Katy

by on April 26, 2022 at 12:01 am
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The American military tested their newest supersoldier serum on the Spittin’ Kittens after The War began. Kathleen Reynolds led them out on numerous combat operations over the next few months, and they soon proved that they could fight nearly as good as her. Their long campaign culminated in the tumultuous Battle of Fort Wichita, when she personally shot down six Shang fighters and organized one of the many flanking actions that eventually forced the Shang to retreat before they could destroy the orbital fort. That earned the Kittens a complete set of priority tech upgrades from the Peloran fleet, which Katy quickly took advantage of. She turned the Kittens into even more of a nuisance to both the Shang and the Chinese fleets from Earth to Alpha Centauri in the months that followed.

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Cancer / Not Cancer

by on April 25, 2022 at 12:01 am
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My mom is doing well. She is more tired than she likes some days, but she is enjoying reading and watching TV series again. She had a good birthday, and we had Dairy Queen Ice Cream cake to celebrate her living through another orbit around the Sun. I’m doing good as well. My pulled muscle is more a strain now, and all the other muscle groups are less annoyed with me now. Who would have known that couch surfing for a month or three would be bad for my health? Judging by the looks from my friends, I think I must be the only one who didn’t think that. I’m still tag teaming Tylenol and Ibuprofen every six hours, but it no longer hurts to exist and I’m moving as normal once more. Carefully. I even did some limited yard work over the weekend. Carefully.

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Not Cancer

by on April 24, 2022 at 12:01 am
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So, I pulled a muscle today. Was doing one thing, and a totally different muscle in my chest gave way. My first thought was, “Thank God it’s just a muscle.” It had been hurting all day and I was starting to wonder if it was serious. My second thought was “Oh God it hurts.” Not kidding. On a scale of 0 to 5 broken ribs, this hurt more. It was agony. It was nearing “man with cold” on the universe ending scale. It hurt to breathe. It hurt not to breathe. It hurt to move. It hurt not to move. My life was one unending spectrum of hurt. Now my mom has some pain pills right now. Including one that is “take one for pain once every four hours, and if you need it more than, you need to go to the emergency room” level of painkiller. But it would be wrong and possibly illegal for me to take those, so long story short, Tylenol and Ibuprofen are wonder drugs that have made me the new man I am today. 🙂

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Cancer

by on April 23, 2022 at 12:01 am
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There are good days and bad days. Sometimes we push ourselves beyond our limits and just have to stop. Sometimes there are small things that tell you things are getting better. Mom just told me that she can read books again. She hasn’t been able to read for months, because she can’t maintain focus. She will read a paragraph, and have no idea what she read. Now she can sit down and read a book again and remember it. She can sit down and watch a TV series she hasn’t seen in months because she couldn’t concentrate on it. Sometimes it is the little things that are enormous.

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Cancer

by on April 22, 2022 at 12:01 am
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The blood tests came back good for mom, and her specialists are all content with how she is progressing. Mom is feeling better herself, and is so far not suffering from a major dip in ability to operate in the week following her keytruda treatment. Either her body is adjusting to it, or it was not the source of her side effects in the first place. I will continue to closely monitor her. I ran into a bit of complication though. I moved into her basement, and have been sleeping on a couch down there. Very comfortable. A 1970s trampoline couch that is as comfortable as my waterbed. But I can’t lay flat on it, and it would seem that is not good. I’ve been having trouble getting to sleep this week, but didn’t connect the dots. It seems some of my muscle groups (especially around the left shoulder) have been unable to properly relax while I’m asleep, and today I woke up with my body telling me it was done sleeping on the couch. So off to a real bed I go…

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