OTHER FRIENDS: Never ask for food COAL REGION FRIENDS: Are the reason you have no food.
OTHER FRIENDS: Bring a bottle of wine to your party COAL REGION FRIENDS: Make the pierogies & stay to clean
up afterwards
OTHER FRIENDS: Will come to your house warming party. COAL REGION FRIENDS: Will help you move
OTHER FRIENDS: Will watch sports with you COAL REGION FRIENDS: Will take off of work for a week to
drive to a Steelers away game with you.
OTHER FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr. and Mrs. COAL REGION FRIENDS: Call your parents Mom and Dad.
OTHER FRIENDS: Bail you out of jail and tell you what
you did was wrong. COAL REGION FRIENDS: Would be sitting next to you
saying, Damn… that was fun!
OTHER FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry. COAL REGION FRIENDS: Cry with you.
OTHER FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then
give it back COAL REGION FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they
forget it’s yours.
OTHER FRIENDS: Know a few things about you. COAL REGION FRIENDS: Could write a book with direct
quotes from you.
OTHER FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that’s what
the crowd is doing COAL REGION FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds ass
For leaving you behind.
OTHER FRIENDS: Would knock on your door COAL REGION FRIENDS: Walk right in and say, “I’m home!”
OTHER FRIENDS: Will take your drink away when they
think you’ve had enough. COAL REGION FRIENDS: Will look at you stumbling all
over the place and say, “You better drink the rest of that, don’t spill it!”
OTHER FRIENDS: Will talk shit to the person who talks
shit about you. COAL REGION FRIENDS: Will knock the shit out of them!!
OTHER FRIENDS: Are for a while. COAL REGION FRIENDS: Are for life.
Maybe OBAMA needs to read this, Hillary Clinton already gets it!
This fuzzy stuffed rabbit with a secret code came in the mail. I never heard of a Webkinz before that day. Maybe I am still in the dark, but does a 3 year old need a computer game with passwords and such? The only good thing I see is that she is learning mouse control by making the silly rabbit jump from one part of the screen to another in a virtual room. The little one is happy to me on mommy’s “puter”. And it is an activity that this chemo-Mom can do much better than playing hide and seek. Sitting on Mommy’s lap is never a bad thing. She gets bored quickly and jumps off, but the idea of giving reign over my computer is still very difficult for me. There are many websites to do educational games, but this is like Sims for preschoolers.
Mommy do you have physio today? as she wakes from her groggy sleep. I say yes I do. We get into our normal Monday routine of getting new clothes on and discussing what we will have for breakfast bread or cereal. She sighs and says pasta. Pasta? okay. What is the difference it is biological 4 grain pasta and has just as much nutrients as bread or cereal right? Daddy comes out of the shower to see his girls cooking, and having a bit of a chat in the kitchen. He just shakes his head and moves on to get dressed, because he knows that the day is getting away on him and he has already missed probably an important phone call on his cell phone.
The problem with having a routine and chemo is sometimes you get chemo brain and forget to make the physical therapy appointment on the day you always have it and you have made a switch last week. But on chemo you don’t remember and you are often more forgetful. This was the case today. I went for the first time in months by bike to physical therapy, and quite proud of the achievement when I finally sat down in a nice leather chair in the waiting area. Only to find out the my appointment is for Thursday not the longstanding Monday. What a blunder! I tell her no biggie and return to my bike sheepishly. I guess that I should have looked at the calendar when my baby asked do you have physio. I must assume nothing and check everything while chemo brain is in full force.
My lunch date with a parlimentarian’s wife is going to be late. She is “between meetings” at her consultant group. All power to her, I say.
My help is notoriously late and today is no exception. My daughter needs to be picked up at play school. I will wait to get a phone call before I get myself over to the playground. As a cancer patient you have to avoid children and crowds to prevent colds flu and infection. I am not saying live your life in a bubble, but make sure you take active steps to preventive steps to avoidable situations.
I have a scratch on my hand around my knuckle that I could have avoided had I just warn gloves. Gloves, hats scarves, baseball caps, all theses things are a part of a chemo patients every day apparel. I don’t go out with out a hat on my head, gloves on and sunglasses permanently in my jacket pocket.
I saw this artist Nikki perform for a bunch of kids in a studio on Dutch television and thought it was a catchy tune. Now I start this blog with an intro from wordpress which everyone gets, but this time it has much more meaning because hello world use to be a programmers first worlds to a program. Now it is a new blog similar in nature to the program, I have fallen down and just like the lyrics to Nikki , I get back up and keep on trying.
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