Tag: MRI

Weekly Wrap Up | 7/23/23

Aloha friends!

It was a fairly chill week as I was still healing from my biopsy but today I finally feel 100% pain free, so that’s awesome. I got a chance to read a few books, a few that I can finally knock off my TBR list! My kids have only 2 more weeks of summer vacation and that’s it. Oh how this summer flew by so fast!

Hope you all had a great week!

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I’ve kind of put The Davenports to the side – I’m halfway through, I’m just not in the mood.

I’m halfway through Sign of the Slayer and I had to put House of Striking Oaths to the side, because once more too much info-dumping in the beginning but I’ll come back to it. And Divine Rivals is on Kindle Unlimited! I don’t have a physical or ebook copy so I downloaded from KU and this is a re-read.

Shows/Movies I Watched:

  • Crazy Rich Asians (Prime Video) – that wedding ALWAYS gets me, it always makes me shed a tear…ugh…such a good movie and can we get the sequel already? It’ been 5 years! I want Astrid’s story!
  • A Walk to Remember (Prime Video) – talk about a blast from the past. I will ALWAYS love this movie. It brings back good memories going to the movies with my friends and also, I remember we were bawling our eyes out at the end of this movie! LOL…😭😆
  • Penelope (Prime Video) – another cute movie

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

Weekly Wrap Up | 7/16/23

Aloha friends!

This week wasn’t fun. I had an MRI biopsy which was not fun, very uncomfortable and it’s painful when the lidocaine fades so I was sleeping weird. I mean there was pain during the biopsy also but I guess it was tolerable. I just hate when they tell you “don’t move” and psychologically it makes me WANT to move. Reverse psychology. I didn’t move but I always feel like doing an MRI is a big test of my mental patience – I can’t move, even when there is a loud beeping noise happening while the images are taken. And I asked for Taylor Swift to play in the headphones lol…so it was like Taylor Swift loud in my ears plus this mentally glaring loud beeping on top of it. UGH….BUT…my results came back benign. YAY! I am very happy I get to relax for another 6 months before another mammogram and MRI. 😒🙏🏼 I’ll take it…

Anyway the week was about taking it easy while I healed and I’m feeling so much better. So I have to continue back to school shopping, but I am 80% done. 💪🏾

Hope you all had a great week!

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I listened to Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries as an audiobook.

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That Summer I Turned Pretty (season 2, episode 1-3): omg…it’s so SAD because of the grief all over these first 3 episodes💔😢, but gawd I am still mad at Belly for hooking up with 2 brothers in the middle of their mom having cancer. I know, I know, she was in love and she’s young and making mistakes…but damn…it sucks. I didn’t love Belly in the book either, this is a love triangle I didn’t love at all. So I’m basically here for the friendship, the memories, Conrad (Jeremiah too lol), and the music. I mean…Taylor Swift? Olivia Rodrigo? One Direction?! Smashing Pumpkins?! Like what?! And “Kissing You”?!!!! I gasped. I played that song so much on my piano after Romeo+Juliet came out (Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes)…that songs always gives me goosebumps. All of it, I love it.

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Weekly Wrap Up | 7/9/23

Aloha friends!

Well it was kind of a chill. My kids had a dental appointment (no cavities! Yay, I’m so surprised lol, especially with how my daughter loves treats) and I had my breast ultrasound and was hoping for a biopsy BUT, the doctor wasn’t 100% sure she caught the nodule on the screen and would rather me do the MRI biopsy. So I’m doing that tomorrow. 😕 I’m just hoping it’s a quick procedure and not too uncomfortable. And hope my results come back with good news.

I’ve been slowly working my way through Painted Devils by. Margaret Owen. I love Vanja and Emeric! Anyway I’ve been noticing I take awhile to finish hardcover books because I can only find time to read at night. Using my ipad to read is much easier to do that, but I have to finish 2 more library books before their due in 2 weeks! I’m almost finished with my August arcs, at least I only have 2!

Hope you all had a great week!

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Weekly Wrap Up | 7/2/23

Aloha friends!

It was a very low-key week and a nice time to catch up on reading, cleaning the house and my kids got some outdoor time using their scooters outside for our mid-morning walks with our dog (who’s so happy the kids are home with him). I can’t believe June is over!

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Weekly Wrap Up | 6/25/23

Aloha friends!

So I think we are finally over our jet lag – but I still feel like it’s hard to wake up early in the morning. Now it’s all about trying to keep my kids entertained (which I got over by Thursday). So workbooks and a schedule it is! There is room for fun since it’s summer of course, but I’m trying to not spend so much (I miss prices in Japan 😩). It is so expensive here. And so expensive to entertain kids…why do they eat so much?! 😅 We did some free things like went to the pool, and will probably do more pool days this week!

I actually can’t believe this is the last week of June because it means my kids only have 5 weeks of summer break left. I have to do back to school shopping! 😩 I have doctor appointments to do. I had a breast MRI when I came back from my trip and have you ever had a MRI? Why is the machine so loud?! I requested to listen to Taylor Swift on the headphones but those headphones are crap because I heard all the loud noises when the MRI did it’s scan. It sounded like I was at a rave…and next to the speakers. I love when they were like ok this scan will last about less than 3 minutes. Do you know how long 3 minutes is when you can’t move and loud sounds are surrounding you?! It was torture…but necessary and they found another nodule near the one they found in January SO…I have another mammogram and ultrasound and an ultrasound biopsy (if the ultrasound detects it) next week. If the ultrasound cannot detect I have to do an MRI guided biopsy – oh JOY! 😒 I have to remind myself I don’t have cancer (yet and I hope never do) and this is all to make sure they catch it quick if I do. Hoping the biopsy goes well.

Anyway…summer is going by fast. I really wish we were going back to Japan in October, I can see why people love going back.

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