. I keep thinking of things I want to add to it. Hope to have it done today. Tomorrow at the latest.
I’m still adding some things to Wolfish, but I think I’m ready to proof it.
It’s still hot, warm in the mornings, not cool. After my fall, my hip is feeling so much better. It’s been 3 weeks, but pulling tendons, or muscles, or whatever takes a while to heal.
I think I can walk around the neighborhood with the kids for trick or treating on Halloween now. Yay!
Still working on Wolfish. Took one of my Havanese in for his annual checkup. He has had a heart murmur since he was a puppy and they said it had gotten worse. So I agreed to an X-ray–$375. Then they said his heart is a little enlarged on one side, and he needs an ultrasound. $775, but they had to confirm that. I didn’t hear back from them. It’s probably a lot more. And I have to go somewhere else to get it.
He’s 11 and acts like a puppy a lot of times, running all over and playing with toys. I didn’t know he had a hurt murmur until I brought him home from the breeder, and I’d fallen in love with him by then. I should have had a vet check him out from the onset. His brother is a half brother and he never had that issue.
Well, I’m off to work on the Halloween story some more!!
I’m still editing Wolfish. Should be done in a couple of days!
Just got back from getting my dressing changed for the Picc line. They might be taking it out soon. It’s nice for drawing blood and getting infusions, but they can end up with a bacterial infection and I don’t want to be hospitalized for that again. They’re talking about putting me on chemo again in a couple of weeks, and my platelets will go down, so I may need replacement platelets because of that.
I’m off to work on Wolfish and I’m making corned beef dinner for the family tonight. If I ever ask if the family wants it, my granddaughter is the first to shout, “Yes!” lol
