The owl is alive
*waves*
Oh Lord, what a way to start the new year... I barely made it two weeks in, and then caught a nasty stomach bug - you know, those who show up Saturday evening, stay for the night to make you throw up as often as possible, and then vanish for exactly a week only to come back with a vengeance. GAH. Took me about two weeks to get over it, with a nice stomach diet of mashed potatoes, porridge, chicken soup, yoghurt... *sigh*
What was nice was a visit from a guy that my Dad got to know during his rehab last year - he lives in Berlin, but had a few vacation days left and asked if he could visit us. That was really nice - he was very friendly, we got along great. And it was very good for my Dad, because the whole christmas and New Year's Day times were pretty hard for us, and he was quite down. So that really cheered him up.
Which was necessary, because there were still two doctor appointments left where we were scared of the outcome - first, the kidney thing, and second, a lump under the skin of his shin which hurt a little and didn't go away. And since we know now how fast something seemingly harmless can turn into something bad... well, the first February week was spent in a state of nervousness. But luckily this time everyting WAS harmless - kidneys are as functional as they can be for his age, the water probably came from varicoses. If it happens again, they have to check that out, but so far it didn't. And the lump got cut out (cue grumpy Dad because he wasn't allowed to do sports for three weeks) and turned out to be harmless, just like an encapsuled bruise. So yay :-)
And as if that wasn't enough health worry, three weeks ago my gyn told me that the occult blood test came back positive and I needed to do a colonoscopy to find out if it was something bad. Oh hooray. *snort* Reasons for a positive include piles, mouth bleed (that's why you aren't allowed to floss three days before the test) or even taking aspirine which can cause microbleeds. Worse reasons of course are colon cancer, or diverticula. And my Mum had those, so naturally I was worried that I inherited them... and three weeks of worrying makes you antisocial, I can tell you! And the the date for the exam is the day after my birthday. YAY. No cake for me, then... *lol* But again, everything went smoothly, they found nothing worse than a few small piles. No diverticula, nothing. Phew. I took today off, the dizzyness is almost gone, but my butt is still sore. Ow. Plushy pillows are my friends! *lol*
So the next doc dates are eye doc and dentist, they can't be that bad, right?
But the good news is that I finally started writing again. That's true, the Face Value verse still lives, and Lindsey and Eliot are getting ready for new adventures!
havenward and I set up a weekly report schedule, we're editing the Enzian story right now, and I have a monster story about amnesiac!Lindsey in the works which will eventually cross over with the Dresden Files. It currently sits at 30.000 words and Dresden isn't even anywhere near them... oh dear... *g*
But I think it's kind of a positive loop - when I finally started working on the story again, I realized how much I missed them, and all of a sudden my muse is waking up and giving me new ideas. I like that :-)
So, plans for this weekend include writing and baking birthday cakes. How does that sound? :-)
Missed you all! *smishes*
Oh Lord, what a way to start the new year... I barely made it two weeks in, and then caught a nasty stomach bug - you know, those who show up Saturday evening, stay for the night to make you throw up as often as possible, and then vanish for exactly a week only to come back with a vengeance. GAH. Took me about two weeks to get over it, with a nice stomach diet of mashed potatoes, porridge, chicken soup, yoghurt... *sigh*
What was nice was a visit from a guy that my Dad got to know during his rehab last year - he lives in Berlin, but had a few vacation days left and asked if he could visit us. That was really nice - he was very friendly, we got along great. And it was very good for my Dad, because the whole christmas and New Year's Day times were pretty hard for us, and he was quite down. So that really cheered him up.
Which was necessary, because there were still two doctor appointments left where we were scared of the outcome - first, the kidney thing, and second, a lump under the skin of his shin which hurt a little and didn't go away. And since we know now how fast something seemingly harmless can turn into something bad... well, the first February week was spent in a state of nervousness. But luckily this time everyting WAS harmless - kidneys are as functional as they can be for his age, the water probably came from varicoses. If it happens again, they have to check that out, but so far it didn't. And the lump got cut out (cue grumpy Dad because he wasn't allowed to do sports for three weeks) and turned out to be harmless, just like an encapsuled bruise. So yay :-)
And as if that wasn't enough health worry, three weeks ago my gyn told me that the occult blood test came back positive and I needed to do a colonoscopy to find out if it was something bad. Oh hooray. *snort* Reasons for a positive include piles, mouth bleed (that's why you aren't allowed to floss three days before the test) or even taking aspirine which can cause microbleeds. Worse reasons of course are colon cancer, or diverticula. And my Mum had those, so naturally I was worried that I inherited them... and three weeks of worrying makes you antisocial, I can tell you! And the the date for the exam is the day after my birthday. YAY. No cake for me, then... *lol* But again, everything went smoothly, they found nothing worse than a few small piles. No diverticula, nothing. Phew. I took today off, the dizzyness is almost gone, but my butt is still sore. Ow. Plushy pillows are my friends! *lol*
So the next doc dates are eye doc and dentist, they can't be that bad, right?
But the good news is that I finally started writing again. That's true, the Face Value verse still lives, and Lindsey and Eliot are getting ready for new adventures!
havenward and I set up a weekly report schedule, we're editing the Enzian story right now, and I have a monster story about amnesiac!Lindsey in the works which will eventually cross over with the Dresden Files. It currently sits at 30.000 words and Dresden isn't even anywhere near them... oh dear... *g*But I think it's kind of a positive loop - when I finally started working on the story again, I realized how much I missed them, and all of a sudden my muse is waking up and giving me new ideas. I like that :-)
So, plans for this weekend include writing and baking birthday cakes. How does that sound? :-)
Missed you all! *smishes*