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Tianna Stein 
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TIANNA 1, CANCER 0
Strength Does Not Come From Physical Capacity.
It Comes From Indomitable Will.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease November 17th, 2004.
Remission Achieved!!
Journal
Wednesday, January 3, 2007 10:24 AM CST Hi ho hi ho to all my friends and enemies out there in the world! I just wanted to take a few minutes to say I am still alive and kicking. As if you thought any different!!
Things have been going here. I was going to say great or good going but then just decided to leave it at things are going because sometimes they are good, sometimes they are great and sometimes things just plain suck.
Eamon and I are still living in the same place in Queens. I know we move all time so I just figured I would fill you in on that. But, speaking of moving, we are leaving NY in a year. My college has an exchange program with a college in Melbourne, Australia so me and the guy are hightailing it out of here for many reasons. One, Australia is just way more awesome than NYC. Two, we need to leave NYC before one of us (well, just me) kills someone. So many people in NYC are just plain rude and insensitive and I have had enough. The other day, I was getting off the subway and so were a ton of other people and this guy was standing in the middle of doors. I said, "excuse me", and he just looked me dead in the face and didnt move. So I just continued walking right into him pushing him backwards off the subway. I was soooo pissed. I realize now that was a mistake because clearly he was not okay in the head and he could have stabbed me in the back or something. But like I said above, I am still alive and kicking so no drama occured but it very well could have. Moving on, the 3rd reason we need to move out of NYC is that it is filthy and it seems that no one cares. Standing on the street, people will just throw their trash on the ground when there is a bin 5 feet away. I dont get it. When did people stop caring about the place they live in? Does it not occur to them that that little piece of paper is one of millions clogging this city's streets and subways? Everyday I come home from work, there is trash in the front of my house. Can people not throw it in the bins that are sitting right there? Why is it in my yard? And the 4th reason we have to leave is that I am sick of cold weather. Granted, Melbourne isnt hot all year round but it doesnt get all that cold there either. I hate cold, it makes me tense.
Okay, so school is going pretty well. This semester I took Chemistry and Biology. I ended having to drop my Chemistry lecture (not the lab) because the teacher is an a-hole. I am not saying that from a whiney I hate my teacher bratty crybaby perspective, he seriously is an ass and I am only one of about 40 people who dropped the class. But the good news is I got a A in the lab section of the class. I am going okay in Biology. This semester I will get a C - my very first C in college. Its very depressing but at the same time its good because the class was not easy. I do blame it all on myself. I didnt apply myself as well as I could have. Next semester I plan on getting an A in Bio 2 and I know I will have to study my brains out but I will get it cause I want it bad enough.
Eamon and I spent the last week in San Diego. We totally, absolutely loved it. We have decided that IF we come back from Australia, that we will be coming back to San Diego NOT New York unless by some small slim chance I actually miss NYC so much that I forget how much it drives me insane. I dont really see that happening but I guess crazier things have happened. Here is a cool pic of us in San Diego for New Years Eve:
Arent we cute? My hair is finally long enough now that I am actually quite content with it. I do need it to get much much longer but at least it looks nice and not all boyish.
How is my health you ask? Well maybe you didnt, but I figured you wanted to know since you logged on to my site. So, my health is okay. I am still struggling with my weight which will probably be a lifetime struggle and fully my fault. I just eat too damn much. I love food and it loves me back. I am getting much better though. Eamon and I are eating far healthier than we did before and doing our best to eat less and ride our bikes more.
As for the Hodge, I am still in remission. I do have lingering side affects such as slight breathing issues and athritis in my chest bone which causes me some discomfort. I also have terrible chemo brain at times. Sometimes it drives me crazy. What it does is cause complete blankness when trying to think of things. I could be in the middle of an everday conversation with someone and then all of a sudden, my mind goes completely blank and I lose all my thoughts and where I am going in the conversation. It can be funny except not so much when I am talking to my boss or other superiors at work. It also sucks when I am at school. Its hard to explain how completely blank my mind will get. Supposedly, researchers are now taking chemo brain seriously and are looking into it and ways they can try to fix it and help people with their memories and thoughts. It will be interesting to see what comes of the research, if anything at all.
Nothing much else interesting going on. If I can think of anything else, I will write more. I hope everyone is doing well and is in good health. Here's to a wonderful 2007 and to telling 2006 not to let the door hit it in the ass on the way out.
Love to all.
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Links: www.redcross.org/donate/give Please donate your blood!!! Your body will make more!!!
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www.marrow.org Become a Bone Marrow Donor
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