Friday, July 8, 2011 at 10:26PM The results of the CT are back and there is no sign of cancer. It looks like they got all of it when they removed the polyps. So I am much relieved. He still has some health issues to work through but at least this hurdle is over. A reason to celebrate the weekend.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 11:35PM Today my Mom called and told me that the polyps that my Dad had removed during a recent procedure contained cancer cells. They have scheduled a CT for him for tomorrow to see if they got it all or whether there is more cancer to be dealt with.
Sometimes I hate being so far away.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 11:45PM AND I SUCK AT IT.
I love food. I am over weight, I don't get enough exercise and I eat too much. Being diabetic means that I have to try to watch what I eat, take medication twice a day, test my blood regularly and give myself insulin once a day. I hate it. I hate it all. I hate trying to remember to take my medication. I hate the inevitable disappointment when I fall off the wagon and my blood sugar gets high. I hate the lectures from doctors and specialists who to be fair are doing their job and trying to keep me healthy. I hate the guilt I feel before the appointments and I hate that I have to give up some of the things that I love, or should.
Problem is, I love my wife and my daughter and my family and want to be around to love, laugh, cry and live with them for a long long time.
I don't know what the answer is. I really don't. I wish I was one of those people that could just choose to do something and have the will power to just do it but I'm not.
I guess there is no easy answer. Anything worth attaining requires work and more than a little sacrifice.
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maybe I just need to get enthusiastic about getting fit, losing weight and getting my blood sugar under control. I am not sure exactly how one goes about that.
Sunday, February 6, 2011 at 10:39PM It was another cleaning weekend and we have made more progress in getting the house organized.
It started badly though on Saturday morning when 2 minutes after starting to vacuum there was a nasty smell coming from the vacuum cleaner. I looked down to see it emitting the mysterious blue smoke. The problem is that after you release the mysterious blue smoke things stop working. So we had to bite the bullet and buy a new vacuum. We decided that we would spend the extra money and buy a Dyson even though we really can't afford it. It is a great vacuum though and we are glad to have it. It does an amazing job. So small vacuum crisis over we were able to work on doing our regular cleaning and continued our work on the attic space.
We are quite pleased with the current arrangement but still have much tweaking to do. We need to add another bookshelf and a couple of chairs. We need the chairs because we added a new electric faux fireplace this week. They were on sale at Canadian Tire for 50% off and we have wanted one for some time so we took the opportunity to get one on sale. It isn't the same as the real thing but it has the advantages of not requiring any wood, we can have the 'fire' on but no heat and it has a remote!
We continue to forge ahead at home and I am thinking over the coming months that we will probably have some painting in our future. We are generally pleased with the colors in our house but some areas could use a little spackle and a coat of paint or two and we may just have to change the colors in some rooms as they aren't what we are looking for.
I am pleased with the work we have done but there is so much more to do. We will just have to take it one month at a time and try not to break the bank as we do it.
Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 10:47PM Well I spent the day working on cleaning and organizing the attic. We have a finished attic and it is a great space. Rather it would be a great space if we could figure it out. We have set it up as a bedroom, a living space and an office space, always with a side of storage. I really believe that if we can figure out the right combination of furniture and functionality, that it could be an amazing retreat for us. A place to read and relax, laugh, play and be entertained. It really is a great space. It just needs to be tamed.
To that end, Cinn and I have been working to get it organized. This weekend we made further strides and continue to move forward with making the space our own. I got a lot of paperwork organized, emptied some boxes and got rid of some of that stuff that I have been keeping for...ok I don't know exactly why I was keeping it. It's likely because I am a packrat. "I might need this old mouse. You know the PS2 version that I am not at all sure that I even have a computer that it would work with." I have a hard time throwing things out but I did throw out a little bit today. Baby steps right?
I have worked through the mess that inevitably develops when cleaning up some of the crap I have in storage and managed to file, throw out and put away everything I was working on so that we are at present, no worse for wear.
It's the end of the day and I think that we are a little bit closer to taming the attic (and for that matter our house) than we were at the beginning and I think ultimately that is a good thing.