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1. My cousin, whom the VA almost killed, got to go home a couple days ago!! She is still very weak and sick, but she is well enough to come home and see her family (including her precious newborn she has been away from for days)! Her mom is there, helping her at home. Our family has the strongest women I have ever known...I don't know how I would have dealt with what they have been through, but by golly, they did it!
2. We FINALLY have word our tax return is on it's way back to us. TWO MONTHS with no word, and we go to the main office in Nashville and find out the problem in less than 20 minutes. Stupid IRS.
Also, I have pregnancy brain...not sure if it's a happy thing..but I want to eat all the things I've been trying to minimize for the past year. Most of them are on the fattier side, so maybe that's what I'm needing more of, I dunno. I sure don't want to end up a pregnant whale like last time though!!
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"It's never too late to be who you might have been." George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans
Today I get to watch a very good friend of mine graduate vet school. I met him 5 years ago when he started vet school, he was originally in my class. He had Crohn's disease and was on all sorts of meds for it at the time. During our sophomore year, he tried a new drug and it seemed to be a miracle for him. No more colitis, no more pain, no more blood. Around the same time he also started experiencing short term memory loss. His grades started to suffer, and he's a smart kid, so everyone started to wonder WTF was happening. Turns out, it was a side effect of this new drug he was on. So he quit the drug and started the Paleo diet. Amazingly, the Paleo diet worked like a charm, and it seemed like nearly all symptoms of the Crohn's were at bay.
A couple months into our senior year he got really sick. He had high fevers, and was jaundice, vomiting, and just overall ill. Of course since we're in contact with a lot of infectious diseases the docs ran a gamut of tests. None were leading them to the cause. They finally did a liver biopsy. My friend was diagnosed in October 2011 with an extremely rare form of cancer, hepatosplenic T cell lymphoma. They gave him 8 months to live.
My friend went through a lot of analyzing what the next months would bring, and if he even wanted to try therapy. He went forward, his attitude was basically like this: Fuk this sh!t. I'm 26 years old, I'm not going to die yet. He had full body radiation, several rounds of chemotherapy, and a bone marrow transplant. His sister was a perfect match. After months and months in the hospital, extreme weight loss, fevers every other day, and living in a bubble, my friend got to go home. It was an uphill battle for him and his fiance to leave New York, that's where they went for treatment. My friend would still get sick sometimes, and any symptom could have been early graft vs. host disease, which kills a lot of transplant patients. Finally, after months of living within minutes of the hospital, my friend was cleared to travel and to move back to Colorado. He spoke at my graduation last year, which was right around when he was supposed to have succumbed to his disease. I was a blubbering idiot.
My friend started vet school again in January 2013. He had been weaned off all immunosuppressants, no longer has Crohn's Disease, and is kicking ass. Today he graduates. Today he should have been dead almost a year. I'm crying tears of joy and amazement just writing this. I has a happy, a really really really big one.
This is the speech he gave last year at my graduation.
Your desire to change must be greater than your desire to remain the same.
I am not really sure if I have ever posted in this thread except to comment on someone else's post
have not been happy for many years..
today for this moment..I am happy
today I got my keys for my new apartment for my son and I
as some of you know..I left my marriage last july after 20 years with a controller..
only to move in with my brother the alcoholic
had some very bad nights around here over the past six months
but this mama survived it
I move next week
not where I wanna be but..damn sure not where I used to be
develop the ability to laugh at yourself would ya? everybody else is already doing it.
beware smartacidness
I am not really sure if I have ever posted in this thread except to comment on someone else's post
have not been happy for many years..
today for this moment..I am happy
today I got my keys for my new apartment for my son and I
as some of you know..I left my marriage last july after 20 years with a controller..
only to move in with my brother the alcoholic
had some very bad nights around here over the past six months
but this mama survived it
I move next week
I'm SO happy for you, LBM. You're on your way
Last edited by BubsNBean; 05-16-2013 at 10:12 AM.
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Your desire to change must be greater than your desire to remain the same.
