Being Sick

I hate being sick.  Ugh, it sucks big time!!  :-/  my eyes hurt, my sinuses are driving me nuts, and I'm nauseous.  Apparently I am afflicted with the illness that's been going around lately.  It's certainly making its way around work, that's for sure!  Normally, this wouldn't bother me, but with the whole cancer issue, I have to be really careful with my health.  What a bummer.  I've already missed one day of work, and I may have to miss another one.  Dammit.  I've been sick once already, but that time, it wasn't as bad.  OTC medicine doesn't seem to be working, and neither do orange juice or Sprite.  I've tried resting, and that helps very little.  Pfftt.  I hope I get better soon.  I wanna be back to normal.

*kathy*

Writing

Oh, my...my writing is really coming along now!!  :-)  For a while, I didn't really have the desire to do any writing for my, ahem, memoir.  Writer's block, I suppose one could say.  But lately, I've gotten a desire to put my thoughts down to paper.  In the past week and a half, I have written perhaps 30 pages.  Can't wait to finish and get it published!!!  :-)

*kathy*

2013

It's now been just over 4 months since my cancer diagnosis.  Doesn't seem like it sometimes.  It feels like it just happened yesterday.  I especially felt on New Year's Eve.  Why on New Year's Eve?  It was the 3rd anniversary of my mother's death.  When I received the news of the cancer, she was the very first person I thought of to tell.  I wanted so much to hug her!!  I felt so lost without her.  Sure, I had the support of my family and friends, but there is nothing--nothing!--like the love and support of a mother.  And it hurt knowing that she couldn't hold me in her arms and tell me that everything was gonna be okay, because I was tough.  I would have given my right arm to have her here.  :-(  I ended up with early-stage cancer, thankfully, but still, at the time I didn't know what was going to happen to me.  But I start to think about it, my mother was there for me.  She was my guardian angel.  And I can't imagine anything better than that.

Happy 2013!!

*kathy*