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The story of my breast cancer, one year in retrospect. Includes updates from today.
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I Got Mail!
I had a very nice surprise tonight…Apparently, someone out there with some very good connections likes me a lot, and they decided to tell me so via one of those tiny lingering bastions of communal human hope – the mail box. I mean really,...
Good Old Post…Er, Mail
The last week has brought me many surprises in the mail. I recently find myself often calling it “post” by habit of hanging out with Brits all the time, not to mention the fact that “post” works in a handful of European langua...
Good Reading
Today a weekend pop-in here just to suggest some really good reading. WhyMommy has been doing a series of posts about how to help a friend with cancer. It’s not your average vague suggestion to “make yourself available”; she’s...
Chemo #5
Hey, remember that “this time last year” thing? I’ve been off it for a while for ovious reasons, and I don’t plan on overly focusing on the past, but I do like being able to make the comparisons. While here I’ve been do...
My most outstanding chemo issues
My chemo would become about 2 issues for me. Out of all the possible side effects and things that I dreaded, I had many of them (the racing heart, the ringing in the ears, etc.). But really it always came down to two things that made me miserable: he...
Chemo #2
In general, chemo was a quickly established routine at least as far as certain things were concerned. I would get a headache during the last drug’s drip. I would go home and get ill almost exactly 2.5 hours after my drip. I arranged my chemo fo...
Surgery, Bleah
In the present, I am only one week away from surgery. This time next week I’ll be checking in, unpacking my stuff and answering questions from the nurse. (No doubt including, “Can I have a beer?” like we did last time. Ha!) I’...
Head Shaving Party
So the hair stayed put through the hospital stay. While I remember (and have mentioned) that my head was sore by the end of the stay, a look back at my journal reveals that I didn’t even talk about the process of my hair falling out! It seems i...
Neutropenic Fever (and no, that’s not some slang phrase for something you want)
So, in case you don’ t know the vocabulary yet, this low count of white blood cells is called “neutropenia” or being “neutropenic”. When your WBC is this low, what you are hoping to avoid is “neutropenic fever̶...
My Cancer Twin
Back in early July, before I’d gone to Spain, I had lunch with an American friend of mine. I hadn’t seen her since before all this began, and we obviously needed to catch up. I’d known Jess since before I moved to Belgium, though...
Friends Save the Day (once again)
I quickly became obsessed with the idea that my armpit stank. I don’t really know if that was true, but not being able to bathe properly was driving me mad. Jen, Julie and Del got a kick out of the fact that I was constantly trying to smell it, not...
