Maybe it was my two-day camp-out in a healing garden, with accompanying campfires, music and healing, or maybe it’s the low-dose sustained release morphine, or maybe it’s knowing that the end to chemo is in sight, but I’ve been doing a little bit better. The steroid crash is still no fun, but at least [...]
As a close friend said, just one more to go! Taxol #3 was completely and blissfully uneventful - no breathing problems at all. Feet starting to turn red again, but hopefully more IV hydrocortisone will do the trick later today.
White and red blood cell counts are holding steady, platelets are back up to [...]
NPR ’s “My Cancer” blog does it again. Our survival instincts are at war with our will to go to treatment. Let’s see, go in for chemo in the same place with the same drug that caused me to have trouble breathing last time? The first reaction is: “Hell no. I [...]
I feel like a walking advertisement for AFLAC. I should have bought their cancer insurance - I think the deal was something like $20 a month and a $9000 payout. That would have worked nicely.
However, I didn’t do it. Sigh. Since my breast cancer diagnosis, due to the sheer # of [...]
Lately, when 4 am hot flashes wake me up, I surf the web and turn to my favorite web author, discovered on Blogher: Birdie Jaworski. She writes gems of stories, about what makes us human and how we give each other little bits of hope. Two favorites: The Day Scotty Saved the Future [...]
Chemopause and cramps, now that’s a winning combination! Not. Taxol apparently has some impact on the endometrial lining…not sure why. But what a physically miserable week. In fact, can we just erase it? Pretend that all that pain never happened. Fine by me. My preference (as if anyone’s [...]
My dad recently handed me a gift in an envelope labeled “Amanda-Strong-As-A-Horse-M. (lastname)” and told me that the women in our family excel at getting through. Along the same lines, my friend Celina just sent me a book that cracked me wide open with its beauty: “What the Ice Gets: Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition, 1914 [...]
Bone pain is the rats patootie. Taking dilaudid every three hours, and still ache in the joints, in the the long bones of my arms and legs….not fun. Luckily the hand-foot syndrome isn’t getting worse, thank goodness for small mercies. Sigh…. But all in all, taxol doesn’t feel quite as icky [...]
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