Almost. One of the most intriguing side effects of chemotherapy is hair loss. It’s the one that I have had the most controversial (I think) comments about before it’s even begun. Some comments I’ve gotten include: I probably won’t lose my hair and thinking I will is negative thinking, or even if I lost some […]
This entry is an edited repost from my updates on LotsaHelpingHands Community December site for those of you reading that. We are now at week 2 of cycle 1, and I feel pretty good. The known side effects are old friends and we have a rhythm to our relationship now. I hate them, they love […]
Back in December 2015, I was in Panama for what should have been 3 weeks working with Give and Surf. I arrived the week before Christmas, settled into the volunteer house in the secluded part of Isla Bastimentos in Bocas Del Toro. Tropical weather, Caribbean beaches, good waves plus the opportunity to help teach the […]
No actually, it isn’t… Chemo cycle 1 of 6 started last Friday 9/9. I’m at Day 5 (infusion is day 1). It’s not as terrible as I’d expected, but it’s not great either. I did expect the worst. I was most scared of the nausea/vomiting because I’ve had those bad in the past. So far, […]
I made a flowchart of sorts for my treatment, because, well, it’s me. By August 26 officially (or even before that, unofficially), I knew what the treatment plan was going to be for my cancer. Nothing was going to be unprecedented, or out of the ordinary. I knew we would start with neoadjuvant therapy for […]
I have breast cancer… Although I first felt the lump in May, between waiting to see if it’ll go away, waiting to see my GP, then waiting to get an appointment for a mammogram, it’s taken a couple of months to get answers. But, by the time I got the first tests (a diagnostic mammogram, […]
Journal of odd days (even ones too) 