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Aug. 24th, 2024 06:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. My Aunt Gail died yesterday.
She was complaining of her stomach hurting the last time I saw her in late June, and now she's dead of ovarian cancer. I feel so terrible for Uncle David, who is still recovering from a stroke, and her son Scott, who lost his wife just a few years ago. The rapidity with which she declined has shaken everyone.
There's no definitive blood test for ovarian cancer; your results on the blood test can be fine, and you can still have it, but I had the blood work done, and it was fine. I also had genetic testing done and am waiting on the results of that. I'm probably going to also have an ultrasound done just to be sure. The reason the mortality rate for ovarian cancer is so poor is that it is often asymptomatic until it's too late. To be clear, I do not think I have ovarian cancer, but it is something I am going to be periodically screened for now that it's part of my family history.
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Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Look, I get it. Once upon a time, the idea of going into a bookstore and picking up a volume off the shelf and encountering deliberately, egregiously gross descriptions of sex and women's bodies and the writer's own body and bodily functions in general must have seemed truly revolutionary and novel. Now the sort of writing in Miller's magnus opus just seems utterly juvenile, like a teenage boy trying out all the pee pee and poo poo words he's amassed over the course of his adolescence. I'm not shocked, Henry Miller, nor do I think you are, as Ken Shapiro states in the intro to this volume, the GOAT. I think you are funny at times and crass at all times and boring a lot of the time.
Also bonus racism I'd forgotten about from my first read 20+ years ago.
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How to Keep House While Drowning by K.C. Davis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a book about self-care and letting go of shame around cleaning and other tasks. It contains a lot of hacks for people who struggle with housework, meal planning, and hygiene tasks because of depression or executive function issues.
View all my reviews
She was complaining of her stomach hurting the last time I saw her in late June, and now she's dead of ovarian cancer. I feel so terrible for Uncle David, who is still recovering from a stroke, and her son Scott, who lost his wife just a few years ago. The rapidity with which she declined has shaken everyone.
There's no definitive blood test for ovarian cancer; your results on the blood test can be fine, and you can still have it, but I had the blood work done, and it was fine. I also had genetic testing done and am waiting on the results of that. I'm probably going to also have an ultrasound done just to be sure. The reason the mortality rate for ovarian cancer is so poor is that it is often asymptomatic until it's too late. To be clear, I do not think I have ovarian cancer, but it is something I am going to be periodically screened for now that it's part of my family history.
2.
Tropic of Cancer by Henry MillerMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Look, I get it. Once upon a time, the idea of going into a bookstore and picking up a volume off the shelf and encountering deliberately, egregiously gross descriptions of sex and women's bodies and the writer's own body and bodily functions in general must have seemed truly revolutionary and novel. Now the sort of writing in Miller's magnus opus just seems utterly juvenile, like a teenage boy trying out all the pee pee and poo poo words he's amassed over the course of his adolescence. I'm not shocked, Henry Miller, nor do I think you are, as Ken Shapiro states in the intro to this volume, the GOAT. I think you are funny at times and crass at all times and boring a lot of the time.
Also bonus racism I'd forgotten about from my first read 20+ years ago.
View all my reviews
3.
How to Keep House While Drowning by K.C. DavisMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a book about self-care and letting go of shame around cleaning and other tasks. It contains a lot of hacks for people who struggle with housework, meal planning, and hygiene tasks because of depression or executive function issues.
View all my reviews
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Date: 2024-08-24 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-08-25 02:06 pm (UTC)It was really upsetting how quickly everything happened.
*hugs*