I was reading my friend's blog and decided it's a lot like a public journal. I am an avid journal writer, so I figured this would be a great way to let my friends know how I'm doing despite the geographical distance between us.
I will start with how my life has taken some serious changes in the past two months:
My boyfriend (I'll call him "Jay") broke up with me so he could be ready to go on an LDS mission in 9 months. I was devastated that night. I knew it was coming, just not so soon. But on the other hand, I had started liking this guy (I'll call him "Joe") that I met a little over a month earlier through my friend. I thought he was attractive and he impressed me when two days after meeting, he came over and talked to me like we'd been friends for a long time. So, the bright side to the break up was that maybe I had a chance with Joe. When "Jay" called me to say we shouldn't date anymore, I was in the middle of texting "Joe." Once off the phone with "Jay," I needed someone, just anyone to talk to, to tell them how sad I was... who would be up that late at night? "Joe!" I told him, and he tried to comfort me... little did I know that night talking to Joe led to three dates within the next week. I am still currently seeing Joe, and only get to talk to "Jay" to see how he's doing or when I'm upset. He does the same. I'd say he's still my best friend.
My mother is very sick with cancer. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer on September 30 of this year, and went into surgery to have fluid and cancerous organs removed. She came home, and has been going through chemotherapy every week. She is up to her third treatment, but had a reaction to the last one. The doctors have been treating it like colon cancer since she got out of the hospital, but think it'd be best to treat it like ovarian cancer from now on.
Its been a real battle for my mom. She's lost 20 pounds in the past 2 weeks due to vomiting, and has been very dehydrated. Her senses have changed during chemo; sweet foods don't taste good to her (which are usually her favorite) and she is extremely sensitive to cold. It drives her crazy how exhausted she is just after going to church or how she can't move from her chair sometimes. She's so used to running around doing things around the house all the time and doing homework because she's gone back to school after 30 years. She was expecting to get her associates this month, but had to drop out the middle of this semester. She's currently working toward getting her tuition money back since she didn't get to finish. On the bright side, twice a day she is hooked to fluids (dextrose and sodium chloride) to help with dehydration, and TPN (essentially baby formula in a bag) at night. The TPN is all the valuable nutrients that my mother's been deprived of because of her inability to keep food down. But the fluids and TPN have been helping her so much. She feels like she has more energy to go to church and to walk up and down the stairs.
Because I am going to school, I've usually been gone every morning but come home and stay home all afternoon doing chores and helping out around the house. I still get my homework done because I've been too lazy to get a real job, but I do teach two kids piano lessons. Lucky for me, classes are over for the semester and I only have one more final left to take this week :)
That is my life in a nutshell for now...
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