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Happy Homemaker Monday

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                                                           You can visit Sandra and join HHM HERE  Hello, my sisters. Thank you so much for your warm replies last week. My sister has another follow-up appointment on Wednesday, and we are hopeful that her platelets have improved enough that she will be able to get the testing she needs to at least be staged. Then we move on from there.  I ate out a couple of times last week (Chic Fil a grilled nuggets, pizza) so I still have my freezer stash of portioned out ingredients to use this week, which is great since I start training.  *** Past week's pondering*** I've been thinking a lot about what I want the rest of my life to look like, how I want to be remembered, and what I need to do to stop wasting time. Obviously, my sister's diagnosis has us all thinking this way, especially ...

Happy Homemaker Monday

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                You can visit Sandra and join HHM HERE  **NOTE: I've been trying to post this for three weeks and just never have the heart to do it.  It has been a minute - but there's been good reasy why I haven't been able to concentrate long enough to formulate a question. This year would be trying on the strongest of people - and we still have a quarter of it to go.  As you know, my anxiety and depression has been monumental this year. I tried several medications that had REALLY bad side effects and I'm finally back on kilter mostly. But it took a lot of hard work, sleepless nights, and dark thoughts in order to get here.  My dad had his heart attack and has been having issues since. He'll be 83 in November and his age is taking its toll. Due to all that is going on (coming) his blood pressure is out of control and nothing is helping. I feel like he's a ticking time bomb. They think they know what he has, so he has tests c...