Tori’s Writing Hole

The title is actually twofold. Well, first of all, regarding myself - I am *less* afraid than I was. Some careful thinking, the fact that the cyst/mass/whatevah grew so fast, makes me think that it’s an endometrioma and not some horrid cancer. I will call the dr on Wednesday or so to see if I got my blood test results back.

Secondly, Julia’s not afraid of the swings anymore! Yesterday, which was a beautiful day, we went to the park. At first, she was a bit apprehensive of the swing area. It’s set back from the other part of the park (there are two sets of swings on either side of the playground, only one has the toddler swings). She kept running back towards them, then shying away. Finally, Daddy and I sat on the swings nearby and showed her how much fun it could be.

Julia decided to ride with Daddy first, and then she went on a toddler swing all by her lonesome! Yay! So less pressure meant she was more calm, and made it onto the swings on her own terms. She even climbed up and slid down the slide a few times. The strange thing is how proud I was… that she was dirty. Julia’s dirty jeans from sliding into the dustbowl they call a sandbox at the park showed me that she’s getting rid of her fear of… everything. She played hard.

Afterwards, we went to a local farm stand and got some of the last strawberries of the season. Strangely, the announcement board behind the cash register said “Cancel your cell phone and save the honey bees!”. Of course, I had to look it up - and it turns out that there was a hypothesis that the radiation from cell phones was causing our bee shortage this year. It was disproved, and the real culprit is believed to be a fungus… see this article I found.

A thoroughly interesting, and non-stressful day. Today on the other hand… arrgh.

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