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Author: Annie Modesitt

Pain Center, Redux

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Annie Modesitt

I’m absolutely livid. So angry. I just received a registered letter from the pain center I visited last week alerting me that I am “terminated” as a patient. (Not that I wanted to go there again.) It makes me SO angry that they can treat a patient so shabbily, lie about them, then turn around…

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An Arc

Posted on September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 by Annie Modesitt

I can’t believe I haven’t blogged in a month! It’s been QUITE a month.  I thought that by now I’d be writing about my adorable tutoring students, and how every day I could see in their happy, fascinated faces that I’d made a REAL DIFFERENCE in their little reading lives. Unfortunately, Health ran interference on…

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Acclimation

Posted on August 11, 2019 by Annie Modesitt

This year has been a long journey of learning to acclimate myself to a new – everything – it feels like some days. Recently I was in a group where we were asked to describe ourselves using a series of adjectives.  It was a confusing exercise, and at first no one did very well with…

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Missing In Action

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Annie Modesitt

It’s been a very emotional week for me, not least because my doc has had me cut back on my Oxycontin to half of my previous dose, although I also have 5mg Oxycondone I can take for breakthrough pain.  I’ve done this step-down twice already since ending chemo, and I agree that it’s necessary to…

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Testing Myself

Posted on July 15, 2019July 16, 2019 by Annie Modesitt

As my recovery progresses, I find that I am ‘testing myself’ many times each week to quantify how much independence I’ve recovered. A few months ago I was sleeping around 18 hours a day.  I’d sleep 12 hours at night, and take two naps during the day.  I needed all that sleep, but now I’m…

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A Return To Baking

Posted on May 30, 2019May 30, 2019 by Annie Modesitt

Today I’m going to make some cookies.  I’ve entered myself into the Minnesota State Fair under the Decorated Cookie category (this year’s theme: Minnesota Flowers) and I’m raring to go!  

I’m planning on making up a bunch of royal icing using meringue powder (so it will keep, in an airtight container, for up to a month) and I will practice a few different types of flowers and decorating techniques in the two months before I have to turn in my cookies.

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Things Change SO Quickly

Posted on May 19, 2019 by Annie Modesitt

I had big plans to make a chocolate cake today.

It doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but it is.  Getting downstairs isn’t the marathon it was just a month ago, but it’s an effort.  STANDING is harder than anything, and baking is more about standing than anything else.  Silly things like lifting up the mixer to move it over by the electrical outlet, carrying eggs, sifting flour, etc., are very difficult when the back is so painful.

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Chronic Pain Revisited

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Annie Modesitt

After the past 9 months I’d be happy never to see the inside of a hospital again, but part of me is also wondering if a knee replacement is in my future.  I see an orthopedic doc in a few weeks, the same doc I saw 2 years ago who gave me a shot in my knee that helped quite a bit, and I’m curious to find out if this knee pain can be surgically remedied.

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SPRING!

Posted on March 29, 2019 by Annie Modesitt

Today I celebrated the arrival of Spring with a little walk, and I’m insanely proud of myself. I got up and dressed, went downstairs (then went up stairs to use the bathroom, then downstairs again, a marathon!) And then, with the help of a friend of Andy’s who was over this morning, I took my…

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Mourning Ritual

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Annie Modesitt

I miss him like crazy.  I joke with him (or my memory of him) many times a day, and Andy and I share stories, it seems, with every picture frame or cup or old medicine bottle we sort through.  I lack the strength to do much of the sorting, so that’s fallen to Andy, which is fine. 

Anything of Gerry’s that I need to keep I already have within me; his laughter, his sense of fun, his intelligence, his love.

[caption id="attachment_5215" align="alignleft" width="300"] Gerry discoveres Nutella Nirvana[/caption]

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