Tag: publishing

Books: Saving Beach Mansion is “in production”!!! WOOHOO!

Final Flight is in “final, final, final edit”! Lol! It took me 3 days to WRITE this book, but almost a year to correct the corrections this publisher did to “help me.” They tried to sanitize my medical and military jargon, dialogue and phrasing! Not their forte, so LEAVE IT ALONE! (No foul language or gore, in case you’re wondering.) They even tried to “fix” the dialogue of the special needs girl in the book! GRRRR! She’s special needs: THAT’S HOW SHE TALKS! I told them that dialogue is the author’s way of character building and to LEAVE IT ALONE!!!

Waiting impatiently for the final draft.

Health:

The real reason I blogged this evening was to update on the medical mess. After multiple calls to multiple specialists (radiology interventionists & fibroid specialist, nephrologist), I learned once again that most are “practicing medicine,” and NOT VERY WELL!! The radiology interventionists said, “We don’t do that kind of thing” when I asked about laser or ultrasound pulverization of fibroid cyst. Called my hubby’s nephrologist: nope. Fibroid institute in Dallas told me you can only get fibroid cysts in your uterus. TELL THAT TO MY BODY AND THE MAYO CLINIC THAT ANALYZED THE BIOPSY & THE MRI THAT SAYS OTHERWISE! They texted back a few days later and demanded I see a GYN before they’d see me! WOW! The mass is at the base of my spine/tailbone! Nowhere near any GYN organs! Not wasting my time on that. Whatever GYN issues I may or may not have are irrelevant at this point!

Finally called Texas Oncology, since all of the various specialists said, “Call an oncologist,” despite the fact that IT’S NOT CANCER!!! (Almost wish it was cancer so SOMEBODY WOULD DO SOMETHING!!) They requested records from my neurosurgeon. That’s serious PROGRESS!! When I called the neurosurgeon’s office to ask them to fax those over, she asked if I had an appt w/them yet. I advised her that they couldn’t talk to me till they got the records. Her response made me laugh! “OH FOR THE LOVE OF JESUS!! I’ll fax them right now!” She did.

In the meantime, the nerve pain attacks have escalated again! My butt HURTS ALL THE TIME NOW! (I wonder if that mass is growing!) A few nights later, having heard nothing, I was in the midst of a BADDDD NPA and did my usual whisper scream,”JESUS, HELP ME!!!!” I’d prayed for favor with Texas Oncology for days. (It’s NOT their forte, so getting in is the big deal!)

You know how sometimes you hear things in your head that you wonder if they’re your own craziness or wishful thinking? Well, I heard, “Tomorrow morning, Texas Oncology will call to make an appointment.”

“Lord, was that you, or am I just wishing!”

“My sheep hear MY VOICE and the voice of a stranger they will not listen to.”

I CRIED!!!

If you know me, you know I seldom SHUT UP long enough for God to speak! Being DEAF has changed that. I write notes on my phone rather than talk, since I get REALLY LOUD w/o knowing it. Mikaylah taught me a cool trick I should have known, as a science teacher: put your fingers on your throat when you speak and you can tell if you’re talking or shouting. That worked before I went completely deaf. Now, not so much!

The next morning, at 11:47am, Texas Oncology called to set up an appt w/ a radiation specialist! (Those of you who know me know that I DON’T DO MORNINGS, so that was GOOD TIMING!)

WED, 29TH, 2PM!!

For those of you concerned about the concept of radiation, let me tell you a story:

When Mom had breast cancer for the 4th time back in ’77, after 2 radical mastectomies and another tumor, she opted for radiation at Wilford Hall in San Antonio (retired Navy, remember). She took the motor home to stay the 6 weeks. Since radiation was a new technology, dosages were iffy. She received MASSIVE dosages. Radiation didn’t make her sick, or lose her hair, or …. She had localized burns where they triangulated the beam, and was TIRED, but the RADIATION WORKED, AND SHE LIVED A HEALTHY, CANCER FREE LIFE FOR 33 MORE YEARS!!! Radiation is my treatment of choice!

SO PLEASE PRAY THAT TEXAS ONCOLOGY WILL TAKE ON THIS FIBROID MASS AND PULVERIZE, OBLITERATE, ANNIHILATE IT WITH RADIATION! I pray the curse of the fig tree (Mk 11) on that lump daily. Withered from roots! Join me! (BTW: I pray that over everyone w/cancer, too.)

Not much else significant going on. I’ll probly post again Wed nite or Thurs after Texas Oncology appt.