http://www.pixelden.com Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:49:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think and write in my head a lot.  Really if everything I composed in my head was recorded on paper, blog or journal, I would probably have a book.  To be honest with myself, now is not a time when I have much time.  With the mama gig, and the cancer ... http://www.pixelden.com/2009/gratitude/ Friday was a bad day, a sad day, but a good day.Bad:9/11Fender bender in the truck2.5 hour wait for the renowned and quite successful Dr. FlamLazy nursesChemo 5Sad:Remembering 9/11/2001Tears Friend Jim, has lung cancer, very sick, had to stop chemo and be taken to hospital to remove fluid in lungs and ... http://www.pixelden.com/2009/the-not-so-profound-post-from-chemo-5/ The good news for today:I am done with prednisone for the time being--I took my last dose at 11 something after I had fallen asleep with the kids, woke up at 3:30 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep. This has allowed me to get caught up on things like a ... http://www.pixelden.com/2009/the-field-of-good/  So as sporadic as my blog posting is, I feel the need to document.First what has happened since last posting, as lazy excerpt from an email to family, which was excerpted from a post to my friends.  So basically, rehashed words for documentation, but I've added a bit since the ... http://www.pixelden.com/2009/up-to-speed/  I've talked about it for several posts now.  Time for a definition and description: Straight from RadioGraphics/ Radiology journal (Radiographics. 2001;21:737-757): "An uncommon benign disorder characterized by proliferation of dense fibrous tissue within the mediastinum. This entity is also known as sclerosing mediastinitis and as mediastinal fibrosis. Affected patients are typically young ... http://www.pixelden.com/2009/fibrosing-mediastinitis/ There are lists and then there are my lists. Invisible lists that run through my head like a Wall Street ticker 24/7.  Although lately it's seemed like my coverage has been spotty as I keep forgetting things on these invisible lists-- Could it be a possible side effect of Tamoxifen? ... http://www.pixelden.com/2009/lists-and-laundry-and-ground-hogs/ I am up an hour and four minutes past my self appointed bedtime.  Sleep seems to do wonders for my life.  I've kinda bought in to that concept, but the self discipline aspect always seems to get me... especially when there are things like twitter, facebook and reddit to take ... http://www.pixelden.com/2009/short-sleep/ Yes.  It has been more than 18 months since I have posted.Yes.  Between the present here and the past there, much has happened.But to share it all at this moment would be a distraction.It will come as I post more.For now a few wordshots. Charley, Charles, 3.5, a big boy. Asked ... http://www.pixelden.com/2009/the-present-here/ For too long I've let this beginning of a post sit in the virtual draft box mildewing and withering away... Here is a wordshot (aka snapshot) from the last year of parenting with two.~February 2008: Tonight as I was nursing Ben to sleep, I was listening to Jason read to Charles and ... http://www.pixelden.com/2009/a-post-lost-to-the-draft/ So another long ass bed time-- we are talking upward of two hours. It was an hour, but after another half hour of hearing his bedroom door creak open and then shut again and "Mama, mama, mama. Maaaaaaaama!"  I went back up to Charlie's room and checked in on him.  ... http://www.pixelden.com/2007/bedtime-in-two-parts/