Black Oak's Daughter

This storm we’re having isn’t so bad, even though we might have 12″ before it’s over.  The timing of this one is good. Rush hour this morning wasn’t awful, then it snowed all day, and stopped in time for the drive home. Now it will snow most of the night and the plows will get [...]

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Sorry for the gap between posting. Winter came to visit and things like getting to and from work took up a little more time and energy than usual.  The good news is that the snow blower started right up this morning like it hadn’t been sitting all summer with the gas from last year in [...]

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I woke up from surgery cancer free.  It was a long month and a half between diagnosis and removal. That time changed my life.  I found out how much I could trust my friends and family to stand by me. I am very blessed with love in my life.  In the inevitable process of evaluating [...]

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We lost some huge personalities this week.
Personally I’m a lot more upset about Farrah Fawcett than Michael Jackson.  I respect his talent, which was huge, but he had so many problems, and that negativity overshadowed the pure energy that he was when he was performing.  His life was twisted and tortured by his own personal [...]

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OK. I’ll admit it. Things really suck right now.
*commence whine*
My job used to be handled by 5 separate people. Through downsizing, it’s up to two of us now. Normally I share these duties with my partner, with him taking about 2/5ths of the load and I handle the rest because it’s mostly management stuff.  With [...]

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On November 9th last year I was diagnosed with a “mild” form of Cancer, if there is such a thing. Four weeks later it, and several body parts, were removed from my body surgically.  I have to be screened every 3 months to make sure it stays gone.
Today I opened up the mail that came [...]

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There’s a new cousin in the family!!  Yay for babies!!  Congrats the parents, grandparents, and big brother Leo. The cool part is they named her after her great grandmother that will get to meet her at her 90th birthday party in a few months. That rocks.
I talked to my friend Bzzzz today, who’s going to [...]

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I had my first 3 month cancer check last week and got the results of the CA125 blood test today.
Normal is anything under 35, the farther under, the better.
I scored a 2.
That’s the closest to normal that I believe I’ve ever been 

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Since December 7th, I’m down 13 pounds.  Granted, probably 2 of that was removed during the surgery, that’s 11 pounds in 11 days.
I purposely didn’t get on a scale until yesterday.  Between fluid retention (swelly belly) and just general lack of interest in eating (that’s coming back) I didn’t know which way it would go. 
I [...]

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I am home now. I had surgery more than a week ago. I feel like it too, but, as they say, there’s no place like home.
I have just been through one of those “tests” that life throws at you.  I am healing from major surgery, and as much as I believe I’m cured of the [...]

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