Oof

Hearing bad news about other people's cancer doesn't exactly give me the best motivation and/or hope. :/ I hate hearing bad cancer news, I wish I could reverse it for everyone and make everybody OK and healthy.

That said, I had a good day today! I haven't been feeling well at all this past week and a bit (first a bad cold, then IUD problems) but today I felt fine and my husband and I had a lovely afternoon and evening. I ended up drifting off super early (around 9:30) after drinking a bit of booze, wellll the bad side to that is that I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall back asleep. I woke up in the middle of the night...with cramps! ArGH, stupid IUD! Not sure if the alcohol played a part in that, triggering it or whatever, but I'm sure that would have happened anyway. ANYWAYS. I'm wide-awake now and it's 4:16 AM, blah...ah well, at least I've had a good day.

And I don't usually use this blog to talk about TV shows, but omg The Walking Dead is SO good!

Spring time

I'm so excited that it's spring. The sensations of spring are just so...well, SENSATIONAL to me seeing as I missed out of spring completely last year, so I haven't experienced spring in 2 years. And it's really slow in coming this year, too! It keeps getting cold over and over again, but now it finally seems like spring is here to stay. At first I was so super excited and I'd keep getting disappointed every time it got cold or snowed again, even though I'm used to that happening every spring--this IS Montreal, after all!--of course, this spring means something different to me. But this past week the nice weather has been making me feel anxious and I think I've figured out why. I'm worried about the cancer coming back (as always), and I don't want this wonderful weather to be taken away from me. I'm so excited to finally experience it, and I can't wait for summer so I can finally experience THAT instead of spending half of it in the hospital and half of it being neutropenic--and that makes me more anxious about getting sick again, like...no no, don't let it come back and take all this awesomeness away from me, ya know?

Stupid random memories!

Arrrgh! Sometimes I just have random memories of the hospital and it's just, like, the WORST. Like, just now I had a random memory of being pushed around in a stretcher...not sure what triggered that, it just seemingly popped into my head out of nowhere, and if anything DID trigger it, I've already forgotten what it was. Doesn't help that I'm sort of buzzing on zopiclone right now. Sort of being the key words. I'm not feeling that much of a 'kick' of it at the moment which worries me quite a bit as I'm not that tired and I REALLY need to get some sleep seeing as I work tomorrow and it's already 1:24 AM, ugh....oh well, guess I'll go to bed and hope to doze off, zopiclone can be tricky; sometimes I don't feel sleepy but then my head hits the pillow and next thing I know I'm in weird-wacky dreamland.

Anniversary time! ^_^

Two days ago marked my 1-year-anniversary of being in remission. ^_^ Unfortunately, that anniversary was marked with a bad cold and getting my period, which is really weird, seeing as I only get my period every 3 months now or so thanks to the IUD. I still have the cold but it seems to be going away now, and it's a bit weird seeing as I've gotten sick a few times in the past couple of months. So between that AND the fact that I got a cold and my rather rare period at the same time? Well, let's just say that if I hadn't had a blood test with excellent results just last week, I'd be freaking out right about now! I'm still a bit on the worried side, of course, but everything should be fine.

Btw, if anyone's reading this and is all "ewww gross period talk", well then you can fuck right off, seeing as this is a blog about my health, and if you can't make the obvious connection between fucked-up menstrual cycles and leukemia--while being judgmental about it at the same time, to boot--you're kind of an idiot. 

Anyway. Speaking of last week, I went on a little trip to Toronto, which was so much fun! I went with my husband who had to go for a conference so I was alone a lot of the time, but it was still fun and just so great to get out of town. Toronto's a great city. Every time I go I never get to spend enough time there and never get to see everything I want to see!