Today I get to watch a very good friend of mine graduate vet school. I met him 5 years ago when he started vet school, he was originally in my class. He had Crohn's disease and was on all sorts of meds for it at the time. During our sophomore year, he tried a new drug and it seemed to be a miracle for him. No more colitis, no more pain, no more blood. Around the same time he also started experiencing short term memory loss. His grades started to suffer, and he's a smart kid, so everyone started to wonder WTF was happening. Turns out, it was a side effect of this new drug he was on. So he quit the drug and started the Paleo diet. Amazingly, the Paleo diet worked like a charm, and it seemed like nearly all symptoms of the Crohn's were at bay.
A couple months into our senior year he got really sick. He had high fevers, and was jaundice, vomiting, and just overall ill. Of course since we're in contact with a lot of infectious diseases the docs ran a gamut of tests. None were leading them to the cause. They finally did a liver biopsy. My friend was diagnosed in October 2011 with an extremely rare form of cancer, hepatosplenic T cell lymphoma. They gave him 8 months to live.
My friend went through a lot of analyzing what the next months would bring, and if he even wanted to try therapy. He went forward, his attitude was basically like this: Fuk this sh!t. I'm 26 years old, I'm not going to die yet. He had full body radiation, several rounds of chemotherapy, and a bone marrow transplant. His sister was a perfect match. After months and months in the hospital, extreme weight loss, fevers every other day, and living in a bubble, my friend got to go home. It was an uphill battle for him and his fiance to leave New York, that's where they went for treatment. My friend would still get sick sometimes, and any symptom could have been early graft vs. host disease, which kills a lot of transplant patients. Finally, after months of living within minutes of the hospital, my friend was cleared to travel and to move back to Colorado. He spoke at my graduation last year, which was right around when he was supposed to have succumbed to his disease. I was a blubbering idiot.
My friend started vet school again in January 2013. He had been weaned off all immunosuppressants, no longer has Crohn's Disease, and is kicking ass. Today he graduates. Today he should have been dead almost a year. I'm crying tears of joy and amazement just writing this. I has a happy, a really really really big one.
This is the speech he gave last year at my graduation.
today I got my keys for my new apartment for my son and I
as some of you know..I left my marriage last july after 20 years with a controller..
only to move in with my brother the alcoholic
had some very bad nights around here over the past six months
but this mama survived it
I move next week
LBM, that is awesome! I remember reading before that you were aiming for your own apartment, SO happy that came true for you and your son!!!!!
About a year ago I would have hated to talk to my doctor about my routine tests (was very overweight), but yesterday was different. Everything came back normal or much better than average. My doctor said I was dreadfully healthy and jokingly commented I was not trying hard enough to make work for him. Freaking guy kind of made my day. He also looked at me like I was insane when I asked about getting a dexascan to determine my BF as he thought I was much leaner than him.
About a year ago I would have hated to talk to my doctor about my routine tests (was very overweight), but yesterday was different. Everything came back normal or much better than average. My doctor said I was dreadfully healthy and jokingly commented I was not trying hard enough to make work for him. Freaking guy kind of made my day. He also looked at me like I was insane when I asked about getting a dexascan to determine my BF as he thought I was much leaner than him.
Congrats on your progress!!
Your desire to change must be greater than your desire to remain the same.
tuesday morning bright and early my son, my daughter in law, my ex husband, my son's best friend and I moved all my stuff into my new apt. It was an all day event but we got it done
I have been unpacking ever since. Its small but clean and beautiful and I am happy.
not where I wanna be but..damn sure not where I used to be
develop the ability to laugh at yourself would ya? everybody else is already doing it.
beware smartacidness
tuesday morning bright and early my son, my daughter in law, my ex husband, my son's best friend and I moved all my stuff into my new apt. It was an all day event but we got it done
I have been unpacking ever since. Its small but clean and beautiful and I am happy.
AWW, yay LBM!!! So happy for you!!
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"Otherwise its gonna be like peeling apart a cold grilled cheese sammich. Don't nobody want none of that!" <3
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Squats and Maple syrup son. Squats and Maple syrup.
tuesday morning bright and early my son, my daughter in law, my ex husband, my son's best friend and I moved all my stuff into my new apt. It was an all day event but we got it done
I have been unpacking ever since. Its small but clean and beautiful and I am happy.
Yay!!!
"Do not give away to others what you have not first given away at home." unknown
"It's never too late to be who you might have been." George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans
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