More of the Rollercoaster Ride – Cancer Scare Part 2, New House/New Computer Stress, and Trying to Embrace Life Despite

Well, you know how I said my cancer scare was basically over? Well, the joke’s on me, apparently – I went into the gastro this week (among fifty other doc appointments) and I had some odd test results that along with my symptoms are now pointing to a different rare cancer they want to test for. SO they’re not dangerous tests, just expensive and take-a-long-time-because-only-Mayo-Clinic-does-these types. Not the end of the world, but not exactly what I wanted to hear literally a week or two after I’d been told I was in the clear.

Finally on a new computer with the dreaded Windows 10 after the last one buzzed and ground to nearly a halt (that’s probably my last Mac for a while, too.) I am adjusting – slowly – the awkward new keyboard on the admittedly faster and more powerful laptop and the awkward newness of Windows 10 (although both make doing all my everyday business – from writing e-mails or poems to managing files –  slower and more difficult.)

The inspection and appraisal on the new house are done, so we’re getting contractor bids for some minor fix-up work tomorrow. It makes getting into the new house feel more real. I’ve picked up paint samples (getting rid of some awful mustard, peach, and pistachio color schemes) and am already started sorting, throwing out, mailing away and otherwise minimizing possessions in preparation for our first move in 4 years – a record for us, in our 22 years of marriage, by the way. Maybe this time we’ll make it all the way to five years!