Reflections 2/25/2020: Life lately has felt like I’m stuck in a never-ending card game of Old Maid. Object of the game is to get rid of all your pairs without landing the Old Maid card in your required draws from your opponents’ hands. Unfortunately my game appears to have more than one Old Maid card circulating in the turns. Yesterday’s positive card draws were a less swollen body, water weight loss, and softer skin peeling from my plastic, wrinkled face! Good pairs! I’ll take it! BUT, I also drew a downer… another trip to the hospital for an ultrasound on a lump in my neck to reveal a blood clot hiding out with pernicious reality. Damn! Drew the Old Maid card again! Sounds scary, but my doc prescribed a blood thinner and predicts it with take care of itself in a week… so, compliant patient that I have become, I will simply add this medication to my increasingly complicated pill regimen! (Thank God for Ed’s pharmaceutical expertise!) Sooo God, I am relieved of a number of very uncomfortable symptoms… and for that I THANK YOU for the reprieve! This new one, however is a little scary, so help me navigate it with trust that You are in control. I’d also like to exit the Old Maid card game so I can take an unhindered shot at facing chemo without all these additional complications! I have a week to get this body cooperating, so let’s do this! Old Maid begone!!!