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one of the greatest things about organic gardening + toddlers is that some nights you find a d’avignon radish in nuggetdaddy’s bathroom drawer.
monday, the pet specialist will read my scans. i should hear something that day. i’ll be sure to post as soon as i do.
tonight, nugget and nugget daddy are sleeping in nugget’s big girl bedroom (aka, the guestroom) because mama is radioactive. this means i get the whole california king bed to myself. well, myself and the two cats. i hope they can find some room to squeeze in. the steroids are doing wonderful things to my physique. i’ll share with you my lastest self-portrait.
a woman i used to work with messaged me on myspace this week. i read it yesterday and it absolutely made my day, which i might add was spectacularly craptastic up until then.
“i started working at magic kingdom back in 1997 and only partially knew who you were. you were always cool to me at town square and spectro and stuff, but we were only acquaintances.i happened upon your page through mikki and started reading your blog, “bits of myself”, and i cannot help being taken by how fucking amazing you are. sorry for the language from someone you do not know, but i can’t think of any other words. i don’t even remember where i started the “bits”, but i backed up to where you found out you had cancer. by the time i got to your final breast feeding with nugget, there were uncontrollable tears streaming down my face at how you kept apologizing to her, for something that you did not ask for.
i don’t know how much all of this means coming from someone you don’t know, but i just had to get this out. i was driving ddct floats when you were at mk with your baby girl, and i saw you two days in a row. knowing how painful it must be, there you stood in the sun, in a tank top, bald…smiling and waving.
i hope i didn’t weird you out with all this, but know that you have touched one more individual’s life. you are the strongest woman that i don’t know.”
i just needed to thank you for that and let you know that your kind words have touched my heart. thank you for reading my blog. and thank you to all of you who continue to do so. i hope you’ll all stay tuned for the exciting conclusion to this chapter of my life.
it’s difficult keeping up with a toddler all day. it’s really difficult when you have cancer. we have to start doing something different, for everyone’s sanity. sure, people come to help, here and there, but it isn’t enough. there are simply too many days when i can’t manage on my own. we’ve got to find a solution.
we’re working on plans right now, plans for our house, plans for our lives, plans for my treatment. it’s challenging figuring out how all the pieces of each individual puzzle are going to fit into the big picture.
we have to start splitting our time between here and there, “here” being where we live and “there” being where we will live. down there we’ll be with my parents who will help with nugget and nugget daddy won’t have to “commute” two and a half hours. i’ll be able to keep an eye on the house construction and bring a steady flow of coffee and doughnuts to the site. up here i’ll continue with my treatment at my oncologist and we’ll keep nugget happily enrolled in her gymboree class.
tomorrow is my birthday. so come life, let’s see what plans you’ve got for me this year.
today, the motherwear breastfeeding blog is running a compliation piece of mine. i’m so honored and excited! if you haven’t subscribed to that blog yet, i highly recommend it.
and since we’re already talking about me, here’s what some other people have had to say about me recently:
going for the gold – world breastfeeding week 2008
pure love
you’re going to cry
what love looks like
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