Dyslexia

I have a new student that is dyslexic.  His class just started reading the book Night, by Eli Weisel.  It's a fast attic book.  He has an abbreviated, zeroed copy instead of the book so he can underline and if it's lost he won't be penalized.  He's never asked to read aloud so his boys won't tease him and has just been passed along all these 10 yrs. To complicate things, he's in foster care.  I meet with him after school Monday.

Today I have a mammogram apt.  I put it off when scheduled at Kaiser.  I know I have one benign lump which can be painful in my r lower duct.  That was found through mammogram then ultra sound.  I met with a specialist in the surgery center at Kaiser who explained they wouln't even do a needle bioposy because they knew what it was.  In past years, I had 2 benign fibrous adenomas and removed surgically.  In 77, they just sent it to the lab and waited in the table.  I was awake. Before they put me under local I had signed a consent form for them to cut it out!  Fortunately, again on thr r, it was underneath in the inner mammary fold so nothing showed.

By 1990, a needle biopsy was done first and still they made an ugly insission that healed with a keloid scar despite wearing a bra 24/7 while it healed.  That too was benign.  This may be a 4th.  It seems different.  The others had no pain. Technology sure had changed. Grandma Cavanaugh died in 1936 of it, and Grandmother Wesley too.  Aunt Florence, my paternal aunt did too in 1961.  I've been monitored since 35 with annual mammograms.  Mom had several benign cysts, fibrous adenomas too.  I remember her in the Hosp. on my confirmation in 1962 for a bioposy.
Dad took me to High's to get my hair put in curlers, because we could wear them to school that day!
My confirmation name is Mary, like Mom's.  I've read the authority, Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book.  Everything went ok. They will compare my results to those from Kaiser.

"Everything is possible." Elie Weisel

When I got home I planned to go out walking with a friend.
Then my lower back froze up again.  It's been a long time since that happened!  I couldn't get out of bed. I took a hydrocodone 5, a muscle relaxer and a Osteo-Bi-Flex.  That put me out for an hr.  I had to close the front door so I almost crawled out.  It was all I could do to get back to bed.  I took another Osteo-Bi-Flex, then another hydrocodone and Flexeril.  It seemed to get better but now it's bad again.  I can barely move.  I just took my last hydrocodone since 4, in 8 hrs.

I finished 3 applications all for librarians, 2 are c.college faculty positions full time.  The other is at Newark High school.  It takes such a long time to complete them.  These have to be submitted by post not electronically.