From Beginning to End

I realize that the calendar week begins on Sunday and ends on Saturday.  However, for the purpose of this blog, a week begins on Monday and ends on Sunday.  Which, does rather make sense to me, since my work week begins on Monday.  And, I do feel that both days of the weekend should be in the same week, at the same time.  I just makes more sense to me!  : )

Anyhooo......  As you may recall, I began this week by wearing one shoe to work, while a piece of glass took up temporary residence in my left foot.  To most of  you out there, it will not come as a complete surprise that the last day of my week began as the first day of my week did.  With a piece of glass in my left foot.  Only difference was that I was getting ready to go to church, rather than to go to work.  I also was able to retrieve the piece of glass on my own, without the aid of the doctor.  However, tho this piece of glass was smaller than the previous piece of glass, it caused my foot to bleed and bleed and bleed. 

As I sat in my chair in the living room, dripping blood out of my foot and onto the floor, Jordan leisurely wandered around the house, looking for band aids and a wash cloth.  He finally brought me a roll of paper towels and my purse..... where I knew I had a band aid.  Good grief.  The really bad part of this story, is that we swept/vacuumed/swiffered all of the downstairs floors at least twice yesterday.  This piece of glass found my foot in the living room.  Maybe we did too much sweeping?  Maybe the piece of glass hopped a ride from the kitchen (or where ever) to the living room on the broom of the swiffer or an animal paw.  I don't know.  All I know is that I'm beginning to believe that our house is a super cell of small glass pieces.  And that those glass pieces have it out for my left foot!  It's not a good feeling to wonder if pieces of glass are stalking you!  : )

Speaking of the left side of my body  (I got there from my left foot!  hehee), I had an oncologist appointment the other day.  It's a different oncologist for me.  I, shame on me, haven't been to an oncologist since I moved back to Keokuk. I asked the doc I work for a while back to recommend someone for me to go to and he did.  I love this oncologist!  He's very friendly and explains things very well.  Not only that, he had actually read all of the medical records that I'd had sent to him.  He actually knew exactly what I'd been through and the treatments I'd had.  Amazing!  I was quite impressed, as my records, just the ones that were sent to him, are enough to fill the volume of a mid to large sized novel.  At least.

The oncologist did bring up a few things that my previous oncologist had never talked to me about, mainly about family relationships and cancer.  One of the things that he said tho, that struck me as an observation that no one else, including myself, had made, was that most of my issues are on the Left side of my body.  My breast cancer was on the left side.  I had Achilles tendon repair surgery on my left tendon.  It was the left side of my thyroid that had the suspicious nodules in it that caused me to have the thyroid surgery.  My left ovary, when removed during my hysterectomy, had cysts in it. My uterus was adhered to my ureter on the left side, which caused more trauma on the left side than the right during the hysterectomy.  The only thing that truly didn't occur, or have the worst part, on the left side, was when I had my gall bladder removed.  That involved my right side. 

Not that it really matters what side of my body these things occur, I don't think anyway.  But it impressed and amazed me that this doctor, during our first visit, made that observation.  And ya know it's gonna make me think about the left side of my body!  And... the fact that I've had 2 pieces of glass, on 2 separate days, in my LEFT foot!  Coincidence?  I think not!  : )

So, tomorrow my week starts all over again.  It most certainly IS going to be a better week.  I believe.  No left sided incidents.  No glass super cells. Just a good, quiet, calm happy week!   I BELIEVE!!!!!!