It’s true. It was all a false alarm. But I’ve come out of the experience healthier and wiser. And a lot more humble than I went in! The horror-show interlude also gave me pause to reconsider my aims, goals and commitments. Not stepping out; just stepping back…
I last posted in this space on September 1, 2025. The next day I was in the hospital, undergoing the ‘Full Monty’ of blood and urine tests, a comprehensive array of scans, and the ultimate barrage of peeks, pokes and palpitations the Medical Fraternity is err to.
You’ve got Cancer…
John Wayne called it The Big C. He eventually succumbed to it. Millions of folks follow his terrifying example every year. I will not be one of them. At least, not THIS year.
But I thought I was headed down that same chute when the hospital’s chief oncologist swept into my room, white coat flapping in the breeze generated by his own passage and announced, “You’ve got … cancer!”
He was wrong!
Thank goodness…
After a little over 11 weeks of medical ‘attention’, I have been diagnosed officially as suffering from an infection my system would normally shrug off. Except that I developed a serious case 0f anemia and a thyroid deficiency over this past summer. Together, they weakened my immune system enough to let the common-and-garden variety bug take hold that eventually laid me out flat.
I now take two more pills a day than I used to. But I feel much better than I did three months ago, for sure! And I’ve received the green light to get back on the old Maggie J’s horse and start blogging again.
Not without some adjustments…
There will be some changes in protocol, however. In consultation with my doctor, I’ve decided to change my posting schedule reflecting the following parameters:
- Aim for two new posts a day, consistently.
- Go for three if something additional that’s time-sensitive rears its head.
- Go for four only in the case of some absolutely earth-shaking occurrence.
- Some posts will be – shall we say? – ‘skeletal’.
The name of the game is TRIAGE. Which I thought was eerily appropriate coming from a doctor. Nevertheless…
Maggie J’s FFB 2.0
I will officially inaugurate ‘Maggie J’s FFB 2.0’ tomorrow morning at the usual time – 5:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Hope to see you there!
~ Maggie J.