Friends, Cookies, The Cat and Good News

Sometimes when one set of my neurowonk symptoms ease, another set becomes more prominent. The carefully crafted accommodations and ways of maneuvering through life don't work for the new set. That's where I'm at right now. I don't think it's the new normal. Just the now-normal -- things are squeezed a bit tighter for now.

I want to celebrate some of the support I'm learning to ask for, the terrific things folks have done or offered to do for me, and the good stuff in general. I've been a solo flyer in life so this is new to me.

• My pal Diane knew I was worse off this week than usual. So, she offered to do my grocery shopping for me on Saturday night after river kayaking (her energy is endless). I accepted. It was hard. But, it was a load off as that's one of the most rugged tasks of the week. She called me twice on her shopping trip -- so for the eggs, do you want white or brown, cage-free and/or organic, what size...LOL.
  
  
• The next day Diane dropped off some awesome gluten-free cookies for me...life is much better with homemade cookies...most excellent!

• I needed to go in to work for an early afternoon meeting on a project that I'll be part of this year. There were logistics issues with driving and the bus. So, I talked this through with a co-worker on the project -- she offered to give me a ride one or both ways. She used to race cars and motorcyles, so it would definitely be faster than the bus.

• Jake's been rather calm since the vet visit. I think he knows I'll be his forever person although he still frequently hollers and tackles my feet if I get close to the front door. In any case, when I work from home and am going between two laptops, he gets jealous. So, he intermittently parks himself on the keyboard to stop me.

• I think he updated my Facebook status to Will be offline for extended period of time. My priorities have been askew -- my cat needs more attention.
  
  And, yes, he's allowed on the dining room table. The plan had been for us to pretend that it's forbudt when my mom visits. So, I acted aghast and half-heartedly hollered at him. Jake looked disdainfully at me, while Mom rolled her eyes and didn't buy any of the act. We had a good laugh trying.

• I've thought of paying someone to do a deep clean on my place once a month. But it so goes against the grain to spend money on that when I'm trying to be frugal for my unknown future. A co-worker offered to come do some cleaning for me. She actually brought it up. Hmm, not sure about that. Dare I ask for bathroom cleaning or just keep it to floors?  :)
  

There aren't very many people in my life anymore. But those who've hung around are bomb.

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Good news this morning -- the biopsy indicated my last thyroid nodule is benign. I'm still sporting a sore yellowish-green neck. So, I'm glad I don't have to do that again. Woot!