21 Friday Feb 2020
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appointment, big girl pants, blessed, diabetes, doctor, moments, route, stroll, walk, weather, widow
had a lovely walk this morning…
exactly a week since I took the same route on a freezing morning… quite a difference today…
today I parked much further down the street and enjoyed the stroll to and from my appointment, where my doctor was pleased with my blood pressure, A1C and heart…
looking forward to more walks in nicer weather…
26 Friday Oct 2018
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adapt, appointment, big girl pants, breakfast, buddy, English Garden, friend, geese, halloween, honking, insurance, Leo Mol Garden, neighbours, widow
this morning I started my day at the clinic doing bloodwork before my next appointment…
on my way back to the car I kept having to stop and watch the geese flying overhead… I cannot keep from looking up when I hear them honking…
then I met up with my walking buddy… we had breakfast at The Park Cafe, and noticed that all the geese that usually spend time in the pond were off filling up somewhere else, lol… afterward we wandered through the English and Leo Mol Gardens which are rather sad just now but it was great to be outside…
I dropped her off and we checked out her newly renovated garden… as I was leaving I got this pic of a neighbour’s Halloween decorations;-)…
when I arrived home, had a lovely visit with one of my neighbours… haven’t been outside at the same time for ages so it was great to catch-up… they usually spend a few months at their property in Arizona but with health issues they can’t get insurance so will be selling… they do have a winterized cottage just outside the city, so will spend time there…
seems like we have to adapt quite a bit as we get older…
24 Friday Aug 2018
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appointment, Baby, big girl pants, blessed, camping, friends, Indi, lunch, moments, Park, pretzel, walk, whisperer, widow
been a full day… up early to get to my doctor’s appointment…
from there went to get Indi washed… she’s happy to be clean after all the bugs and dirt from camping… I think she was a bit embarrassed to be seen while she was so dirty;-)…
on to Polo to pick up meds and a warm pretzel as a reward for a good appointment…
home to put everything away and then walked to the Park to meet a friend and her baby for lunch and a walk around the Gardens… sure do love baby snuggles…
maintained my baby whisperer status as I managed to get her to have a lovely nap as we wandered around…
stopped in at an upholstery shop on the way home to see about getting some sewing done…
now to rest…
29 Friday Sep 2017
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appointment, big girl pants, bruise, photos, pressure, sky, sunrise, trees, walk, widow
had some fun with my photos this morning…
needed to get my blood work done for my next doctor’s appointment and took a few pictures of the sunrise as I parked the car…
I always park a good distance from wherever I am going and then get some extra walking in so there is less pressure to get enough exercise…
spotted this lovely tree changing colour as I walked along…
the walk to and from the clinic was very nice on this beautiful day…
the final reminder of my day was this bruise from the blood work…
the technicians suggest that the longer you keep pressure on the spot where the needle was inserted, the smaller the bruise will be…
31 Monday Jul 2017
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appointment, big girl pants, cancer, CancerCare, discharged, Facebook, five years, gallbladder, surgery, widow
today in my Facebook feed the following memory came up…
I had been in the hospital for a few days with pancreatitis when I wrote the above post, and ended up there for six weeks… during that time I also had my gallbladder removed… I was very sick and when we left the hospital I was afraid, I’d been there so long I wasn’t sure how I would manage at home… I still had a drainage tube in my side and was barely able to eat…
a lot has happened in seven years…
the tube came out just a few days before our younger daughter’s wedding and I finally started to have an appetite…
two years later my husband died suddenly in March and within a few weeks I was diagnosed with uterine cancer… I’d been waiting for hernia surgery and so there were lots of discussions with the various doctors as they figured out how they could do both surgeries at the same time…
in July of 2012 I had a combination surgery and spent ten weeks recovering…
my body does not handle drugs well and within 8 hours following the cancer surgery I stopped taking all drugs…
dealing with pain is easier than dealing with the side effects of drugs…
this afternoon I had my final appointment at CancerCare… after eleven visit… saw my surgeon, who I rarely see as they work on a rotation, and was discharged from the program…
life is pretty darn good even with all the changes;-)…
25 Monday Jan 2016
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anniversary, appointment, art, big girl pants, CancerCare, check-up, health, nurses, taxi
was at CancerCare for a bit this afternoon… time for my six month check-up… been nine time for these appointments… will continue twice a year until I hit the fifth anniversary of my surgery… then it will be an annual visit to my own physician…
usually my daughter comes with me but I am getting braver and now can go on my own… usually I take a cab from and to the office so I don’t have to worry about finding a parking spot and getting there on time… seems like those big girl pants are fitting better every day…
only there for an hour today… sometimes it has been two or three hours… I often think about the others in the waiting room…
are they going to hear a cancer diagnosis and be at the beginning of their care… are they getting news that their treatment isn’t working and they have a finite amount of time left… are they, like me, part way through their 5 year term…
hard to feel bad if I have to wait for a while… I am one of the very lucky ones… the surgery basically removed all of the cancer… but they will continue to check on it until I reach the magic five years out mark…
enjoyed this piece of art as I was waiting… produced by nurses who work with cancer patients right here… they are a special group of individuals…
excellent appointment and I will be back in six months…
life is pretty darn good…
26 Thursday Jun 2014
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appointment, CancerCare, clematis, George, hard moments, missing, sadness
this morning as I was walking down the stairs a wave of sadness swept over me… I was missing George so much, I could hardly stand it…
as I was leaving the house I got some shots of the clematis… we were both so excited that it continued to return year after year and bloom so beautifully…
many blooms on the clematis this morning…
I felt his loss all day… I had an appointment at CancerCare and remembered how he was always there for any appointment I had, just as I was always there for his appointments… Crystal wasn’t able to go with me for this one, and I was a bit nervous as the last two times the examination had been extremely painful… happily, today it was a piece of cake… I was in and out within 20 minutes…
when I got home and was taking off my shoes I looked down and saw this…
Cyndi wore these while she was here and they were just sitting at the front door…
hard to believe that there are such hard moments after 842 days…
great close up… took these before I even got into the car, lol…
