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Today I had quite a long to-do list and the two most important things on the list were to re-schedule my appointment that I cancelled with my oncologist and the other was to re-schedule my appointment with my neurologist. Now, don't get me wrong, I genuinely like (most of) the doctors that I see on a regular basis. But it drives me a little bit crazy when I have to leave multiple messages to get a call back. I've been seeing my oncologist since January 2015 and I have seen the differences in her office staff between then and now. When I first started seeing Dr. Z she had a medical assistant that I absolutely adored. She made me feel comfortable and made me laugh during the worst time of my life. Whenever I called the office I just went straight to her direct line because I didn't want to talk to anyone else. Alas, I went to my appointment in February and she was gone. For the last two years I have gone to Dr. Z every three months and when I came into the office without seei...

Hello all! I just wanted to post a quick update on my current inactivity. I recently had a second wedding up in Maine so my husband and I were on vacation for nearly two weeks. It was a blast and it was so great to see our families! We originally married May 15, 2017 with just our parents and a few family members so we decided to hold a second ceremony and reception in my husband's home state. The majority of my family lives in the Northeast part of the US as well so it just made sense. Anyways... I plan to get back into the swing of things and become active here again soon. I just have to wait until I've pulled myself out of the post-vacation blues. See you all soon!

A few minutes ago, I downloaded three more weather radar apps onto my iPhone X. Why? Well, I am lucky enough and unlucky enough to life 20 feet from the Sound in the Florida Panhandle. We are in a condominium complex where the bottom floor if all storage units, then my floor, and the top floor with only 14 total units. I love my home and the fact that it is on a dead end next to a bird sanctuary, but hurricane season brings inevitable anxiety that makes me question why I chose to live here. Let me be more specific; I wonder why my husband chose to live here and I went along with it. Anyone who has gone house shopping with a spouse can probably relate to one of the two of you being very particular and picky about what they want in a home. Don’t get me wrong, I get it. You are spending every day in this place for the foreseeable future and it is where you will raise and/or take care of your family. For us our family consists of two cats, two dogs, and of course the two of us so we didn...

When someone uses the phrase "safety drill" many people think of years in middle and high school getting their eardrums shattered by the fire alarm, then standing in 90-degree Florida heat for 45 minutes while teachers counted. Or, for fellow Florida public school graduates they may think of tornado safety drills where we sat hunched over and staring at a wall in the hallway. As kids, even seniors in high school, we never seemed to take these drills seriously – except the tornado drill when there was severe weather looming. I personally have a very real phobia when it comes to tornadoes, I think I watched Twister one too many times in my formative years. But, for Internet users of more recent years, they may think of safety drills referred to as “lockdown drills”. These drills were to keep students (and teachers) safe from any hostile intruder on campus. I was very lucky and only experienced this in a real-life scenario once, as a junior in high school, and the people in t...