A Year Later

It has been a year, and I recently got another cancer scare. The right side of my chest was all red with some kind of infection. But when I went to the doctor, he said it look like metastisized cancer. I took antibiotics (levaquin) and it started subsiding. But then flared up again. So he took a biopsy and last week over the holidays I had to wait for a week to get the results. Thank God, it isn't cancer. But we don't know what it is. I also had a reaction to the levaquin. My ankles (aquilles tendon) had been hurting ever since i started taking it, but I didn't think it had anything to do with the antibiotic. Well I have found out since that it affects the tendons and can even pop the tendon off the bone. It can last for years. So I have the ankle pain, and tendon pain in my knee, and also on my shoulder! i am really getting tired of falling apart!!

I've had a good year, though. After the surgery, I seemed to rally, after becoming anemic and taking iron. I have been painting alot and enjoying my studio. I managed to buy a mobile home because the prices are so low now, and I am so much happier being in my own place. The low income place was full of crazy old ladies....I could write a book about that place! It would have killed me to stay there much longer. I live on very little, but as long as I can paint I am happy.
My daughter calls on my birthday and I call now and then to ask how things are going. I haven't seen the grandchildren at all...Oh wait, I did go down to their place to see my 16 year old grandaughter ride her horse in a show, and spent time with the twins. I felt so sad, because it felt so good, and I knew this wouldn't happen much. It was almost better not having had the experience because I miss them more.