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You do alot of things to distract yourself. Things are not that grand right now. I find myself cleaning the house. Getting things out just to put them away. Escaping through reading. Thinking about starting projects. Making lists….

You take pills cause the doctor prescribed them. Can you stop taking them? Are they for the rest of your life?

Too many people around me now have cancer. The people that I set my hopes on. The ones that, if they made it to Cancer Free Island, then I will too. And now new ones. Am I just of an age?

I started making chemo blankets. Happily thinking, make a bunch, in hopes that I will never have to pass them out. Jinx.

Got the call last night that one of my beloved Aunts was just diagnosed. She’s in a good place about it. Early caught due to a 3D mammogram (do people still get the old kind? Make sure you argue with your doctor on that one). Very curable. Very small. No lymph node involvement.

Two weeks ago, my “sister” friend, let me know she has a virulent kind now, that has nothing to do with the previous one. Her outlook is guarded. Surgery was not nice and now the long road to recovery has begun, chemo, and possibly radiation. A bunch of very hard decisions for her and her family.

A month ago, my magical pinball fixer buddy, was diagnosed with colon cancer. Bad news. Bad outlook. Its migrated to his liver and he’s got a severe iron deficiency. Ironically, he’s feeling better than he has in three years, due to the iron infusions. Outlook grim. Chemo right now in hopes to shrink, surgery, more chemo…

And right around Christmas, my friend’s daughter got the news that her leukemia is back. Prognosis is great. She’s got the spirit and the youth to fight. The double-whammy for me is that every time I wanted to grouse, I would think of her and just get over it and on with it.

It’s got me all a bit overwhelmed.