Thursday 18 February 2010

the last 2 weeks

I've been trying to be sensible and not do anything too strenuous [no circuit training – boo!], and I've been voting for cakes every day [yes, we are WINNING!! woo hoo! thanks all my friends who've been voting!] and NOT being Ninja Cancer Girl, so this has been a fabulous 2 weeks! I am totally in the zone of NOT having cancer. Just go and vote please…

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Anyway - what? Oh yes – the last two weeks. First, the wounds in my tummy went all viciously red and sore. I mean REALLY sore – so I got a tad peeved with THAT scenario. I remembered from my last lot of so called 'dissolvable' stitches…they don't. Dissolve that is.

The body is supposed to recognise a foreign object and destroy it. My body is idiotic and doesn't seem to get the idea. We know that from the hellish tumour – wouldn't it destroy THAT if it knew what it was supposed to do? Confused dot com.

So I decided to remove them myself. Ugh! That was a rather shaky and sweaty experience to say the least! The skin had grown over  the stitches, so getting the scissors in 'just' the right place [in order not to cause bloodshed] was a bit tricky. But suffice to say, I removed all four stitches with no mishaps. Phew. Instant relief and now everything is healing up a charm. I am already using the Rosehip seed oil, so hopefully I won't have additional scars.

In the meantime, I managed to stub four toes before breakfast, rip one [long] fingernail off at the quick [aaargh – blood!], cut the back of my hand [ no I don't know what happened there at all] and smash my shin on the mum's tuck trunk we have as a side table in the lounge. BIG scab there. Yippee – a normal few things!

And I am really into helping this chap who is doing a 6,000 mile solo cycle ride intended to raise research funds and awareness about ovarian cancer. WHAT a cool dude! See his site here. More about that in the next post. And I am getting involved with a brilliant fellow who makes eco furniture – so cool. Everything Rick makes is sustainable and original. Beds, tables, boxes…superbly creative stuff, lovely to be considered as a part of his concern.  And also getting a bit involved with Killer Paint – really talented airbrushing. This man can paint anything at all. He is a true artist – and needs a good marketing person ;o)

And of course I am still looking for paying work [pay would be good!]. But, all told, a great start to MY new year – which really began once we got the biopsy result. At last it's sunk in!!

6 comments:

  1. amazing hand skills with the stitch removal! you're my hero. now go have some wine. xxx

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  2. oh I am! it was revolting but well worth it! silly things...
    x

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  3. hola~

    you asked on my blog (now what? life with cancer) if i had ovarian cancer. yes, m'am, i did -- stage 4. the original diagnosis was wrong (lymphoma, stage 4). thank the gods my oncologist was on top of it. otherwise, they would've been treating me for the wrong kind of cancer. i've been in remission since july of last year. so, i suppose i have 2 more years 'til i'm not looking behind me, eh?

    cxxx

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  4. oh no you don't!! you have 2 more seconds of 'looking behind you' - that's the time it takes to read this.

    remission! yay! isn 't it the most amazing thing??

    good we are there eh?
    x

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  5. it's my favorite word: remission. i'd like to name a pet after it. :-)

    cxxx

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  6. hee hee - me too - the next cat I have will be named Remi!
    x

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