I really hate when people are all vague about things. I always, always want to know. No matter what it is, I want to know. Not knowing is the worst kind of torture. Really.
Anyhow, my mom went to her doctor (without telling me) for shortness of breath (that she didn't tell me about.) They did an x-ray, and found a spot on her lung. She's going for a CAT scan this Friday. I am petrified.
I can only imagine one thing worse than my mom being sick; my baby being sick. I'd take any sickness for either of them, if I could.
In other news? Online dating really sucks, especially when you're 50lbs overweight, 37, honest, and mom to a toddler. I am dating kryptonite.
And Gumball has her first earache. Poor kid.
I have two very positive lung spot stories. One involved my friend (one year older than I). Turned out she probably "just" had pneumonia or pleurisy. Whatever it was, it was resolved with antibiotics and maybe steroids.
ReplyDeleteThe second is Tom's aunt. She was diagnosed with lung cancer... fairly advanced, too. I want to say stage four, but it seems impossible. In any case, she has been undergoing treatment and actually seems to be winning. Against lung cancer.
I'm sorry Gumball's got an earache. Hopefully it is resolved quickly! Did you know blowing cigarette smoke into the ear can make it stop hurting? It's true, but who ever thought to try that?!
Regarding honesty, are you honest or are you brutally honest? I trend toward brutally honest, so the fact that you seem "honest" to me doesn't have any bearing on how others perceive you. But if you do find that you fall into the "brutally honest" camp (no wonder we get along so well!)... you could try softening a bit. I'm not saying it's easy. Probably my hardest life lesson to learn (100 times or more so far) is that it doesn't always matter if I'm right. I can still be wrong. Because I'm serious, I'm leaving out some pretty funny one-liners to mock myself here.
Love you.
Shan, thanks for sharing your positive lung spot stories. I am praying for pneumonia.
ReplyDeleteReally? Cigarette smoke in the ear? If you can believe this- I don't think I know any smokers. I have never, not once, smoked.
By "honest", I mean that I portray myself as I am. Pretty freaking awesome, for sure, but the other people apparently painted the Mona Lisa, are gourmet chefs, run marathons, own Fortune 500 companies, freelance as models, etc etc etc. Assholes. I'm pretty sure that they're just too "good" for me. Or something like that. I've had 2+ weeks of corresponding with 4 people, right? All of them asked me out. ALL of them just dropped off the face of the earth some time after asking me out. WTF. This last guy even gave me his phone number. I was excited to meet him bc it seemed like we might have things in common. It's so disappointing.
I may have to just C&P you my profile. I think it's decent. Maybe a tad boring, if anything, but quite positive. I think. Ugh.
PS. Love you too!
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