Oh my goodness, I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck. I woke up, nauseous, around 7 and staggered out of bed to take my meds. Asleep again on the couch by 9:30, and it’s all I can do to keep my eyes open. I haven’t eaten a bite, and my mouth feels like [...]
Posts Tagged ‘breast cancer’
Grrr! Aarg!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged breast cancer, cancer, chemo on May 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »
First day of chemo!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged breast cancer, cancer, chemo on May 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »
So the stories are true – chemo itself is not actually a huge deal. You sit in a reclining chair with a needle in your port (which only stings for a second) and you can’t feel much. They gave me intravenous anti-nausea drugs, which made me sleepy – I slept through most of my 90 [...]
Chemo today!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged breast cancer, cancer, chemo on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In … 15 minutes! Where’s my ride?
Mxyzptlkexidrone
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged breast cancer, cancer, drugs on May 4, 2009 | 12 Comments »
To the pharmacy this morning to pick up my exciting new drugs – two anti-nausea drugs, a drug that I pray will prevent cancer-cankles, and a drug that suppresses the immune system, though why that’s a good thing I do not know. Yesterday was bad – my lymph node biopsy site is wicked swollen – [...]
Two more procedures
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged breast cancer, cancer, Surgery on April 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today I took the bus to the medical center to have a small metal clip, about the size of the point of a ballpoint pen, installed in my … well, in my tumor. Sorry, I know that’s gross. It was not a very comfortable procedure, but it didn’t take long and was not a big [...]
Recent nice things
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged breast cancer, cancer, happymaking on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just got a nice email from my undergraduate adviser, who closed: “Take care, be strong, and defeat this.” This actually made me get misty-eyed for a minute. Along similar lines, when I told our local epistemologist of my situation, he said, “Courage,” only in French, which is courage. You know – the exact same [...]
What we need now is sass.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged breast cancer, cancer, Recommended reading on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I really dig Twisty Faster’s irreverent style, and as breast cancer survivors go I could do worse in terms of role models. For example, I am dismayed by this post, but she knows the drill and she’s saying it straight. Also in the Sass category (my favorite!) we have 10 Things Not to Say When [...]
Show Me
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged breast cancer, cancer, Recommended reading, Surgery on April 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The other day, a woman at Roswell’s education and outreach center loaned me a book called Show Me: A Photo Collection of Breast Cancer Survivors’ Lumpectomies, Mastectomies, Breast Reconstructions and Thoughts on Body Image. It took me a little while to work up the courage to peek inside, but when I did, I found it [...]
5 Misconceptions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged breast cancer, cancer on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1. In order to have a bone scan, you must be injected directly into your bones. Haha! Not true at all! In fact, they just inject you in a vein, like EVERYONE ELSE IN THAT BUILDING. Jeez, I had mixed feelings about the Mediport, but after my bloodwork and my CT scan and my bone [...]
No More Whining!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged breast cancer, cancer on April 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I must confess that I’ve been whining kind of a lot since I got my diagnosis. Actually, I think the whining may have started in earnest when my parents got to town. I was scared and I wanted to be taken care of, and I was using whining as a means to that end. I’m [...]
