I'm back at work part-time and rehearsals for Iolanthe have started, so I'm more of a real person again! I got my bone marrow biopsy from mid-May back and everything's good - 3% blasts (the immature cells in the marrow - you want some because that means you're making new cells but you want less than 5% because that means you're not making too many with problems) and all the DNA stuff came back negative for mutations, so I'm still on the right track!
Went to Pennsylvania for Lauren and Jeff's wedding and successfully spent 3 1/2 days out of state with no major issues. Forgot the camera, though, so I don't have any photos to post.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Day 100! - Wednesday, May 16, 2012
My 100 days are over! I don't really feel any different than yesterday, but it's nice to think that I've reached a milestone and am going to be able to move back towards doing normal-ish things again. Abby sent me a happy 100 days picture of us at a more-different 100 days (the 100 days until graduation party Rice threw for the seniors).
Today wasn't terribly exciting. We realized we really need to go to the store, as we're out of milk and therefore we ended up making mac and cheese with just butter and the cheese granules, which is delicious but also probably super fattening. Patrick went out to his parents' house to help his dad with the shelving in the new garage so they can get their garage stuff put away instead of in a big pile in the middle of the garage. I stayed home as more being-alone practice and watched some trashy tv (Ghost Hunters was on SyFy, and that was the most interesting thing on). I did see about 5 minutes of Toddlers and Tiaras, but I think my IQ dropped just from watching those people, so I stopped as soon as I could.
Got my syllabus for my next class, which starts next week. The course itself looks really interesting, but I think the professor seems a bit weird. We have another group paper due as part of this class, but in the syllabus he suggests that instead of your group splitting the paper up into 3 pieces, he wants you to each write a 10-15 page paper and then take the best parts of each and put them into one paper. That seems to me incredibly inefficient.
Going out to coffee with Erin tomorrow afternoon, before she moves away to Dallas. Will be fun!
Today wasn't terribly exciting. We realized we really need to go to the store, as we're out of milk and therefore we ended up making mac and cheese with just butter and the cheese granules, which is delicious but also probably super fattening. Patrick went out to his parents' house to help his dad with the shelving in the new garage so they can get their garage stuff put away instead of in a big pile in the middle of the garage. I stayed home as more being-alone practice and watched some trashy tv (Ghost Hunters was on SyFy, and that was the most interesting thing on). I did see about 5 minutes of Toddlers and Tiaras, but I think my IQ dropped just from watching those people, so I stopped as soon as I could.
Got my syllabus for my next class, which starts next week. The course itself looks really interesting, but I think the professor seems a bit weird. We have another group paper due as part of this class, but in the syllabus he suggests that instead of your group splitting the paper up into 3 pieces, he wants you to each write a 10-15 page paper and then take the best parts of each and put them into one paper. That seems to me incredibly inefficient.
Going out to coffee with Erin tomorrow afternoon, before she moves away to Dallas. Will be fun!
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Day 99 - Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Went to the hospital this morning. My levels still aren't good enough for the line to be taken out, but they were stable enough for Diem to think that I didn't need to be seen again until next Tuesday. I'll be going in for a blood test on Thursday but then going home, and they'll just call me with my results.
Patrick was on the phone most of the day with some conference call, so I had time to keep quiet and do random things I'd put off of my to-do list until today. I took a short nap this afternoon, too.
Patrick went to game night at Jack's tonight and left me alone to test my being-alone abilities. Nothing really happened. I watched some tv and chatted with Claire and Abby online. Also I did a load of laundry, because clean things are okay for me to mess with.
Patrick was on the phone most of the day with some conference call, so I had time to keep quiet and do random things I'd put off of my to-do list until today. I took a short nap this afternoon, too.
Patrick went to game night at Jack's tonight and left me alone to test my being-alone abilities. Nothing really happened. I watched some tv and chatted with Claire and Abby online. Also I did a load of laundry, because clean things are okay for me to mess with.
Day 98 - Monday, May 14, 2012
Mom came over to sit with me today while Patrick went to work. Did the Monday newsletter for school, and Mom and I went to Pei Wei for lunch. Or rather, we picked some up and went back home so I could cook mine for longer in the microwave to make sure everything was cooked and dead. I drove for the first time since the transplant to make sure I still remember how to do it and to work my way up into being a normal person again.
Mom left for her dentist appointment right around the same time Patrick got home. Andyr came over around 6 to take me to the HGS board meeting, which took FOREVER and was super super frustrating, mainly because the board is populated by old people who dislike new things. The meeting ended at 10 but Andyr, Tim, and I got cornered in the parking lot by George and we ended up talking for a while about what should be done, and then complaining about how it'll never be able to be done after George left. The gala proposal Christine and I worked on was shot down spectacularly for no good reason other than "we shouldn't think about this until after the show, because we should focus on what we have to do for the show" - and then "well, this proposal is nice, but we really should do this other thing that is totally unrelated because we want to make sure we can seat 800." What? I don't understand how this group is still around with some of the wacky/bad decisions that are made.
