valarltd: (collect lives)
Quote of the Day:
"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors."
---Norman Vincent Peale

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The best news I got all day:
My mother's blood work for December shows her white blood cells at near normal levels. She hasn't had that in YEARS. She said she though her normally staid dr was going to bounce up and down.

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The Writer's Aid Department:

25 things Writers should stop doing. RIGHT NOW! We all do some of them. Some of us do all of them. I'm particularly guilty of 22: overpromising and overshooting. (I don't chase trends, I tend to run a year early)

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The "Shape it Up" department:

9 Best fitness moves. Give it a try.

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From the Political Desk:

We all know that Romney beat Santorum by 8 votes in Iowa and Ron "The Demented Little Terry Brooks Character With a Gold Card" Paul made a strong third place. And I will maintain my dignity and not get myself into a froth of puns about Santorum surging from behind in Iowa to come out number two. I'm a better person than that. Apparently not.

Alabama considering personhood legislation. These forced birthers will not be happy until 70% of women are in jail for miscarriage, and 40% are on death row for abortions.

Obama appoints Richard Cordray to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Plutocrat Republicans howl. If we're protected from their predation, their profits will be lower!

Republican Pro-Life plank mates with States Rights and takes next logical step: Let states ban birth control!

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The "Hard At Work" department:

8 Jobs with Bright Outlooks. Nanoengineering technlogist? It's fun living in the future!

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The "Bracing for the Zombie Apocalypse" department:

Top 10 Survival Manuals to Download. Everything from dentistry and field surgery to canning and knitting.

Gardening in January. Come the apoc, we'll have to grow our own, and the Pagan Soccer Mom has some awesome links for everything from planning to containers to seed starting.

10 Survival Skills for a post Collapse world.

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The "I totally stole that for my book" department:

8 Gratuitously Violent Horror Movie Scenes (From the Bible). It's Cracked.com, so appropriate warnings. And I used Numero Uno in Power in the Blood.

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The Sacred Circle department:
January Correspondences. Two of my goddesses are listed. Also, it's National Hobby Month.

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National Hobby Month:

I am making this shawl in an ocean blue. I've finished the middle back triangle.

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Youtubery:
Today's piece was number one the week I was born

Good news!

Dec. 7th, 2011 07:03 pm
valarltd: (medical)
Mom got the results of last week's blood work.

Things have turned around. It all looks better. She's doing 3 more months of chemo, and has high hopes of remission. She's even making some new blood cells.

I got Christmas Eve off work, so we're making a fast hard run up to the city.
valarltd: (medical)
Mom has been so ill for so long that the chemo isn't working after 2 rounds of it. They'll go for a third. If it doesn't work, there's an alternate treatment. If that doesn't help, we're down to palliative care.
valarltd: (zen by lanning)
I got the call today, the one I've been expecting for a while now.


Mom came through cataract surgery fine. She's scheduled to have the other eye done in three weeks.

And the week after that, she starts leukemia treatment.

This is not expected to cause remission, much less cure her. She is not a candidate for a bone marrow transplant. This is just to reduce the frequency of blood transfusions. The Cancer Center says they'll give it a year.

Mom's fairly zen about it. There's a lot she still wants to do, and she plans to accomplish as much of it as she can. But there are other things she doubts she'll get a chance to do, like see all the grandkids graduate and marry and maybe even see a great-grandbaby. She has her church and she has my sister there and me as far as the telephone.


I am taking it well. A little fragile, but I'll be okay. Death is one more step on the Journey. And it will be hard on those of us left who will miss her. But we will make the passing as easy as possible, and she will go from love into love.


And I have a feeling I'll be reading a lot of this:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/10232245/JRR-Tolkien-Leaf-by-Niggle

LEAF BY NIGGLE
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

THERE was once a little man called Niggle, who had a long journey to make. He did not want to
go, indeed the whole idea was distasteful to him; but he could not get out of it. He knew he would have to start some time, but he did not hurry with his preparations.

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