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March 02, 2005
The Real World Beckons
After five (and a half) days off related to snow, work beckoned today. Getting up in and of itself was no easy task and getting my behind into work was even more difficult. Our students are kind of like dogs that need to be trained, when they have more than two days out of training, it takes about three weeks to get them back to their trained state. Needless to say, the students were in rare form today. Not to be a party-pooper, but the two complete days off this week were not called for; we could have easily had an early dismissal before the snow came in on Monday and a late start yesterday so that the kids weren't out in rush hour.
I got home from work and talked to my mom some. She was really tired and kind of napping. She found out that her last day of chemo is going to be on my birthday, so we'll probably have a really big birthday/end of chemo celebration a few days after that, when she gets her energy back. She's doing a study and is part of the experimental group, so her treatment is a little bit longer than usual. It was a very hard decision for us to make, but she really feels that some women need to be willing to be in an experiment so that other women can have the best treatment possible. She also knows that the treatment she would have gotten in the first place had to be experimental at some point, and if no women were willing to try then she would not be able to have as good of treatment available to her now. I took a short nap after our talk. When the alarm went off, all I could think was "oh, fudgsicles!!" (that is exactly what I said when it went off).
I got dressed for the extremely windy weather. It was cold, but it would have been tolerable without the wind. The temperature was in the mid-30s, but with the wind it felt like it was in the single digits. When it gusted I could barely stay upright, much less move. There was no reason to even wear my watch because all it would do is discourage me since the time was not going to be what it normally would because of the wind. My legs felt very fresh, I don't know if it was because of the very easy run yesterday or if it was because I'm getting used to higher mileage. Anyhow, I felt a little bit guilty about yesterday being shorter than usual, so I ran 8 miles instead of my usual 7 today. Afterwards, I went on the gym and rode the bike for 40 minutes.
I did make homemade mac and cheese for my mom yesterday. On Monday I made whole wheat cinnamon swirl bread. When I have time I like to cook, but that is only really on weekends and snow days. Mom had some and said it was really good, but I think that is because she didn't have to cook it at all :)
Posted by Blondie at March 2, 2005 07:25 PM
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I know what you mean about the wind today. It was awful! Soooooooooooo cold! I get the chills just thinking about it!
Hope your training continues to go well and your mom is hanging in there too!
Posted by: Beth at March 2, 2005 07:44 PM
It's great that your mom has an end in sight for the chemo. I hope it continues to go well and that she feels much better soon.
Thanks for the good wishes for Europe! Have a great week :)
Posted by: Barb at March 3, 2005 11:26 AM