Ten

five

six

eight

Seven’s out there too, somewhere. So’s nine. I just can’t be arsed to find them.

A lot has happened in ten years. They no longer give heparin to cardiac patients. Synthetic heparinoids are all the rage now. No allergic reactions to those. I was one of the first patients to get a heparinoid. That was after I’d already reacted to the heparin though. Putting me on the then experimental drug probably saved my life. Weird to think that had this happened today, I’d have probably been out of the hospital in ten days rather than four weeks, and I wouldn’t be sporting this funky scar across my belly.

Ten years. That’s twenty-percent of my life. In ten years a person can graduate from vet school, find a job, get a divorce, fall in love, buy a house, accumulate five cats and lose one of them. You can find your sanity and lose it again so many times that you get to the point that you wake up in the morning not knowing if you’re sane or nuts.

Ten. After this year I’ll have to take off my shoes to keep count.

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11 Comments

  1. I can hardly wait for the next ten… sort of.

    I’m not sure about all of this aging stuff, actually. All of those (not so) little aches and pains aren’t any fun at all.

    Still, I hope to be reading your DD entries until I have to have someone read them TO me while I suck on my morphine lollypop. All those "little" aches and pains, don’t ya know.

  2. I’m very glad to have been one of the people to get to know you a little during part of those ten years. Like others, I’m looking forward to reading your entries for many more years to come. Congrats!

  3. "Did the ‘other Boleyn girl’ have polydactyly too?"

    ROFL!

    Good to see you, Elfie. I was just telling the Troll last night that maybe I should check on you.

    No big deal on the Glidden thing. I’m getting used to the kitchen. Now we’ve started moving things back in, it really doesn’t look that bad. There’s a big hutch that covers most of one wall that we haven’t moved back in yet. We ordered some blinds, and we’re going to wait till we put those in before we move the hutch back in. (It would be in the way while we try to put up the blinds.)

    Can’t wait till our PA/NJ vacation!

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