crystal's little corner

tonight was the night i was supposed to go talk to my doctor about getting a prescription for dilectin to help with my nausea.. sure enough, we got hit with snow and i had to cancel!! oh well.. another couple days at this point won't kill me i'm sure. talked to dad for a bit tonight. they signed nan in to a nursing home today. she'll get moved there on wednesday from the hospital. i'm amazed that it was that fast of a transition. hopefully it will go smoothly. i'm heading up to the homeland on the weekend. i can't wait. on the bright side, one good thing has come out of all of this! a friend who i haven't talked to in years and i have re-connected. a & i could have been sisters in jr. high & high school.. but then you leave to go to school and all of a sudden, you lose touch. i'm thrilled that we're chatting again. she's in nb, but we're going to try and make a plan to meet the next time we're in the same area. :)

so.. where to start? it's been a crappy month to be a member of my family. christmas eve day, we were given mom's diagnosis... ovarian cancer it is. she had her first round of chemo yesterday, and being the trooper that she is, sounds like she's having an ok day. there's another 5 rounds of chemo to go, and a surgery. we'll see what happens next i guess. it's been hard to deal with and i haven't really wanted to talk to anyone about it, so i've been holding it all in. argh. this is the problem with not having any really "close" friends. and then - my grandmother got admitted back to the hospital. this was 2 weeks ago now almost, and i doubt very much that we'll see her come home. if she comes out of the hospital at all, it will be to a nursing home, if they can find her a placement. she's very confused, and having big problems with her blood pressure. so that leaves me.. the 3rd of these lovely ladies. i'm now battling st...

2009 is a thing of the past, and i can't say that i'm sad to see it go. it was a bit of a topsy-turvy year. i'm going to attempt to tackle project 365 this year and take a picture every day. it's a big year for us. alex starts nursery school in september, and macdonald baby #2 is scheduled to arrive mid-summer! here's to hoping that it's a year filled with health & happiness.