Catching up

[morgan_dhu]

I have been spending far too much time on Facebook and perhaps not enough here, although I know there’s some overlap between folks who subscribe to my personal journal here and folks who are FB contacts, so I’m reluctant to bore people who end up seeing much the same stuff in both places.

FB is a place where I post a lot of links to articles, but I also have gotten into the habit of posting interesting excerpts from books I’m currently reading. And it’s where I tend to post about what’s happening in my life, which these days is mostly about all the annoying medical shit I’m dealing with.

My kidneys are still in serious trouble. My urologist isn’t crazy about having to do invasive surgery on me because of multiple risk factors, so he’s trying to reduce the size of the kidney stones that are filling up mu kidneys and blocking my ureters with drug therapy. If we can get them small enough, he can go in through my bladder and zap them with lasers, rather than cutting mire holes in my back and opening up the kidneys.

On January 9th I go to the gynecological oncolgy department of the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre to begin the process of seeing whether the mass on my ovary is cancer. Non-malignancy vibes are welcome.

In the meantime, I’m still in too much pain and have too much hardware hanging off me to resume ohysiotherapy, so I am still not able to walk. It’s been well over a year now since I broke my foot, and I have been hit with one medical setback after another, sapping my strength and my ability to function.

I am not a big fan of my life right now.

At least I still have books to read. And (most if the time) enough of a brain to read them.