File under: "It's a Small World"

Every winter a couple from my home church in Pennsylvania trek down here to Florida in their RV to spend a month. There is another couple, who I vaguely knew, that spends 4 months every winter in Orange City. I got a call from the couple who were in the area on Wednesday and they were going to visit the O.C. couple and invited me to meet them there. I stopped by after my radiation treatment (it's about halfway between my home and the hospital) and we all had a great visit, talking nonstop for about 2 1/2 hours. Dave (of the O.C. couple) told me he has a brother in DeLand. Amazingly, the brother lives 1/2 mile up the main road from where Joe and Linda live! And the wife is a breast cancer survivor. She volunteers taking people to chemo and various doctor appts. We are all going to get together soon. Funny, huh?

My other "small world" experience was on Tuesday, when 2 techs came by to hook up my security system. The house had everything hard-wired when it was built. There are reasons I decided to go to security monitoring, but I won't go into it here. Anyway, through casual chit-chat, I discovered that one guy's brother was one of my techs at my last at&t job! He moved to NJ after our office closed, but we keep in touch. Two "small world" events 2 days in a row! I truly believe there are no coincidences in life.

On to medical stuff... on an earlier post, I mentioned a pesky spot under my arm that was starting to get irritated. It's now an open wound and it hurts! I got a script for a burn cream called Silvadene and it's supposed to work really well. My booster zaps don't hit that area anymore so it should heal quickly. I hope! I am also still tired....typical at the end of rad treatments. At this point, tired is equivalent to laziness. I don't feel like doing much besides reading and watching TV. And I've been lousy at getting back to people, so please don't take it personally!

I'm tired of being tired!! And I've been told it could take up to a year to start feeling normal again. I've never considered myself "normal" by any stretch of the imagination, so how will I know??