Category: Early Cancer Updates
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Transition
Still going through good days and bad days. They are a little different than before. Prior treatment was more physical bad days. Now I’m going through more mental bad days. (Physically I’m exhausted and adjusting to a lot of things that have changed.) It’s more of a “what happens next?” panic. This usually happens after…
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Radiation Explained.
I was going to start out with “I had radiation today” but then was like…duh, you have radiation every day! I was thinking about how they do it and started to freak out about frying my lungs and heart and stuff. Now I know they went over everything with me but they didn’t have pictures.…
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Hooray for Boobies (part 2)
The last time I had this title I was announcing that my breasts were trying to kill me and I had Breast Cancer. Today, I’m celebrating the new ones I have. (and am getting) So I”m not just settling for one size any more! I want it all!!!!! I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion…
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ZAPPED!!!!
Welcome to the last phase of treatment!! Yes I will be starting an additional anti hormone drug in November. But this will be the last treatment I have to physically go in and have something done to me over time. And to commemorate this I will be parking in front of the “Fire tree” in…
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Keeping up with trends
This week is quite the week. I meet with ALL the Doctors! (AND PT) Of course the song You Wanna Piece of Me runs through my head. But I’ve been noticing I am doing pretty good keeping up with the latest trend in everything. Seems all the cool kids are doing the breast cancer thing..so of…
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Scan Day!
Yesterday I got all the calls for the round of procedures today. I was okay until I got off the phone with the CT scan nurse. Then I was looking at my calendar to make sure I had all my times right. And it started to hit me. What if the scan doesn’t come back…
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Let’s Get this Party Rollin’!
I had my PT session yesterday and asked how close I was to be able to start radiation. I was told to go ahead and make the evaluation appointment. So that was very exciting. Not exactly sure what they are going to do during this appointment but rumor has it I will get my first tattoo…
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Battle
Its’ amazing how you get a dose of normalcy and then something happens to remind you that you are still fighting. I have to keep reminding myself that I still have a long way to go here. I am getting stronger to be able to do radiation. I have no idea how that is going…
