Plus One

Okay, on to more cheerful topics (even though it is always so much easier for me to self-flagellate than self-congratulate) -- according to yesterday's WW weigh-in, I gained only 1 pound between December 16th and January 6th. This covers a span of 2 family Xmas dinners, my birthday, 3 multi-day visits to both sets of moms (truly deadly), multiple meals out with friends, and unlimited access to my kitchen while on staycation (not to mention vast volumes of emotional upheaval). So although I did not actually lose any weight, the damage could have been much worse, it's true.

The Lexapro seems to be kicking in (hallelujah!) since I seem to be nearing the far shore (my engineer suggested I look at the depression which swamped me over the holidays as a wave which I should ride out until it washed me up on the opposite shore -- he put it better than that, but I think you get the idea). I still get freaked out, but instead of my general mood being "the glass is half empty & about to shatter into dozens of shards (while I am barefoot) because it's a crappy glass", it's more like "the glass is half empty and I may -- or may not -- accidentally knock it off the table, but at least I'm wearing my slippers" which is an improvement.

And I bit the bullet and finally picked up my Rx of tamoxifen yesterday night. Now that the doctors have untangled my medication conflicts, I went back to the pharmacy near my office where I had dropped off the Rx in early December, and they released the pills to me. While this has been quite a long delay (over a month since I received the scrip from my oncologist), trying to transfer a Rx from one location to another -- especially when there is a hold on the meds -- is not a fun task with the pharmacy clerks and drug benefit company (which is separate from the medical insurance company -- the health insurer has been GREAT; the drug folks, not so much). Well okay, and yeah, my slip IS showing, Dr. Freud.

At least the prescription is very reasonably priced: $5 for one month's dosage.

Also survived my first day back at work yesterday (woohoo! a job to return to: always a treat these days) and shocked two of my co-workers senseless by showing up on time today (and almost on time yesterday) AND it was before my boss and three other folks. Okay granted, two of them were delayed by train trouble, but still! (heh) One of them jokingly grumbled that he will not be getting morning coffee hand-delivered by me any more, since 9am is too early for him to start his second cup of the day.

So far, so good on that particular new year's resolution, but my staying up this late is NOT helpful (that alarm tomorrow morning is going to suck big time), so off I go to bed, leaving you all with a photo from last month's holiday display in the Time Warner Center atrium. The lights cycle through color changes, but this one shot was nifty because each star had multiple colors, instead of all 14 of them being the same solid shade (e.g., all stars were all red, etc.)