Once More Unto The Breach
Tales of my second go-round with breast cancer before the age of 40, and everything since.
Two Brief Updates/Teasers
First: I remembered the name of the film! All by myself! Just minutes ago! Hooray! I’m beat, though, so the promised post will have to wait a bit longer. But here are two tidbits: 1) I was deluded about Roy Scheider being in it. It’s someone completely different and un-Roy-Scheider-like. 2) It was six letters, [...]
Frustration
I have been wanting to write a post for two days now that likens the whole chemo-fog thing to this effect I saw in a weird, futuristic film sometime between the late 1970s and the early 1980s. The problem is that I can’t remember the name of the film, or enough specifics to deduce the [...]
What One Does After the Steamroller Strikes
Monday, 7PM: Fall asleep on couch. Midnight (or thereabouts): Register return of incredibly handsome husband. Remain pre-verbal. Move to bed. Tuesday, 7:30AM: Wake up. Return to couch. Endeavor not to wake incredibly handsome husband. Open laptop. Check headlines online. Close laptop. Knit four rows of scarf. Walk to kitchen. Make bowl of cereal. Return to [...]
Hold On
I got home just past midnight tonight after having a crappy, crappy day. Hungry and tired, and totally fried, working a temp job. And yet, I don’t want to complain, because at least I’ve got my basic faculties about me. Jody on the other hand is, as expected, in the middle of her fog. Barely [...]
Dark Side of the Moon
If you’ve seen Apollo 13, you probably remember the climactic do-or-die scene in which pretty much the whole world waits to see whether the astronauts and their space capsule will emerge from the earth’s atmosphere and splash down to safety in the big blue sea. There’s radio silence for several minutes, and it goes on [...]
Week 1/Day 2 Haikus
No nausea per se,But feeling a bit funky.Bad taste in mouth sucks! Went with discretionOver valor this morning.Did not go upstate. Zach to Phoenicia.Carpet guy came to measure.Will have flooring soon! I communed with couch.And TV. And internet.Then went to knitting shop. Good news: scarf survived!Bad news: my form is all wrong.Will have to re-learn. [...]
Highlights from Chemo #3
When Zach and I went to bed last night (later than usual, because I was hopped up on steroids), we knew that we had to be at the cancer center by 8AM this morning, so we planned to leave by 7:30AM—”a German 7:30AM,” as I put it. “Planned” is the operative word. We woke up [...]
We’re Live from Chemo Central….
…and we’ll be taking your questions until 2 PM today. Seriously, if you have anything you’ve been wanting to ask, we’ll be happy to enlighten you. We’re not going anywhere for a while. Just post in the comments below.
A & Q
I’m anticipating questions, so here are some answers: Yes, I was on the local news last night. Yes, the footage is supposed to be available on the WB11 website. No, the link doesn’t work. No, I don’t know why. No, it really isn’t your computer. (The links to other stories work.) Yes, I will post [...]
Shoe, Meet Other Foot
It’s not up yet, but I imagine that by some point tomorrow (March 23), there will be a video available at the other end of this link: http://wb11.empowereddoctor.com/ (It will be about breast cancer and genetic testing.) If you watch it, you will understand the title of this post (I hope). <sigh>
