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Hi Peeps!
I was waxing nostalgic the other day and it dawned on me that I was coming up on a milestone. Five years ago I decided to begin treatment for my g3 HCV on July 4. Independence Day seemed like a very fitting time to start. I was a bad girl and blew off the last PCR that my GI wanted me to do. I was (and still am) completely embroiled in a war with the health insurance/COBRA that I had. I picked at a bone of contention. Doc said that you weren't technically "cured" until you had 5 years of clean PCRs. Didn't want her bursting THAT bubble. In my mind, I was and shall remain SVR! Last week I also celebrated the two year mark since I finished tx for stage 3 breast cancer.
I'm seeing just a few names from some of the people who were here back when I treated. Ah, such memories. I hope you're all getting all of the support you need. This place saved my butt and created lots of great opportunities to laugh (unless we broached the forbidden topics - religion or politics - and then all he|| broke loose).
Hope you're all doing well. Me and my best beloved moved last year. I was sad to give up my cottage near the ocean but it was so much cheaper to live inland. We're 90 miles from either coast so I have quite a ride if I want to be a sun queen. Actually I see one of my doctors every month in Jupiter, which is on the Atlantic ocean side, so I have a monthly opportunity to stick my toe in the water. We reached a point where we had to do something as our insurance bills came to $6000 a year. Now we pay that much for taxes, insurance and mortgage combined on a nearly new much larger home. We still have our travel trailer on a perm spot at a CG about 20 miles down the road. That's how we found this place. It was my weekend hideaway while I was going through all kinds of health issues. I keep nudging BB to get it roadworthy so we can take trips down to the keys. I still love snorkeling!
Here's a pic of my backyard. Say hello to Isis and Cleo, my jacks. The yard was just grass. I live surrounded by farms and yet I can't find any good organic produce. The cancer dx did me in and I had to change so much about the way we eat. I belonged to a CSA but there's nothing like that here. I went with the food, not lawns movement and started digging up the back yard about 6 months ago. We put in a little patio with a firepit so we could sit outside and stargaze in the winter. So far I have two 4'x10' raised beds. Now I'm working on a 3'x20' bed that is in the ground. I also have another area sectioned off to grow corn and watermelon. Watermelon was my go to food on chemo. I couldn't handle much more.
Enough babble. Be sweet! Newbies remember that it gets better. It gets way, way better!
I'm seeing just a few names from some of the people who were here back when I treated. Ah, such memories. I hope you're all getting all of the support you need. This place saved my butt and created lots of great opportunities to laugh (unless we broached the forbidden topics - religion or politics - and then all he|| broke loose).
Hope you're all doing well. Me and my best beloved moved last year. I was sad to give up my cottage near the ocean but it was so much cheaper to live inland. We're 90 miles from either coast so I have quite a ride if I want to be a sun queen. Actually I see one of my doctors every month in Jupiter, which is on the Atlantic ocean side, so I have a monthly opportunity to stick my toe in the water. We reached a point where we had to do something as our insurance bills came to $6000 a year. Now we pay that much for taxes, insurance and mortgage combined on a nearly new much larger home. We still have our travel trailer on a perm spot at a CG about 20 miles down the road. That's how we found this place. It was my weekend hideaway while I was going through all kinds of health issues. I keep nudging BB to get it roadworthy so we can take trips down to the keys. I still love snorkeling!
Here's a pic of my backyard. Say hello to Isis and Cleo, my jacks. The yard was just grass. I live surrounded by farms and yet I can't find any good organic produce. The cancer dx did me in and I had to change so much about the way we eat. I belonged to a CSA but there's nothing like that here. I went with the food, not lawns movement and started digging up the back yard about 6 months ago. We put in a little patio with a firepit so we could sit outside and stargaze in the winter. So far I have two 4'x10' raised beds. Now I'm working on a 3'x20' bed that is in the ground. I also have another area sectioned off to grow corn and watermelon. Watermelon was my go to food on chemo. I couldn't handle much more.
Enough babble. Be sweet! Newbies remember that it gets better. It gets way, way better!
It's so cool when people check back in long after tx, and especially when their story is a good one. Thanks for the smiles!
That is a very triumphant story, and I love yr name, Sun Queen.. a song from The Cult :)
I stop by every once in awhile and saw your post. I am glad to see you are enjoying life.
We sold our boat and bought a house in Sarasota. We make a trip to NY every year so that I can visit Mt Sinai and see friends as well.
It's great to see all the good news here, now that the drugs are so much more efficacious.
Stay well. Perhaps someday we will bump into each other now that we are neighbors -- at least in the same state.
We sold our boat and bought a house in Sarasota. We make a trip to NY every year so that I can visit Mt Sinai and see friends as well.
It's great to see all the good news here, now that the drugs are so much more efficacious.
Stay well. Perhaps someday we will bump into each other now that we are neighbors -- at least in the same state.
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