Just Catching Up

I'm home alone right now and the house is very quiet and peaceful. I always enjoy the quiet because it helps me to think and focus. My husband has gone out for the evening to visit a friend of his. I'm glad. He really needs to get out of this house more. I think he's having a little depression about finding a job. Of course there are jobs out there he could take, but as a truck driver he (and I) prefer he find something local, not an over the road type of job. I think he worries too about going back to a job driving in Nashville traffic. After much discussion about his previous panic attacks, he feels that they were partly caused by dangerous drivers in Nashville traffic. I think he has seen one too many accidents and is deathly afraid of the possibility he could kill someone (or even himself) in that big dump truck. I have faith that he will work it out and the right position will come his way when he least expects it.
I'm enjoying my work with TN Oncology and learning something new every day! The patients are responding to me more and more....I have a few that have specifically asked for me this week when they came in for their treatment. I like that! It makes me feel good to have that connection with them. We've been asked a lot of questions about the H1N1 virus lately and the vaccine due to come out in October. From everything I have heard and read, it seems to present itself as a simple sinus infection and most people feel better the very next day. It's the day after that when they start to become really ill. So, just a word of advice...if you feel like you have, or are getting a sinus infection, go to your doctor. Let him prescribe antibiotics, but ask him to test you for the H1N1 virus as well. It has been surmised that those of us who are older (I mean over 40) are actually less susceptible to it because we may have been exposed to it in the past and just didn't know it at the time. Anyway, we will have the vaccine sometime in October. Our number one priority is to first vaccinate those receiving chemotherapy because of their compromised immune systems. After that, it will be at the doctor's discretion. I hope you all stay healthy!
I've been encouraged by my husband to pick up a hobby. I wasn't sure what type of hobby I wanted to pursue until we went to Hobby Lobby one weekend. As I was walking through the art supplies I began to remember how much I used to love to draw. So, I bought a sketch pad and some pencils and have taken up drawing once again! I haven't drawn since my kids were very young, but I had this picture in my mind that I just really HAD to put on paper. She is an old woman who haunts my dreams......in my dreams I call her "grandmother", but she is not really my grandmother. Anyway, I have done a rough sketch of her and intend to put some finishing features on her soon. I can't wait to see the finished product......if I can just get the eyes and cheekbones right.............