treatment

A Day Off…Sort Of

October 22, 2010

20101021 – A Day Off…Sort Of Well it is official, I am now a graduate of full blown radiation treatment, and have gone to the last treatment…at least for now anyway. I start Chemo with the drug GEMSTAR, tomorrow but today is a day off from cancer treatment, YAY! It is worth noting there was [...]

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Hair Today – Gone Tomorrow

October 20, 2010

Yesterday was a particularly busy day. Rett took off work to run with me. We hit my treatment and then headed to the showdown with the finance department. Surprisingly, they looked into things and totally accepted the blame and were falling over themselves apologizing. A bit too little too late mind you but still they [...]

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How do you spell CANCER?… M-O-N-E-Y!!!

October 18, 2010

How do you spell CANCER?… M-O-N-E-Y!!! Make no mistake about it, on top of all the other things going on in your world once you receive your diagnosis, regardless of how great your insurance is, money is going to be one of your biggest concerns. On top of all the other stuff going on, the [...]

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Full Blown Radiation on My Brain

October 12, 2010

I had a port installed in my chest to start the chemo. A port is a small plastic device that is installed under your skin in your chest, it has a tube that feeds directly into your carotid artery so they just stab this little disc with the infusion needle in your skin and your are fed [...]

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Treatable but Not Curable

October 11, 2010

The oncologist told me I have the cancer everywhere. The cancer starts in the bones of my thighs, travels up my spine into my back, across my neck and shoulders, and into my arms; it’s in my ribs and on my chest. The cancer is in the soft tissue of my right lung as well. [...]

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