about time

I am still alive and quite healthy.

Mom is doing well (despite rather uncomfortable lymphodema) and had her double mastectomy and reconstruction las fall.

I was recently in New York where I met the lovely Jen.

Toronto is warm and sunny today, and I'll be putting more vegetables in my garden this weekend.

I'm not sure how to update this blog. The feelings I have about this whole experience now are in some ways more complicated than they were in the past when I was just so unhappy and angry about the whole thing. The grief is mostly gone, but the anger is still around and possibly worse then it was before. I find anger more personal and harder to write about than grief.

I've also never really gotten over the loss of anonymity on this blog. I'll try to work around it somehow.

Comments

[Aurelia]

I hope you do post something more regularly.

Alternatively, you can start another blog and just import these posts and comments to it, and keep going?

Whatever you do, let me know and I'll follow along!

[Jeannette]

Welcome back, Louise. I'm so glad your mom is doing well. I also have lymphedema issues and they are a pain to deal with....sleeves, exercises, therapy, etc. Cancer..the gift that keeps on giving. I am also glad you are writing again. I haven't updated in swhile, but have been tempted to go back. I've missed you.

[bogartkick]

I heard that lymphodema is a curable cancer, which study shows that almost 97% of lymphodema victims are survivors, and it has a great chance for you mom to be cured and free from cancer through chemotherapy. Just be strong.