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Cake day: March 18th, 2024

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  • The republicans we know said today to expect trouble and to gas up and get groceries and just hunker down for a while. Which is not at all ominous.

    I won’t be watching. I’m going out to my shop at 8. No internet out there. And probably not emerging until dead of night or early morning. Then, like a lot of other women, I’ll check on my status as a person going forward.

    My other half is taking Benadryl and forcing himself to go to bed. He’s given strict instructions not to wake him, even if it’s good news, with a clear Kamala win. (Yea, trouble later, but it’ll still tell us what We The People decided up front, and that means a lot.)














  • Cancer recovery IS wholesome.

    There are a lot of different people out there with a lot of different approaches to life among patients, but there are patterns that pop out. The most common is just straight endurance, more of a True Neutral approach of let’s just do the steps and tortoise walk through this until it’s done.

    Then there are the I hate my life for doing this to me and want to pay it forward to everyone in healthcare because I have to be here at all types.

    Then there’s the I’m going to roll with it because it’s no one’s fault, scared but not rancorous, and while this sucks, I want to find whatever joy I can in all the details of the life I have right now.

    Tom here is like I have a thin frame and a bald head from the chemo, Picard it is this Halloween. Then he gets all his hair back, puts on the weight and a lovely beard and uses that costume again. Dual purpose probably, to bask in his recovery. A celebration of getting to use the costume again in a new way with a better, healthier body.

    Tom is the latter patient. Those patients are among the most wholesome things in life you will ever encounter simply because of who they are as people.