12.11.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:23 pm by Bridget Zinn
I got great news from the docs on yesterday. There’s no cancer around where my primary tumor was taken out. Woo hoo!
It’s all that good energy you’ve been sending me — cleared out a whole area! I’ve still got a couple of areas needing some cancer clearing left to go, but I have no doubt that all of your good energy will do its work.
You all are the best!
Especially, all of you who are participating in the Bridget Zinn auction– bidders, donaters, and organizers. You all are like the best best which is pretty best if you ask me. (The lovely organizers have made the ID to get into the auction “bridget” and the password “rules”.)
I’m trying not to spend too much time on the auction site tempted to bid on my own auction (have you seen Jone’s postcards — GORGEOUS!), but I did notice that there are a lot of great deals and the writing critiques are definitely all still in the great deal category.
Usually one of the only ways to get an insightful and professional critique is by going to a writing conference — something I love doing and recommend, BUT they are rather pricey — anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, plus the fact that often you don’t get to choose the author, editor, or agent you’d like to have critique your work. Now’s your chance to get a critique from the professional of your choice! We really have some fabulous people donating their time — well worth checking out (and then bidding!).
V. exciting stuff.
In other news, I just got my copy of Boys Without Names by my friend Kashmira Sheth and I’m super excited about it. The earlier draft that I’d read was already gripping and beautiful and full of make-me-cry-but-feel-hopeful-too moments, and I can already tell that the finished book is going to knock my socks off. It comes out in January and you can pre-order it here.
Luckily, it is the perfect weekend for book reading as it is cold, cold, cold in Portland. Definitely curl up and read by the fire kind of weather.
I hope you stay warm and have a great weekend!
Love to you all,
Bridget
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12.06.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:10 pm by Bridget Zinn
You healthy people out there, do you just wake up and think “Wow, I feel FABULOUS!!!” and want to dance on the roof because you feel so great? Like every day? Because every time I have a healthy day, that’s exactly how I feel.
LIKE DANCING ON THE ROOF!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO HOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Except that my upstairs neighbors would probably complain.
And if the roof of our rental is anywhere near the condition that the basement is in, it would probably be really dangerous.
Plus, Barrett would undoubtedly catch me trying to sneak up there and give me that “Why do you always insist on doing dangerous things that will require me to take you to the emergency room?” look that I get now and then, and, while I know it is meant with love, sometimes I get it just for getting my contact lost somewhere it’s not supposed to be like below my eyeball so his danger ranking is way more sensitive than mine.
But, then again, I’ve never had to take him to the emergency room and he’s taken me there at least four times just this year.
So no dancing on the roof, today anyway, but I feel great! There has to be a less dangerous outlet for this great feeling of healthiness that is flooding through me.
For one thing, I am almost pretty much entirely over the Full Moon Fever (otherwise known as a virus — my blood work came back all on the up-and-up, so we could rule out anything exotic). The Fever was sort of awful but I kept thinking, you know, this really isn’t as bad as chemo. It’s just nature. 
My body is more than up for the task of fighting off a little bit of nature. Then I remembered those stories my friend Mitch told me about people getting chomped by grizzly bears in Glacier National Park and I realized that I would so be singing a different tune if I was getting chomped by nature in the form of a grizzly bear. Or battered by Orcas like that family up in the Strait of Juan de Fuca or Puget Sound or somewhere thereabouts.
That would totally suck. So I’m really happy that the nature that was chomping me was a virus and not that tough of one either since I seem to have conquered it.
BUT, and this is sort of the best part, I WAS TOO SICK TO GET CHEMO ON FRIDAY. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hah!!!!! I feel just like when you’re a kid and you don’t go to school because you’re too sick BUT THEN YOU GET BETTER THAT SAME DAY and you still got out of school and you get to stay home and watch Christmas movies anyway.
This is the longest I’ve been off chemo since June, I think. It’s usually every two weeks. My body is getting all strong and hearty and hale and I get to feel good for one whole extra week. What am I going to do with myself?
Also, my ct scan from last week came back great again. Still going in the shrinkage direction.
How fabulous is that?
Have a great week!
Love,
Bridget
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12.03.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:36 pm by Bridget Zinn
Sadly, I have turned into the Ruiner of Birthday Fun Times. I blame it on Full Moon Fever. Last month during the full moon and on my birthday, I got the fever. It only lasted a day so wasn’t too atrocious. This time, on the full moon and Barrett’s birthday, it’s lasted for FOUR DAYS! Oy! It’s not too terrible today, around 100-ish, but I’m ready to move on.
I was trying to be all natural (my body gets enough drugs from the chemo docs) and “let the fever run its course” but last night I’d had it. It was Barrett’s b-day and there I was a shivering ball of misery and freezing cold-ness while my temp was edging up to 102. So I took some Tylenol. Holy cow, but it is a miracle drug! Suddenly, I was able to walk around without feeling the need to dodge under the covers for warmth. And could eat cupcakes (thanks Aunt Jane and Co.!) with the birthday boy.
Thanks to everyone who emailed or wished Barrett a happy birthday — it added a lot to my feeble feverish attempts at birthday jollyness.
I haven’t been able to keep up with the auction which is probably a good thing, because the items are so fabulous they tempt me and I know it is WRONG to bid on your own auction. I’m dying to read Sarah Prineas’s next Magic Thief book, but I’m going to have to wait until it comes out next year. You lucky folks can go bid on an advanced copy right now! And that is just one fabulous auction item. There’s so much more! The generosity of folks has been simply amazing and my friends who are putting this all together are seemingly tireless in their efforts to get it all organized.
And my super agent Michael, as well as donating a critique to the auction which I would highly recommend as he is a genius, wrote up the nicest plug for the auction ever on his blog which you can check out here. I’m so happy to be a member of the Upstart Crow Family.
Off to nap off the rest of the Full Moon Fever.
Hope you all are having a great week!
Love to you all,
Bridget
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