Showing posts with label Collingwood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Collingwood. Show all posts

It's all Relatively Good

October 14 
 
I have a confession to make . . .
I found a more attractive option than this blog, and it has distracted me for the past few months. That distraction was summer, and for someone on the transplant list it was a relatively 'normal' summer, in fact I'd stretch the headline to read 'A Great Summer' relatively speaking. It's all so very relative. 

Now that I'm approaching my sixth month on THE LIST, I can say with confidence that-- after a quick scan of the exercise room at Toronto General, filled with people three times my age, shuffling from machine to machine on 15 L of oxygen-- that I, relative to that, felt 'normal'. I was fortunate enough to walk around the city without my oxygen for most of the summer (though later would discover that perhaps a little extra 02 wouldn't have hurt) and I was able to stay off Cipro for a full two months (which meant I could enjoy the sunshine without the worry of charring). I took ten weeks of French lessons (not sure how much I actually absorbed), celebrated my belated graduation with friends, visited my sister in Parry Sound, went to several TIFF movies, the EX,  enjoyed a few trips to Collingwood, saw my first Cirque Du Soliel show (Totem) and spent another few nice weekends just relaxing in Toronto. Not to mention I attended the biggest event of the summer: Couture Fashion for a Cure Found, which was even better this year (if you could believe it). I stepped back a bit this year and just focused on designing the program. In a way it was nice to just take the whole experience in from my front row seat, since last year I was so busy running around that I couldn't quite appreciate it all.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

The drop in mercury and colouring leaves signal that fall has arrived. And my favourite thing about the fall is eating all the yummy fall foods... including the best feast of all: Thanksgiving dinner.

Part of my family has rounded up at our chalet in Collingwood and as I type this our 19 lb Turkey is being prepared for a day of baking--and temptation. I will soon go pick our carrots out of our garden--the last harvest. I hope they turned out alright!

Before I do though, I thought I should mentioned what I am thankful for, since this--besides stuffing your face--is part of the whole point of this extended weekend.

No particular order:

  • Fam + Friends
  • Delicious food
  • MSN, blogger, FB and other forms of internet communication
  • Sunny crisp fall days
  • Holidays to sunny, warmer places when one cannot handle 'crisp' days anymore
  • Bonfires
  • A warm cup of tea
  • A warm cup of tea with chocolate
  • Roller coasters that make you scream like a terrified infant being torn from their mother's grasp (specifically)
  • People that help you out when you least expect it
  • Humor
  • Pajama days 
  • Good movies you want to watch over and over again
  • Being off of oxygen for 7 months! woo! (Still use for exercise but that's no biggie)
  • Good-looking celebs to gush over
  • Dr. Horrible
  • Crantinis
  • Good books you can't put down
  • Wii
  • Nearly being done my time at GH
  • Purell 
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Photo evidence for your viewing pleasure

When you take a look around at other people's blogs they show you pictures of awesome transplant incision scars, or never-before-seen reactions to drugs or a step-by-step of a picc line insertion. Sadly, I have none of that interesting stuff to share with you today.

BUT I got bored enough to actually take photo evidence of what the Twinrix shot has kindly left behind... a sore, red, hard--did I mentioned sore?--bump.



In light of my terrible experience with this shot, I phoned clinic and asked if I could delay my second HPV shot that I have scheduled for next week. Mainly because, quite frankly, I can't afford to spend three days in bed again.

In an effort to not allow these photos to uglify my blog. Here are some pretty photos of my garden (well, it became the family garden) that we built in Collingwood this summer. (More to come later!)


 
 Discussing important things...


 
 Charles the bunny plotting to break in the garden (carrots are right behind him)


Taking it all in

Mom creeping from behind with the camera



What was in our garden?
Zucchini, carrots, snow peas, beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, peppers, various herbs and (perhaps) later some lettuce...

Charles the bunny not included.