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Perpetual Ruminations
#1104372 added December 24, 2025 at 7:09pm
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Merry Christmas Eve
| My wife and I had a morning filled with a lot of information. Questions were answered, and many options to improve my quality of life were discussed. Within a week or so, I should be getting some different medications that sound promising. It amazes me how much more the VA is doing compared to my oncologist and the cancer center I've been treated at. Although very helpful, the meeting was lengthy, involving a social service provider, the doctor's nurse, and finally the doctor herself. It took us into early afternoon, and with so much information, I'm looking forward to receiving a lot of it in the mail in the upcoming week. Once we finished the online meetings, we had some leftovers for lunch and then headed once again to Glendalough State Park to do a short hike and to let the dogs run and frolic. It was another nice day, above freezing and just a mild breeze. Even so, the cold still gets to me, but hopefully that sensitivity to cold will soon be a thing of the past. Tonight we will have our Christmas dinner, nothing fancy, but we did splurge on a duck as the main course, something that had vanished from the store shelves with the onslaught of Covid and just recently returned to the meat cooler. Tonight we will open one gift from each other, the rest tomorrow morning after we get up and get some coffee going. After, I'll spend the day at home, but my wife will go to her relatives for a family dinner. I was thinking about going as well, but there are going to be a lot of people there, many of them with kids, and I don't want to risk contracting anything from them with my weakened immune system. Also, the relative hosting the dinner has quite a few cats. I love cats, but I'm allergic to them, and again, with a weakened immune system, it's best to stay away. And yet another reason to stay home, they only have one bathroom, and as of yet, I have not fully recovered from the digestive issues of chemo and need to have access to a bathroom at all times, as I never know when or how bad nature will call. I don't feel bad about missing. I'm going to enjoy some quiet time with our dogs and with anyone else who logs in here. Being an introvert, busy family gatherings tend to be trying, and I often find or manufacture good reasons to exit, stage left. A final thought I want to share is this: We really do need to stop killing moles for their mole-asses! |
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About The Author
My writing doesn't follow any set genre, it's interdependent of my mood and all that's taking place in life. I'm still finding myself, what I write constitutes the markers along the path of that journey. With time, many things will manifest in my work and perhaps I will pursue one or two genres. For now, it's not, "What type of writing is my passion?"
"Writing is my passion."
