On Wednesday the doctor told me that I am cured of lung cancer! I thought I was going to have to wait another three and a half years to be pronounced cancer free. It has been a year and a half since the surgery which removed my upper left lobe.
It was a very unusual slow-growing tumor which had been misdiagnosed as pneumonia by three doctors in eight years. My lung specialist said that he had never heard of anything like that before.
I went into the ER to because I had a bad fall on the way to the front porch to have a cigarette. One of my doctors at the ER, not in the field, reminded me for the second time that he thought that I needed to have that spot biopsied. He was right.
I haven’t had that cigarette yet and don’t plan on it. That was almost two years ago. (It took a while to build up strength for the surgery five months later.)
Tell me your good news. It could be something little or big. Anything to celebrate!
I bought an iPod Shuffle in January to listen to audio when I did my daily walk indoors in cold weather. However, the damn thing played the tracks I uploaded in some unpredictable order rather than the order I wanted. I double-checked the “on” switch on the iPod, and I always had it on the middle position (for regular play), NOT the end position (for shuffling the tracks). I Googled for suggested fixes and tried all I could find, but none of them worked. I figured I could live with the problem, but it was my first piece of Apple hardware and I was very unhappy about it.
I pulled it out again for the cold weather this season. My walk takes one hour, and last season I just uploaded enough tracks for one day. This season I decided to load up a few days’ worth of audio at once. I put one hour in a separate playlist for each day (and every day I would just switch playlists).
To my great surprise and happiness, on the first day the tracks played in exactly the order they were in the playlist! <does happy dance> The same thing happened EVERY following day!
The only thing I’m doing differently from last season is the way I upload tracks. This season I put all the tracks in playlists, then in the iPod window I checked the boxes to sync to those playlists. Last season IIRC I was just putting tracks into a playlist, then dragging those tracks (NOT the playlist) to the iPod, either one at a time or by selecting all of them then dragging, neither of which preserved the order. After Christmas I’ll try to reproduce last season’s problems. If I can’t, I’ll just have to thank the pixies who fixed it sometime in the past year while I was asleep.
That is awesome news. My news is trivial in comparison, but I signed a contract for a new job the other day. Looking forward to a regular and relatively generous paycheck (my previous job paid well but the pay was hourly so it was irregular). We are saving up for a honeymoon in New Zealand.
My good news is that my son got his PSAT scores back yesterday. Even though he took them in 10th grade (11th is standard), he got a 68 in writing (equivalent to a 680 in the old scoring system) and a perfect score in both math and reading (like a pair of 800s).
I’ve completed qualifying as a teacher, received the QTS certificate in the post yesterday, and have a teaching job lined up for January. Pretty small potatoes compared to the OP though.
Congrats, all - especially Zoe & Antigen! And Zoe, congratulations on staying off the cigarettes too!
Nothing superfantastic in my world right now, but I did get my courage up and submit an application for a fitness “scholarship” that would cover 6 months of a boot-camp style workout that I’ve been intrigued by for a while but that I haven’t been able to find the money in my budget for.
I finally got through the nightmare of applying at the health plan exchange in my state. I’m now covered for healthcare until my medicare kicks in and will never be without coverage again. The bad news is that I now have no excuse to continue avoiding that colonoscopy and mammogram.
Well, it’s hard to top your news since you set the bar so high, but I woke up to an email from the photo editor of a magazine asking to print one of my photos in their publication as a full-spread with a blurb about me and the photo - and offering to pay me $200 for the honor. I’ve only been taking pictures seriously for about six months so this is quite exciting.
This is your last note…you will start to get warnings after this.
This is known as “threadshitting”, do not do this.
And I strongly suggest you stop posting every post about self-pity, because we have rules here about being a “one-trick pony” too. If you want to continue posting here, stop posting about the same stuff.
What did you decide? I went back to school 11 years after high school thinking that I finally knew what I wanted. A year after getting my AA, I started another program because it turned out I was wrong.
My good news is that I did not flunk out of my first semester in the Respiratory Care program!!! Considering we lost 7 of our original 20, I’m amazed I made it. This shit is HARD!!!
I was one of several people hired by SkepChick to blog for a new parenting based blogging network they’re launching very soon. I am so excited to have another writing outlet. My friend nurse Melody Butler does not post here but she’ll be on Good Day New York on Fox News tomorrow to tell you all you need to know about the flu vaccine. Go Melody!
That is a wonderful day- it’s my birthday! Congrats! I know you’ve been struggling for a while.
Good news on the cancer-freeness, the new jobs, and everything else, too.
My good news is that… er… oh yeah, I got my Christmas shopping done today. Presents for everyone to celebrate.
