Medical cleanup.

Next day on the eye. Yep. Swelling in full force today. Sigh. Oh well, the world keeps turning.

Time to clean out the medicines.


And so it begins. I pulled all the meds out of the kitchen and bathroom. Time to cull.


I opened the “Emergency “ pack from the cancer center. I think I kept everything. Ya never know what you need in the future.


The Chuck pile.


The end result to ship


What stays in the kitchen cabinet for last minute packing.


One more thing off my list of things todo.

My poor eye

Left eye. I had a growth...Er scabby place remixed from my left eye lid today at lunch. I only have me to blame as they wanted to say it was blah blah blah that wasn’t a big deal. Why did I press to get a biopsy? Last time they thought it was “nothing” it was skin cancer. This is also the eye lid where I had a mole at the edge of the lash line that over the years has “spread” and colon cancer warns of susceptibility to skin cancer...and I already had two spots of nasal cell. Soooooo better safe than sorry at this point.

Long story to say I told them I’m simply too paranoid - biopsy it!


Can’t see it! I had just driven back to the office. It was just starting to swell a little.


Barely see it and without the glasses you can see it’s swelling a bit now.


Close up. Not too gross.

Fast forward to the end of the day. 3:30pm. And it’s now noticeable enough that a coworker commented on it. Yep!!



Swelling notable with glasses now.





Yikes. Really red now - boooo.

Oh well. I’m home now and putting Neosporin on it until bed time.

I won’t wine too bad about it because I did it to myself by insisting on a biopsy.

Scars....

Why are all my scars just weird?  My stoma scar was a small hole that was less than quarter sized when it started...it spread!  Now it’s silver dollar size... 

my port removal started out smooth then pulled up in a knot on one side. What the heck?  Why can’t they stay nice and small and “normal”. Sigh. I know, I know. It’s character and I’m alive...I get it, I really do. But it would be nice to just have a small flat line of a scar on my chest...the belly?  Meh. I don’t care as much on that one. 

One of these days I’ll have a scar that doesn’t go all weird.
Better yet, no more scars....how about that?

Excerpts from life.

SO this story came out today...

ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) — A school district has apologized to parents, after hosting a drag queen as part of a career day. A spokesperson for Adams 12 Five Star schools said Rocky Top Middle School staff should have notified parents a drag queen would be speaking to their children, before allowing the speech to happen.

 

Students at Rocky Top range from 6th to 8th grade. The drag queen, identified as a woman who goes by “Jessica L’Whor,” is a relative of one student. The district confirmed she was invited to attend career day….. (with more discussions… )

 

L’Whor did not perform for the students, rather electing to read a book which addressed bullying.

(with more discussions… this is just an excerpt )

 

What are your thoughts on this?  I think I'm on the rare side who thinks it would be fine as my kids at that age had already been exposed (introduced?) to those who have a different lifestyle than they, themselves would choose.

 

They have a relative who is gay.  They have relatives who have had children without marriage.  They have relatives who are religious and religious in what some consider non-main stream religion as they are from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (aka Mormons).  They even had friends who self-identified as a different gender than what society deemed them as based on their biological make up.  I'm sure they had already seen cross dressing in the media and on TV.  So, why NOT start a discussion about it?  I don't see this as being any different than the sex talks at school... or the discussions about religions they had already had with friends and us.

 

What are YOUR thoughts on this?