My good day

Today was a good day. It didn't start so good as I was pretty tired when I got up this morning as despite taking some Benadryl I couldn't fall asleep till almost 4am last night. I was coughing a lot, which kept waking me just as I would start to drift, and when I wasn't coughing I was just laying there in this kind of tired stupor, not quite awake, but not sleeping either. I got up around 8:15 to get showered and dressed as we were having very exciting visitors at 9am. The glass guys were coming to put the glass and shower door into our newly renovated master bathroom!!! This is the final touch that will allow us to actually USE the bathroom (well, not till tomorrow morning, but it's exciting today nonetheless!) We started work the last week in September (they did 2 bathrooms- the hall bathroom and then the master bathroom) so it's been months of waiting. We hadn't really used the master bathroom since moving into the house since it had a really lousy shower (but had the only tub in the house, so Z. used it every night) so A. and I took our showers in the hall bathroom (which was renovated first and we put in a tub/shower so we have all been using that finished bathroom for a few months now). Starting tomorrow, for the first time since we've lived here, we'll be using the master bathroom and Z. will be using the hall bathroom. This may not seem like such a big deal, but to me it is.

So, while the glass guys worked quietly upstairs (they really were very quiet for construction guys) I finally sat myself down and called (and faxed) all the places I still needed to call to arrange to get cd's of my CT and PET scans, and the original glass slides for 3 different biopsies done over the last few years to bring to my Fox Chase appt. in a couple weeks. Again, this may not seem to be such a big deal, but I've been putting this off for weeks. I'm not sure why exactly, and I did get most of the other things I needed (paper records- and I do still have one more of those to get too), but I just couldn't get myself to call for them till today. It felt like a huge accomplishment to have that done. Of course I still have to go pick up all these things, but for some reason that seems so much easier to me.

So after that I rewarded myself with a trip to the library (we live a half a block away). I took out 3 books, 3 cd's and 1 dvd. One of the books is a humor book by Bob Newhart, I have no idea if it's any good but I figured a funny book would be a great way to pass the waiting room time next week during radiation.

I went to my support group at The Wellness Community today and it was really good, I am so glad that I decided to join a group this time around. We had a lot of really interesting and thought provoking discussions about all kinds of things. It's really helping me immensely being able to talk every week with these people.

Early this evening the delivery guys came with my new recliner chair and after dinner A. and I rearranged the living room (numerous times) to find a new arrangement that would accommodate the chair, allow people to see the tv and each other and not make the living room look lopsided (or like a movie theater). I think we came up with something pretty good, so we decided to live with it for a while and see. Z. was pretty excited about the new arrangement and especially about my new chair which she took every opportunity to sit in when I wasn't in it.

Well I think I'm going to go sit in my new recliner chair with a hot cup of tea (to help break up my chest congestion) and relax.