Thursday, February 5, 2009

The day, it sucketh

Here is a terrible self-portrait of me in my pink coat, taken in my home studio (garage). I probably should have buttoned up, which makes me looks much less wide. It is a lovely coat, don't you agree? And I know you can't see much of my scarf, but it was VERY expensive. Another blogger (I can't remember who) posted about a fabulous selection of scarves at Wal-Mart for the princely sum of five dollars, so I ran over there last night while Annamarie was rehearsing for the church musical. I got the pink one and a pretty bright green one, and you should dash over there and get some for yourself. Who doesn't like cute fashion accessories for cheap dollars? No one, that's who.



So Dr. Chupacabra tells me that I do in fact have thyroid cancer, but the good news is that "if you have to have cancer, this is the type you want," because apparently no one dies from this. They will remove my thyroid and maybe give me some radioactive iodine and put me on thyroid hormone for the rest of my life. I am not particularly stressed out about any of this, but I think my mom is. I called her just as she was getting ready to go get her hair done and I will feel horribly guilty if the distraction of worrying about me caused her to wreck her car or make rash hairstyle decisions. And Ron has decided that "cancer likes me" because of my previous bouts with skin cancer. At least it's the fairly benign kinds that like me.

When I got home from the doctor I had two messages from Thomas' school informing me that he is in Big Trouble about two separate and unrelated events. He has not ever been in trouble for anything at school before, unless you count talking too much, so I'm hoping that these are isolated events and that he will not get expelled and cause us to forfeit the huge amount of tuition we paid.

So how's your day going?

5 comments:

Diane Duda said...

My goodness...that is quite the suck-y day.
Except for having the good kind of cancer and all.
Good thing you have a pink coat and scarves to brighten it a bit.
I ran to Wal-mart yesterday while Eli had a hockey game. Maybe we were doing it at the same time. :)
Anyway, hope tomorrow is better.
xo
Di

Mrs. Jelly Belly said...

Oh boy - and I thought MY day was bad.

First of all, love the coat. Hate the cancer. I trust you have confidence in your doctor? When will they be taking care of this? You have reminded me that I really need to make an appointment. My thyroid is about the same size as my bowling ball these days.

I think you are in need of some retail therapy. Much more than a scarf (regardless of how cute) at Walmart. Fire up the internet, baby.

Keep us posted.

Tinkerbell said...

What a bummer! Sorry about the cancer but at least its a "good" kind. Love your new furniture! My day also sucks! Have spent 5-6 hrs a day at hospital with Bill. He is to have surgery on a broken bone in this rt foot, right where he has a pressure sore! His day also sucks!
Keep us posted & will be saying prayers for you. (and Thomas too!)

Chrys said...

((((HUGS)))) Oh, Cyndi I'm sorry to hear that you have ANY sort of cancer!!!!! I'm glad that it can be easily taken care of. So what happened with Thomas??? Oh, and also...I ADORE that jacket!!!!!!! So chic! :) :)

Argenta said...

Ah heck Cyndi - I missed this until now. But I know that it takes more than a crappy thyroid to get you down.

February does indeed sucketh.

Here's hoping we can all get together for that little vacation we talked about.