New year month 2

CURRENT GOOD NEWS
Well at least the general state of health is improving.

CURRENT BAD NEWS
 Last month I lost my dear car due to flooding streets. So a lot of dealing with the insurance company.

In medical insurance I am now dealing with a very $$$ plan, I owe my family so much in the ways they have helped out.

Job hunting is not very promising. This week while volunteering with a library system I sent in a resume to, I was told by one of the librarians told me the position I had applied for was being re-posted "because the administration was not happy with any of the applicants." It is hard to hear this second hand and in a rather tossed off manner. Topping off the job searching effort was getting an email from a different library informing me I was not being considered for a part time reference job. I just wish I could have been good enough to have been asked for at least one interview.

All in all not a cheerful start to 2012.

Still moving forward

Lots of changes since February:

• There have been a few more stays in the hospital due to fevers and infections.
• The removal of my direct port and the end of the liquid feedings that went with it.
• My weight is now fairly stable.
•  I can now go up and down stairs on my own as well as walk without my legs shaking.
• The latest twist was dealing with kidney stones. One large stone was in a very bad position that required me to undergo a hospital procedure to have it pulled out of me.

I am hoping that I will soon be strong enough to focus on getting a new job. Currently I am not really up to facing an all out effort of job searching and interviewing. I just don't have the energy level needed for these activities.

Day by day

The title of this entry has become my life motto.

   Since last June life has been piling up a wide selection of challenges. One of the saddest is that the job in Laredo slipped away.  I had been approved by the city and even passed the pre-employment tests. But I did not count on dealing with a real nasty challenge.
   Before heading for the lower part of Texas I had decided to take advantage of the medical coverage I currently had and went in for all my yearly checkups. This went from top to bottom literally.  When one of the test showed I was very anemic I then got to have "scopes" go down my throat and up the colon. This is when life changed. A very nasty cancer was found just below my stomach. Very quickly I was scheduled for surgery. So quickly that I was actually between jobs when the surgery took place.  No need for a blow by blow account but due to  3 different infections and problems with chemo, my job in Laredo could not be held. This is something I completely understood.
   Life just keep happening. I had to give up my apartment, and store most of my things. I have been very lucky as well. My dear sister has taken me into her home and has been my source of strength when dealing with all things medical.  My father has helped me through some unplanned for expenses and my brother and sister-in-law turned out to be wonderful cheerleaders
    Next week I go for another scan and I am hoping for good news, although the last visit with a doctor was not a source of happy news. 
     I was very happy to see the end of 2010, and I still hold on to the hope that 2011 will be better.