This post will be a visual odyssey through my last day of chemo. I’m too verklempt to write much about it today. ⬆️Straight clowny⬆️ ⬆️Feeling chatty⬆️ After a fun lunch high on the the pre-meds with my A-Team of my mom, sister and huz, I came home and have been sleeping ever since. My body…
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Chemo Eve (Ho Ho Horrible)
***Pills pictured above clockwise from top left: Prozac (you try navigating cancer without an anti-depressant/anxiety, judgy-pants), Astragalus, My Community Host Defense Mushroom supplement, 2 steroids, Turkey Tail Root Mushroom supplement, Claritin. Not Pictured: Vitamin D, which fell off my head. (And PS- that is a shadow on my noggin not a scary bruise.) So tomorrow…
When You Are Bald, Everything Is a Hat
I am sort of a trendsetter. I am quite sure that after posting this image of me wearing half of a cardboard fruit snacks box as a hat, a trend will be born. I am naturally bald at this point, but have had this bizarre ostrich hair on the top of my head that somehow…
Downward Spiral
2/3 of my kids have been pretty sick with strep etc. for the last 10 days. As a parent, I am in danger of catching their germs. As a cancer patient in chemotherapy, I am fucked. Every day that I have woken up feeling normal I have been amazed. It’s been 10 days. How could…
Uninspired
I haven’t been blogging. I haven’t felt I have had anything of real interest to say. Here are a couple of blog concepts I’ve been tumbling around: More general complaining Cake! My kids have been sick all week. SOS- Feelin’ chubby (see; cake!) Guilt New problem with my arm As you can see, none of…
Women in Labor
***Guest Blog Alert!*** I haven’t been blogging recently cause I am sort of sick of hearing my own voice so my divine sister, Jennie Fauls, has stepped in to guest blog. Jennie is not only my sister, but my cancer shaman. I love her, you will love her too (unless you’re a Trump supporter). Take…
My Breast Friend
So I picked out my boobs this morning. I met with my plastic surgeon to discuss ‘where we are’ in terms of filling the expanders. Started with the bra test where I tried on one of my pre-cancer bras to see how we were tracking in terms of where I started. Oddly, it fit perfectly,…
Animal House
I couldn’t blog yesterday because it was one of the more annoying days of my life, at least in recent history. Plus, I knew if I did write, it would be a scathing, hate-filled rant that would scare most of my dear readers. Now that I am older and more mature than I was yesterday,…
Done
I have endured 3/4 of the chemotheraphies assigned to me. I have 1 infusion left, in 2 weeks. I am starting to hear lots of chatter about being almost done! Can you guess how I feel about this statement? Excited? Hopeful? Joyous? You are wrong. I think it’s total honky. Yea, I have one more…
Stay Puft Marshmallow Face
Low point of chemo today. Feeling lethargic, shaky and swollen. We made it to the cancer center this morning for our hydration date with my new cancer pal Jessica and her family. Jess is 25 and recently diagnosed with breast cancer. I saw her a few weeks ago at treatment and it was like a…
Don’t Get Excited
Don’t have a lot to share with y’all tonight. My appetite is better this time around. I have taken the nutritionist’s advice and have eaten the following in the last 24 hours: Protein drink Baked sweet potatoes and cauliflower, twice! Chicken breast Scrambled eggs Here is what I didn’t eat: candy. And that is a…
Listen All Y’all It’s Nutrition Sabotage!!!!
The day after chemo I go back to the cancer center for a Neulasta shot. You’ve heard me speak of this before. It costs like $1000 per shot (take that, Epipen!) and is meant to hyper-generate white blood cells. It finds the largest bones in your body and basically causes your bone marrow to reproduce…
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