Happy Pre-Birthday!

PW called me last night to wish me a Happy Birthday. I think it’s funny because after over 10 years, she still gets my birthday mixed up with my mom’s. Mine isn’t until Sunday. Anyway, it made me laugh and gave me a chance to gossip.

Apparently, her Upper GI came back showing nothing wrong — no acid reflux, etc. Still she’s having chest pains and pains on her left side. Plus, the doctor found a small lump in her left breast which he thinks is probably a cyst but he’s sending her in for a mamo and a chest x-ray today and a blood test for diabetes at her request within the next week or so. The chest x-ray is too look at her heart. She is extremely freaked out and I tried to be a good friend and tell her everything’s going to be fine, but of course, she has every right to be concerned.

However, she has a great doctor. I should know; he was mine and I recommended him to her. You hear so many stories about doctors who write off the possiblity of breast cancer in young women PW’s age and then when the cancer is found, it’s too late. A sign of a good doctor is when he takes it serious enough to double check everything. Plus, he’s very patient and will generally humor you if you think you may have some horrible disease. Can’t tell you how many blood tests and EKGs and x-rays he did on my request. :crazy:

She also told me that Meg is apparently ill. She has cellulitus or something which is some sort of skin infection and then had allergic reactions to the antibiotics, which I thought was strange because it seems to me that she had an allergic reaction to antibiotics a few years ago which should have alerted her that they were bad things. I should think about sending a card, I guess.

She also said that Meg apparently now has her own cases and is working as a lawyer and that Peter is no longer the law librarian at his firm but is doing something else but still not doing lawyer-y stuff. I really wonder how he feels about that. He’s so competitive and Meg passed the bar the first time and he didn’t until the third time and she is working as a lawyer and he isn’t. Plus, from what I hear, she is making way more money than he is. I just can’t imagine that sits well with him because he always struck me as having a little of that man-is-the-bread-winner-attitude. *shrug*

PW also said that Peter’s been doing lots with her and that he volunteered to help her move a bed that she bought from Meg’s parents who are apparently selling their bed and breakfast or converting it to condos or something. I must admit I was surprised that he offered to help, but there are definitely changes going on in the dynamics of that group.

It’s just so strange that after all these years, the only one who really keeps in contact with me and that I keep in contact with is PW even after those big blow-outs and all those mean things said. She told me the other day that even in the years that we didn’t speak at all, she always thought of me as a friend. And the truth is that as hurt as I was, I would still have shown up if she needed someone…but I guess I kind of proved that, didn’t I?

Anyway, English will be back in the States a week from Friday to spend Easter with PW and she is planning on going to see him in June. She’s so cute about the whole thing. She really seems to want me to like him. Possibly this is because I didn’t like Manchild when they started dating and told her that it wouldn’t work out, which was rather prophetic, I guess. I’ve been wrong before. Anyway, I just want her to be happy and if he makes her happy and has her best interests at heart, then I’m happy for her.

It’s interesting that after Manchild left her, she told me that she’d decided she didn’t think she wanted to have kids anymore but now that English is in the picture, she’s afraid if she has cancer, chemo will ruin her chances of having a kid. I predict she’ll be moving to England in a year. :satisfied:

tags: birthday, breast cancer

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