Cancer Selfies

Back from Northern Ontario, still working

This was written on September 4th, 2022

At home after work, biopsy of my appendix had been scheduled, but had not happened. Family and a few close friends know, but no one else.

I told my parents today

This was written on September 4th, 2022

With my best gal, Bessie. Annie instinctively overcame her weird anxiety for me when I arrived, which was wonderful, but Bessie has always been this sort of delight for me ❤️

There are a lot of tests

This was written on September 4th, 2022

A lot of new tests had been scheduled, I knew I was driving five hours to Elliott Lake the next day and was dreading it. I'd been planning this visit for months (it got changed up a bit because I got Covid-19, and then again the day before, because I no longer had the energy for big trips and now needed to be nearer an emergency room I didn't think Chapleau could provide)

I learned I had cancer today

This was written on September 4th, 2022

Big-Head-Tiny-Body comforts me after the worst phone call I've ever recieved

Bank holiday 2022

Guess who forgot they couldn't taste food and bought pizza to celebrate the long weekend?

First day at work post-covid

This was written on September 4th, 2022

First day back after Covid-19, unaware of diagnoses yet

I passed my CofQ exam

This week refuses to quit with the ups and downs

From the comments

James Petrosky: (that means I passed my exam and am a licenced electrician as of today)

(also holy shit it wasn't even close, 89/100 with a pass mark of 70, that's at the extreme high end of what I was expecting)

Robert: James Petrosky have you ever considered that you’re good at certain things?
James Petrosky: Robert Ocasionally, I was reasonably sure I had passed but I also didn't sleep for the three or four nights prior and timed my meals wrong day of so I was loopy from low blood sugar by the end of it, so it wasn't super easy to judge the outcome

Covid-19 finally got me

That's a positive.

Hunger

I reflected on this on September 8, 2023

Super glad my body has decided that hunger is boring and unhelpful and instead goes all in on confusion and irritability

What's good for the goose is good for the forklift

Gang, today I achieved a major life goal I didn't know I had until moments before achieving it: I honked at geese with a fork lift and had them honk back as they slowly waddled out of my way.