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February 25, 2005
well it's only a firefly to the light of the sun
One day she started getting headaches. They were bad enough that they lead her to the doctor. One Monday she got an MRI, thursday a CAT scan. They had planned on meeting with the neurologist the following week to plan a course of treatment.
Friday she was on her way to San Fran for a debate tournament when she got a call telling her that she needed to have emergency brain surgery. She has a cyst in her brain that was then preventing fluid from draining, hence the headaches.
As luck would have it, her sister lives in San Fran. She just had had a baby, so their mom was out there. Her boyfriend flew out right away. Saturday they did the operation. The next weekend she was on a flight home to Chicago.
Crazy what modern medicine can to. Also what a testament youth and good health is. They chould do a minimly invasive removal because she was young and healthy. and a week later she was out of the hospital and a couple days later on a plane.
She's been in my thoughts since this all happened (two weeks ago), and i just wanted to share the story, esp since it came out okay. She's still recovering and in a lot of pain. So here's a virtual get well wish for julie.
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Posted by christina at 10:38 AM | Comments (0)
February 23, 2005
reasons for living never come cheap
well....here i am. finally with a few minutes to write. For the past couple of weeks, all of my free moments were spent trying to figure out how to do a web form for this conference that i am helping organize. it is a lot more complicated than i thought...well, actually, we just have such a low level knowledge of anything past basic html that it is a steep learning curve.
or i was grading...lots and lots of grading took place last week. crazy amount of grading.
the other day i was running in my neighborhood and came across a candian goose just standing on the street cornor. it was quite a strange site. it is a testament to how mild our winter has been up here. so mild.
my rock star crush came back for a visit (after being gone for 1.5 years to italy and stuff). we had dinner last night. he is such a restless soul, but also one of the most kind and gentle people...at least to me. he makes me laugh so much. we spent a sizable chunk of the spring of my 1 year here chatting and laughing. he is random in the ways i love...the just long enough hair...the guitar...the shirts from the 70s.... we had a great dinner. he's off to either equador or mexico next to teach math or physics or something.
his stories stirred my restless soul. as much as i love the domesticness that is a part of my life right now, i am quite envious of the travelling mark has done. i'm not quite sure where i thought i would be at this point in my life, but i doubt i expected to be thinking about the things i'm thinking about (timelines for the kiddies) and making the plans i am. the problem with being a chick and wanting kids is that you have the most luck when you do it young. so it goes. i do want to do all that, but i do wonder what my life would be like if i just picked up and went to italy.
though i'm sure if i did that i would yearn for the stability of a home and dudette.
chris came to meet dudette this past weekend. it was quite amusing, fun, and relaxing. we shopped a little; we laid around a little; we saw a great production of the glass meneragerie. (i heart half price tickets.) it as good, unlike was most people (except chis and i) expected, which was it would be wierd. of course, that would be true if chris was really an ex-boyfriend, and though he does fall into that catagory, he is way way way more in the friend catagory. the relationship was just a blimp in an otherwise good friendship.
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