Well, to get in the Coles notes version of my 2017 so far,
my mother passed away due to an unexpected illness on January 3rd in
which we buried her on the 9th, for which still throws me for a loop
when you see a person that often especially after the past six years and the special person isn't there anymore. The 9th
a friend of ours passed away from a terminal battle with cancer, on the 10th
a goodtime friend who was down for Mom’s funeral fell down some stairs and
broke his heal and femur. My sister, her boyfriend and the family friend had a
literal up and down with the airplane to Halifax and Toronto in which after the
parts were needed in NS and they scrapped the plane in TO, which made for one long day to get them back to British Columbia. Then came the MRI which
was supposed to be a breeze on January 15th which turned out they
picked out three spots of potential cancerous tissue for which I was scheduled
to go back under the knife on January 24th. Ah the fun times of such
an awesome year.
Today is February 24, the brain surgery was a success and I can almost drive and lift over five
pounds again which is a sigh of relief. A lot of people don’t know or realize
that anyone who has any major surgery has to wait an additional four to six
weeks of not being able to lift or drive or even bend over whom had a craniotomy.
Luckily, the nurse who I saw when I was discharged, which in fact was sent home
after a measly five days after my surgery as there was no room at the Inn, I only have to wait a month to get
back into the swing of things once again and believe you me, it can’t get here
quick enough. I’ve had enough Netflix and not being able to do hardly anything
but have slowly snuck some things in to save my sanity. I do have to go back to
get a MRI done next month to see how the surgery went but that’s the least of
my worries.
My CT results which I got this week was finally good, the
only report I was scared of. Everything is stable as of now and the last TACE
procedure that I had back in November has actually shrunk down the cancer in my
liver which is a definite bonus. This means no more surgery for me at the
moment which is a fine relief to both Cavell and I.
I’d like to thank those who made it out to see me this past
month, whether it be via text, Facebook message or visit as it kept me in the
loop and always helps knowing that people do have your back when you’re stuck
with a crappy disease. It also was dawned on me that I could complain about
having cancer and go through the repeated surgeries that I tend to go through
(at the moment there is five major surgeries, three port surgeries, three TACE
procedures, multiple CT and MRI’s, over 50 rounds of chemo and 20 rounds of
radiation) but that’s not my style. :) I believe that everything happens for a
reason and for some profound lucky reason I was given this, not by choice mind
you but to offer the ‘out’ that people may need that I can provide.
It’s been a while since I posted anything to either website
recently, YACC or my blog, as I was lucky enough to have writer’s block along
with not giving a care in the world about writing which was a curse and bonus. Yes of course you need to take some time off
and rehash some of the things that have come to light recently but it wasn’t
good in a way as it hampered me in sharing some of my stories. I promise to the
lucky viewers that it shouldn’t take me this long again to write something as
worse comes to worse, I have a good few recipes. :)
