06.24.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:36 pm by Bridget Zinn
It is true that your body likes to make baby white blood cells in your lower hips and rear end area. Ha! I wasn’t completely out of my mind. Of course, this time around, I’m feeling it in my shoulders too which doesn’t make any sense. Maybe they ran out of room down there?
Other good news, besides me not being crazy (at least not concerning my achy bottom), is that my tumors are, in fact, shrinking. Woo hoo! All of the throwing up etc. has not been for nought. I swore I felt cancer cells putting up a fight in there as they died off, so I’m not at all surprised. I just wish they’d go more quietly and slip away to find another incarnation as a nice flower or something.
So far, this round of the blood-boosting hulk shot has gone better — still a bit sleepy, but I’ve started going to acupuncture and, while it doesn’t get me dancing on tables or anything terribly exciting, it definitely gets me upright and moving around. Maybe dancing on tables will come after my next session.
I’ve mentioned before that we have awesome friends and they keep getting more and more awesome and I haven’t even put up pics of all of the cool stuff people have sent me like the quilt my writers group with SCBWI-WI made for me or thanked all of the people, including SCBWI-OR and lots and lots of friends and writer friends, for helping us out with the astronomical expense of trying to beat cancer. So many people have stepped in to help us. My next job, after this Staying Alive job is successful, will be as a thank you card writer.
There’s an event in Madison this week to help us out and here is the blurb from facebook that I stole from Cailin who I think stole it from Kristin:
Rummage: a benefit for Bridget & Barrett. It is a super awesome garage sale that we are having Fri Jun 26th & Sat Jun 27th from 8 am to 5 pm at 4001 Drexel Ave (near Cottage Grove Rd and Monona Dr) to help raise money so Bridget can kick the cancer without worrying about the stupid bills. All we need is for all you Madison folks to help! Donate stuff to sell (send me a message) & come buy, buy, buy!
Aren’t they fabulous?
I hope everyone is having a great week!
Bridget
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06.16.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:15 pm by Bridget Zinn
First, I have to say, I feel freaking great right now. I have no idea why this is, if it’s a belated effect from the Hulk Shot they gave me or what, but after a week of being so damn tired, I feel great. This Hulk Shot was supposed to make me mighty and invulnerable by boosting my white blood cells etc., but in reality made me so so so so sleepy, also kind of achy as the cells all seemed to grow and congregate in one particular area, namely my butt bones, which possibly defies actual medical possibility as I’m sure they are supposed to spread out to do their reproducing thing, but I know when my behind hurts and, believe me, it hurt.
The sleepy was so intense that now, even though I am only doing things like walking 18 blocks (!) instead of, say, climbing a mountain like I’d like, it is such an improvement that I cannot stop smiling.
I actually spent time last week in bed having conversations with myself about just how much effort would go into say removing my chipped nail polish — “okay, if I can just sit up, then I can move my legs to the side of the bed and stand, and then I can go into the bathroom and whew, OPEN the cupboard, and then get the nail polish remover and something to soak it in like a cotton ball or something, but I have no idea where that would be, so I’d have to look for them which would require a lot of bending etc. and then once I found all of that I’d have to take the cap of the nail polish remover, soak the cotton balll, wipe off EVERY SINGLE NAIL, then throw out the cotton, possibly even multiple cotton balls, and PUT THE CAP BACK ON THE REMOVER and honestly at this point, I might as well be building the empire state building with a broken hammer and some glue, i.e. impossible, *sigh* maybe I’ll just lie here a little longer…. but this nail polish is really driving me crazy, what all would I have to do again?” and over and over and over and then maybe on to a new impossible task until Barrett helped me get up and do whatever it was I felt I had to do.
But that was last week. So far this week, I’m much better AND my nails have been tended to.
I have pics of pre-Hulk Shot adventures and the fabulous Lucky Lab auction that I will post as soon as I get them all together. And lots and lots of thanks to give out to all of the wonderful, wonderful people who helped and participated and entertained me in the live auction and the online auction and the plant sale in Madison and the rummage sale in Madison next weekend. You all are the best!
Off to enjoy energy while it lasts~
Bridget
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