The road calls and I answer
Wednesday night, I got back on the motorcycle for the first time since diagnosis, since it’s the first time my helmet would fit over the damned tumor. I was so […]
Meatball
I was diagnosed with cancer in 2011, and blogged about it. I’ve now merged that blog into this one.
Swedish meatball?
When my oncologist told me that the meatball would shrink dramatically after the first chemo, I really didn’t expect this! It hardly deserves the term meatball anymore. Maybe “Swedish meatball.” […]
Minor bitchin’ and moanin’
First, the upside. All is right in tumor-land. Just had blood counts done, all is normal or better. My tumor is pretty much miniature, at this point. The second head […]
Celebrating normal
Got up this morning around 7, felt okay. Mild nausea, but nothing major, and the pill killed it quick. Got Annie out of bed and moving, made coffee, breakfast, checked […]
The incredible shrinking meatball
Happened to look in the mirror this morning and realized that the meatball has shrunk dramatically since I last took pictures. Even I, with my skeptic hat on, can’t deny […]
Three days after chemo…
It’s Thursday morning, three days after chemo, and a day after a Neulasta shot to boost my white cell production. Wow, I feel like ass this morning. Probably didn’t help […]
Flash frozen in the chemo suite
So, here I am blogging live from the chemo suite at Atlanta Cancer Care. If you’ve never been in one of these places before, it’s a big L-shaped room with […]
Dear Glad Wrap…
Bet you never thought that Press N’ Seal would be used for this. Had to cover over my port incision so it doesn’t get wet.
Coming out of the fog
This morning, they installed my new PowerPort in my chest, which they’ll use to deliver my chemo on Monday. When we were in pre-surgery prep, it was funny, because the same […]
Over the hump (and the lump.)
So today it was back to the oncologist, in a kind of bizarre sort of “hump day.” Today we got over the hump of diagnosis and start the slide into […]