Erica’s Blog

Mommy, is Poppa old?

[smiles] Yes, honey, Poppa’s old.

What about Nana?

Nana’s not as old as Poppa.

Oh, I get it!   Nana’s old, but she’s not SUPER old like Poppa…

GOOD NEWS:  The Things had a blast at Rick/Adri’s, and we thoroughly enjoyed being footloose and kid-free for a couple of days. 

GOOD NEWS:  Adri loved her scarf.

BAD NEWS:  I forgot to get a picture of it on her for the F.O.  gallery.

GOOD NEWS:  I’m just about done with Nana’s Mother’s Day present.  Gotta finish it tonight.  I can’t post pictures of it till I’ve given it to her, but I will post pictures.

GOOD NEWS:  We’ll probably get all our Italy reservations made this week.

BAD NEWS:  Not sure exactly HOW we’ll do that b/c our Internet connection at home is down (I’m blogging from the local library, which is a wireless hotspot and safer than Starbucks, where people are stealing laptops left & right these days).

GOOD NEWS:  My cellulitis is MUCH better, though it’s taking me forever to get through all the Keflex (supposed to be every six hours, but I ain’t waking up in the middle of the night to take a dose, thank you very much).

GOOD NEWS:  My ovarian cyst seems to have gone away all by itself, sans surgery.  This is VERY good b/c the doc said she couldn’t have done it through a scope; she would have had to do full-on open-belly surgery, which is a much bigger deal and would have been difficult b/c of all my scar tissue.

BAD NEWS:  She thought some of the symptoms I was attributing to perimenopause were excessive, even for perimenopause.  Next step is to get bloodwork done.  If the bloodwork doesn’t find anything that would cause the symptoms, then I have to get a biopsy, and we’ll go from there.  Depending on what gets found, options are a d&c (had one before, blech!), hysterectomy, and a couple of other things.

GOOD NEWS:  Remember little four-year-old Shay?  She’s been moved out of Intensive Care.  Yippee!

GOOD NEWS:  I’m going to speak a the annual Time of Remembrance for bereaved parents up at UCSF next week. Not exactly sure what I’ll say b/c the guy in charge doesn’t want me to read my Knitty story.  I get four or five minutes.  Any suggestions, ya’ll?