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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Am I glowing...?

Hi!  I'm writing this at home after being injected with some radio-active substance that has to have time to work its way though my body before they can do the bone scan this afternoon.  DH always tells me I'm *glowing*... and yes, I've had this before... (bone scan) but it's probably been quite a few years back. It isn't a difficult test since there's really no fasting, and once you're injected, you can eat or drink anything... just need to return in 3 hours to the hospital for the scan (which is supposed to take 45 - 60 mins.)

The reason for this is because of the before mentioned trouble with my right leg (previous blog post). Well, just to let you know, it doesn't hurt *at all* today. Isn't that always the way? Hurts for weeks, finally give in and call the doctor, set up a test.... and then it's gone (WTF? - excuse my bad text word, but it fits). And the test probably needed to be done eventually anyway.

I had a nice talk with the technician who administered the *glow juice*.  She apparently has a lot of cancer in her family also. We shared the philosophy that we all have to die eventually, but we've both been pretty lucky so far.

Now on another note, I follow several blogs online (well, I follow more than several, but I only keep up with a precious few). Anyway, DJan mentioned in her last post about a relative sending her a book which was made up of blog posts from her late brother-in-law who had past away not too long ago. Such a good way for someone to be remembered! I appreciate her sharing this idea with us.

But this news affected me in a different way. It reminded me of what I had lost through my own anger and frustration. I have written online for about 14 years... maybe longer, although I know I lost a few websites in the beginning... they just disappeared into cyberspace. But I wrote on Homestead since 2000 or 2001 and then various free blog spots before blogger.com. It was Homestead that had some problems last Fall... can't remember what the exact problem was... but I couldn't get on my site and after a few days without getting much help from them, I got frustrated and cancelled my membership. I figured that it didn't matter if I couldn't get on it anyway. But over the past year I have deeply regretted losing my almost daily posts for over 10 years. So much of my life was captured there... granted not of any interest but to me... but still.



Chase and Jack

However, after reading DJan's post, I decided to get in touch with Homestead and find out if all my writings were lost.  They weren't!  I'm now back in possession of them and reading about funny incidents that happened when my now almost 16 year old grandson was 4 and living with us, incidents (both funny and sad) that happened when mom was still with us, etc.  I'm so very happy to have recovered these... and I thank you DJan for making it happen (in a round about way).


My mom and our very dear friend (both now gone from my life)








10 comments:

  1. You are so, so welcome! As you said in your comment to me, you can never know for sure what will happen from different blog posts we write. I have been thinking about taking some of my own that were written about family and making a book for my siblings. I was completely flabbergasted at the great quality of Pete's book. And I'm so glad to hear you have gotten your posts back. A journal that has come back to you. :-)

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    1. I think a blog book for your siblings (and you have many!) would be a great idea. I don't have any siblings anymore, but perhaps my grandkids would get a kick out of reading some of my ramblings. You never know...

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  2. That is terrific that you got back those posts. I know that impulsive, "oh the heck with this aggravation" feeling, later to be regretted. Hope all goes well with your test.

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    1. You described that feeling perfectly, Olga.

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  3. Good luck with the scan, fingers crossed for good results. Well, it's probably over by now. No, wait, maybe not, you're a couple of hours behind me, time-wise.

    It's wonderful that you were able to recover those years of writing! I periodically back up my blogs, but past web site writings have disappeared, or so I presume. Heck, I can't even remember the sites I used to have. LOL.

    Anyway, we'll look for an update on the scan, whenever you're able to post one.

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    1. Your past web site writings may still be around, Kim. But I understand the difficulty in remembering what sites you used in the past. I used several for awhile, but only stayed with Homestead for years before going on to Blogger.

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  4. The lost is found. What a lovely thing to read. I thought I started to blog to record family history, and so I have. And on the whole, no family member is interested. I count it an exercise in memory.

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    1. Joanne, I wrote on my journal sites for years - without thought of comments or anyone reading them. But it's amazing what a record it keeps for oneself...

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  5. I'm sure you are very relieved to now have these posts back. They are meaningful to you and that's all that matters. Enjoy catching up. Deb

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