whining

I will admit it up front. I am feeling sorry for myself.  I seriously dislike pain, discomfort and/or swelling. I equally do not enjoy swallowing handfuls of pills multiple times a day. As of Tuesday evening, when I took my last dose of the sixth (and LAST) cycle of chemo I thought I was heading back to whatever currently passes for normal.

Oh, was I wrong. I already complained about getting to spend most of Wednesday in the ER and then having to make a trip back over yesterday. This morning I just hung out, looked at the current lap blanket in progress and shrugged. Moved on to figure out what else might be possible.

Audiobooks seemed to be one option, with an extremely short attention span. Reading was even less interesting. I finally pulled out needle, floss and various projects. About 100-200 stitches was about as far as I got on anything before boredom settled in. I am not going to bother with pictures as progress on anything was minimal.

Finally giving up, I settled for some mind numbing computer games. Then, the cherry – both WinZip (not purchased, don’t want and deactivated months ago) kept popping up and trashing my game – > reboot. I have to do a deep search again and figure out what residual I missed. Of course, there is Norton as well which is equally unhappy with me. It wants to scan and keeps opening itself which, again, disrupts the game in progress. Argh. Somethings are better on PCs…. but wiping out programs? Macs drag and drop followed by empty the trash can beats it hands down.

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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