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[cancer] And away we go, to the infusion center again

Off to the infusion center this morning with Lisa Costello and Marta Murvosh. tillyjane (a/k/a my Mom) has a cold, so she will be avoiding me today, while Dad and (step)Mom are out of town. Likewise the_child and her mother are going to the coast this afernoon. It will be an unusually quiet infusion weekend for me, in other words.

Not that I’ll know the difference.

I had a deeply emotional reaction to yesterday’s port access and blood test. This was akin to sub drop, in a weird way. (Weird given that I’m not a sub, I mean.) I eventually got over myself, but continue to operate with a fine patina of melancholy.

On the plus side, amberite dropped by briefly last night. H— should be visiting tomorrow. I might also see Team E— this weekend, and maybe even scarlettina as she passes through town.

On an amusing non-cancer note, yesterday at the Day Jobbe I was filling out a self-assessment as part of the annual review process. There’s a required spell check and legal scan before one can submit the form. The spell check rejected my employer’s name as a misspelled word, and the legal scan was quite concerned that I’d used the word “white” because it might denote inappropriate racial or personally descriptive information, which I should consider rephrasing or eliminating. The word appeared in the noun phrase “white paper”.

I, of course, took screen shots and mailed them out to my working group.

Ah, software.

Tags: Cancer, Child, Family, friends, Funny, health, Personal, radiantlisa, work

Posted: 6:57 am Fri November 09 2012 |

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