Mom left for her dentist appointment right around the same time Patrick got home. Andyr came over around 6 to take me to the HGS board meeting, which took FOREVER and was super super frustrating, mainly because the board is populated by old people who dislike new things. The meeting ended at 10 but Andyr, Tim, and I got cornered in the parking lot by George and we ended up talking for a while about what should be done, and then complaining about how it'll never be able to be done after George left. The gala proposal Christine and I worked on was shot down spectacularly for no good reason other than "we shouldn't think about this until after the show, because we should focus on what we have to do for the show" - and then "well, this proposal is nice, but we really should do this other thing that is totally unrelated because we want to make sure we can seat 800." What? I don't understand how this group is still around with some of the wacky/bad decisions that are made.
Day 97 - Sunday, May 13, 2012
Got up early and went to help Patrick's parents move the last stuff around. Patrick and his dad put shelves and stuff together while I helped his mom go through the last cabinets and pull the final pictures/etc off the walls. Packed up a stack of old records which included "Disco Noel" - complete with dance instructions. I took a nap while the set up the tv, and woke up just in time for them to find out that the tv was broken sometime between unplugging it at their old house and getting it all set up at the new one.
We went over to my parents house after that and played some bananagrams with Mom and Dad before Patrick's parents came over to join us for dinner. We had a joint Mother's Day dinner cooked by the dads that almost ended badly because Dad had forgotten to refill the propane tank on the grill and the steaks didn't get quite done before it ran out. Mine got finished in the oven.
We went over to my parents house after that and played some bananagrams with Mom and Dad before Patrick's parents came over to join us for dinner. We had a joint Mother's Day dinner cooked by the dads that almost ended badly because Dad had forgotten to refill the propane tank on the grill and the steaks didn't get quite done before it ran out. Mine got finished in the oven.
Day 96 - Saturday, May 12, 2012
Patrick woke up super early today, Saturday, May 12, 2012, to go out to do the final day of moving big things in a truck, since his parents should be closing on their old house on Monday. I got up and napped on the couch until Dad got here around 6:45, and then I went back to bed until around 8:30. I sorted through all the newspapers and got Dad to take me to the recycling center and then we went to Einstein's for bagels to take home for a late breakfast. Einstein's was super busy and took way longer than expected, but we had deliciousness to take home after a while. I hid in the corner by the cash register while we waited for our food.
I did a bit of work while we watched some History channel and Dad made me some lunch before Lauren, Claire and Julia came over and we worked on assembling Lauren's ceremony programs for her wedding in a couple weeks. Lauren had the most gigantic and terrifying hole puncher that also put grommets into paper, so after we'd cut out all the pieces, Julia collated, Claire cut ribbon, and I tied ribbons on while Lauren used her giant grommety punching machine.
Claire and Julia had dinner plans so Lauren called Jeff over and the three of us went to Escalante's for crack salsa and un-lettuced flautas on my part. We saw a bunch of people there in bright orange and realized they must have come from the Dynamo game - which was the first game in the new fancy stadium. A bunch of them had the Dynamo scarves on and sat on the patio, which I thought was funny since it was like 90 degrees outside.
We went back to our place afterwards and watched Up while waiting for Mikey and Lauren to come over with their stash of bad movies. Then we watched Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla, which is really a very bad movie, and Lauren H. and I wrote out the escort cards for the wedding, completing two tasks in one day! Patrick got home around midnight and went straight to bed, since we have to get up early for more moving.
Day 95 - Friday, May 11, 2012
Last shot was today! It took them a really long time to get me in, and then they tried to take my vital signs twice because they weren't talking to each other, or something. Did my skype date with Candace when I got home. I think things will work out okay eventually at work.
Mom came down and brought over the foundation proposal with finalized amendments and signatures and such and drove me the block over (it's in the office building at Burgoyne and Fountainview, so very close to my place) so I could drop it off. Ended up having an awkward conversation with the man who works there, mainly because he seemed a bit hard of hearing and kept mishearing what I was saying. But everything seems all right on that front.
We went to pick up some bolts/nuts at Home Depot so Patrick could rebuild the closet and hang his monitor now that we finally found a mount that fits it online, and went to Joann's so I could get my fabric for my patron party dress with my fancy Teacher Appreciation coupon. A gigantic storm hit right after we got home, so it was good that we didn't dawdle too much at Joann's. We ended up watching stuff on netflix all evening with candles going just in case the power went out (it didn't).
Mom came down and brought over the foundation proposal with finalized amendments and signatures and such and drove me the block over (it's in the office building at Burgoyne and Fountainview, so very close to my place) so I could drop it off. Ended up having an awkward conversation with the man who works there, mainly because he seemed a bit hard of hearing and kept mishearing what I was saying. But everything seems all right on that front.
We went to pick up some bolts/nuts at Home Depot so Patrick could rebuild the closet and hang his monitor now that we finally found a mount that fits it online, and went to Joann's so I could get my fabric for my patron party dress with my fancy Teacher Appreciation coupon. A gigantic storm hit right after we got home, so it was good that we didn't dawdle too much at Joann's. We ended up watching stuff on netflix all evening with candles going just in case the power went out (it didn't).
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