Chapter 1: Pop I slept last night! It wasn’t the sleep of my dreams (see what I did there?), but all things considered, it was pretty good. I woke up feeling not only human, but sort of normal. I languished in bed for a while listening to my kids’ cheery voices playing some sort of…
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Top Ten
Tonight’s Top Ten Category is: Top 10 Exciting Chemo Side Effects So Far Number 10: Bone Pain- Most likely from the Neulasta shot meant to bolster white blood cell production. Adult growing pains never felt so horrible! Number 9: Itchy Scalp- Instead of enjoying your hair for the last few days you have it, why not…
White Flag
You guys. This cancer stuff–I fear I am hovering just above the edge of something and I don’t like it. I don’t know what it is, where it is going to take me, but it feels ominous. Surgery seems easy, in hindsight. Healing wounds and binding musculature back together is so straightforward. You feel the…
Because Solidarity Doesn’t Take a Vote- Guest Blogger!
I’m so excited to have my first guest blogger, Tina Hutton Selkirk. I went to high school with Tina, but we did not know each other terribly well. When I saw her again recently as she will describe below, she was a welcome ray of Sunshine in this crappy bag of shit I stepped into. …
Chem-Oh No You Didn’t
First of all, I have been waiting to use this blog post title for over 2 months. Feeling super-awesome to know the time has come. Here is how Chemo Day #1 went down. My husband, sister, mother and I headed to the Kellogg Cancer Center where we met my friend and photographer Katie Gierke of…
Double Black Diamond
I attended college at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The funniest thing about that, is that I am what one might refer to as, ‘indoorsy‘. Me and the outside don’t get along super great so to choose Boulder where the most prominent pastime (other than binge drinking), is outdoor sports, wasn’t a match made…
The Handstand
Yesterday I had a moment where I completely forgot about cancer. I can’t tell you much about this moment because it was just that, a single moment. I was distracted from my reality by something, I don’t know what it was. I do a lot of things that lack sense, but what I did in…
Blue Hair, Don’t Care
Yes, I now have purple/blue hair. With T-minus 3 days until chemo, it’s balls to the mother f-ing wall people. Anyhoo, I have always been told that I am allergic to penicillin. Neither of my parents remember what happened to indicate this allergy, but they know I was an infant when they were told. I’ve…
Bone Scans ‘n Harmony
Today’s cancer party game was a bone scan (‘n harmony). My oncologist was reluctant to even order the scan, but I have been having persistent upper back pain and, since none of this cancer stuff makes sense, anything out of the ordinary is worth checking. Bone Scan Plan: Show up to get a shot of…
Dear Mr. Hemsley
June 28, 2016 Dear Mr. Hemsley (CEO of United Health Care), My name is Grace Lombardo and I am a 36 year old mother, daughter, sister, wife & friend. In April of 2016, I was diagnosed with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma and widespread DCIS- breast cancer. You should know that outside of this recent diagnosis, I…
The Holy Trinity
In the name of Versed, Propofol and Fentanyl… Amen
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