Many thanks to PdxLeeAnne from the breastcancer.org discussion boards for the video to the Crowning Glory hair-raising drive for Burning Man 2007. My naturopath had mentioned this on Friday, asking me to donate locks of my hair. Heck, donate?! Of course, but now I want to go! If you go to [...]
During this round of chemo feeling better started at day 8. That’s when I started doing normal things like going to the grocery store. Of course, this time I have no hair. Scarves and buffs are my headgear of choice these days, and they’re pretty darned comfortable. In fact, so comfortable that I sometimes [...]
One of the blogs I read these days is the NPR Cancer Blog. Today’s post: Caring Can Be the Toughest Part.
Ahh….the worrying that goes on around me. It’s almost too much for me some days, but it’s natural, normal, and in reality can’t be any other way. It is what it is…and [...]
….is pretty darn slow. Today is day 6 of round #2 - as the nurse said today when I called, I’m almost 1/2 way through with the A/C. Still feel like crap, but actually went to work today, thanks to the miracle of acupuncture. So, things are looking up. Plus it’s [...]
It’s begun! Running my hand through my short, short hair and it comes out….YIKES. Off to shower in a bit once Mariana is awake and can come over for coffee and support. This is Day 4 of chemo #2, pretty shaky but taking things an hour at a time. My hair [...]
Sleep when tired.
Eat when hungry.
Drink when thirsty.
Get outside.
Sounds easy, right? I wish the basics were easy for me, but no. I think I need a kid around, because when Katie & Jackson are around, we do all those things, otherwise we all suffer from cranky children. As an adult, I just tough [...]
It was the hair falling out into my breakfast cereal that did it. I wasn’t sure at all about cutting off all of my hair, cutting it shorter than many boys, but then I was eating breakfast and all of a sudden there was hair in my food. And it was my hair. [...]
Today, Day 12 following chemo round #1 has been the best yet. I’m eating semi-normally, and have felt decent nearly all day. So for all of you who are out there worrying, know that things are better. Days 6 - 8 however were really bad, and I threatened to quit chemo. [...]
Just wanted to share the following article from the May 8 New York Times called “The Struggle to Move Beyond ‘Why Me?’” It provides a bit of grace and grace is in short supply lately, and I know that each of my loved ones has been struggling with the question of why I got cancer, [...]
So here’s a post for the personal finance bloggers out there: How much does it cost to have breast cancer? I’m not talking pain and suffering or other qualitative costs, though I’m sure that there’s an actuarial formula somewhere that puts a price on the loss of a breast, on the loss of [...]
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