Brian was reading an article about volunteering tonight, and quoted the following statistic:
The biggest difference between people who volunteer and people who don’t is that people who don’t volunteer watch 23 hours of television per week, and people who do watch 15 hours per week.
I don’t watch TV at all, but I also don’t have [...]
Archive for September, 2008
September 24, 2008
Posted in knitting, quilting, volunteering, tagged insomina, julie martin, knitting, quilting, TV, volunteering on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
September 17, 2008
Posted in breast cancer, health, recurrence, tagged breast cancer, cancer, Don Miguel Ruiz, irrational exuberance, julie martin, Mayo Clinic, optimism, pessimism, The Four Agreements on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I’ve been thinking about optimism and pessimism, in general as they relate to having cancer, and specifically as they relate to *me* having cancer.
Friends and family have told me, especially since the recurrence, that they are impressed with my positive attitude in the face of having cancer (thank you!). I guess that it comes [...]
September 16, 2008
Posted in breast cancer, health, quilting, radiation, recovery, tagged breast cancer, cancer, good news, insomnia, julie martin, pathology report, surgery on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today the surgeon called. I saw her number on Caller ID, and almost didn’t answer, because it seems like doctors never call with good news – if it’s good, they wait to tell you when you have an appointment.
But I picked up the phone anyway, and it turns out it was actually great (although not [...]
September 14, 2008
Posted in breast cancer, chemo, radiation, tagged breast cancer, cancer, chemo, chemotherapy, julie martin, lumpectomy, pathology report, radiation, recurrence, surgery on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I’ve been negligent (yet again!) in keeping up on posting – between vacation, work, and medical-related appointments, I will claim lack of time as the culprit.
As I mentioned in the previous post, we had a lovely relaxing vacation down at the cabin, and arrived home late in the afternoon on Labor Day.
I jumped right [...]
September 1, 2008
Posted in breast cancer, chemo, radiation, tagged breast cancer, cancer, chemo, julie martin, radiation, vacation on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, Vacation!
The surgery on Friday the 22nd went well, the surgeon got clean margins, and gave me drugs for pain, nausea, and potential infection.
My chest is beginning to look like the Nazca Plains in Peru.
Travel went well, with Brian doing all the driving down. We stopped in Corning on Saturday evening, and visited with my [...]
