The weekend and today in review

[annathepiper]

And since it was a four-day weekend, there's quite a bit of weekend to review!

Thursday: Day of Turkey, and as with previous years, we had the Murkworks Homeless Waifs Thanksgiving Day Turkeyfest. flashfire came up from California to join us, which was neat; he brought his XBox 360 with him and there was much gaming mileage. More locally, we had mamishka and marzipan_pig and sksouth and darthhellokitty and king_chiron and dpatows and epatows and ypatows. Much tasty food was consumed. Jenga was played, as was Wii Bowling and other assorted Wii games. Kittens were mightily admired. As was their rightful due!

Friday: Day of going to speak with my radiation oncologist, as previously posted. Aside from that, there was a lot of lying around going "zzzzzz".

Saturday: Day of going out to see American Gangster finally, along with the aforementioned darthhellokitty and king_chiron. mamishka had hoped to join us, but sadly was feeling poorly. The movie, however, kicked ass. It was on the long side, but I honestly can't think of a single bit that could be easily deleted since it's all vital data in there. The plot thread with Denzel Washington's character and the one with Russell Crowe's character are rather like two charging bulls closing in inevitably on one another until they collide with thunderous impact towards the end. Denzel put in a hell of a performance, flipping between dutiful son and loving husband to gangster with a frightening temper, and Russell was fabulous as always.

Saturday night, after I got back from the movie, we watched the BSG movie Razor on the Tivo. More on this in another post. ^_^

Sunday: Balancing the checkbook, oh joy oh glee, but there was also Jam! More on this, too, in another post. The Jam, that is, not the checkbook balancing.

Other general points of interest: I worked out with my boss this morning how to rearrange my schedule during my forthcoming radiation treatments. We agreed that I'd come in earlier than normal, which translates to "get to work by 8am". As I usually get in around 8:45, this means I'll have to get up 45 minutes earlier, too. Which means I have to get up at 6. Ugh. Here's hoping that it won't kick my ass too terribly much, both the earlier time for getting up and the radiation treatment in general.

The good news is, though, that I did work out how to get to Kirkland from downtown and then home again from Kirkland by bus. So I won't have to drive for any of it, yay. And I got updated FMLA paperwork into our HR department today, to cover all my bases in case the radiation fatigue I've heard about does actually kick my ass.

Meanwhile, the weather tonight has been atrocious, and I've been sneezing off and on all night. I had damn well better not be coming down with a cold, as right now is a perfectly godawful time for me to get sick. I'll be sucking on as many zinc lozenges as I can stand.

Miles since the 6th: 39.9
Miles out of Hobbiton: 2484.7
Miles out of Isengard: 691.7
Miles to Minas Tirith: 94.3

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Hey, I just had a thought... if the treatment for the radiation side-effects is like a sunburn, go whole hog with it. Not just the aloe, but, at least for me, when I get a sunburn, I take a couple of aspirin (and, funny *specifically* aspirin), and then tank up on the water and/or Gatorade (or Propel if you want *just* the electrolytes and don't mind the Splenda). You might talk to your rad guy about it, but I expect that given what it's doing to you, such a common-sense approach can't be too far off. I know that whenever I get a nasty sunburn, if I do that, I feel much better....

Also, make sure your endo and your rad guy are talking. I've no idea if they'll want to fiddle with your T4/T3 balance or not, but it's always a good idea that the right hand know what the left hand is doing.

(How are you getting back from Kirkland? 238 to 372/522? I know the 252/255/257 routes by heart, but knowing how to get from the med center to here would be useful....)

Lots of Vitamin C for whatever that is that's trying to, ahh, bug you... if it takes hold anyway, take (eyeballs your size) 1500mg of C to start, then like 500mg an hour until the excess (you can't OD on VC) begins to break down into CO2, with.... predictable results. When it does, you've got a dead cold walking. An old scientist friend taught me that trick after researching it extensively himself; it works rather well.

Be good to yourself.... and when this is over, we shall have to throw you one heck of a birthday party. :)

[annathepiper]

My endoc knows of Dr. Taylor, yeah; he actually knows the guy, it seems. When I mentioned to him that Taylor is the guy I'm seeing for the radiation therapy, Dr. Gross looked all approving and stuff.

I'm supposed to go in next week for a followup with Dr. Gross, so yeah, I'll be mentioning to him that radiation therapy is starting next week as well.

Re: the drinks, that sounds kind of like what I do when I feel sun-sick. (Less of a sunburn thing and more of an 'I've just been out in the sun too long' thing.) I'll keep that in mind, thanks. :)

Bus-wise, I'm looking at taking either the 252 or the 257 from work to Kirkland. From Kirkland to home, yeah, the 238->372/522 option is one, as is the 935->68th and Bothell Way option, according to the Metro Trip Planner. Much will depend on the timing of appointments, as to which bus I'll be on at any given time.

Overloads of C don't seem to help me much when I'm ill. But Dara's got me sucking on zinc lozenges right and left, and the ones in question have extra stuff in 'em too. I'll need to look at the ingredients list, C may be in there anyway. :)

Re: birthday party, well, we'll see what happens when the time comes. *^_^*

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

I want to see American Gangster. I'm a fan of Denzel and Russell separately appearing in movies; now that they're together in a movie, I'd imagine it'd be one hell of a movie.

P.s. Name the movie this icon is from (although, it shouldn't be too difficult).

[annathepiper]

This is actually the second movie they've been in together, which is the funny part of it. The first one was Virtuosity in 1995--which actually wasn't very good. ;) But in that one, Russell was the bad guy and Denzel was the hero! Now it's flipped around, which makes me giggle.

[annathepiper]

*snicker* I pegged it the instant I saw it, of course. It's been a while since I've seen Gladiator, but not that long!