Cancer Blog Entries Archived by Date
- 2007 (10)
- November (6)
- 3 Day Hospital Stay Did you know the zofran they give you for the nausea also gives you headaches? and blurred vision? You did know that because you went on the internet and read all the side effects and interactions w...
- Neulasta shot number one The Neulasta ads ask "Are you ready?" Ready to feel really, really sick? Oh my. The tiredness came from the chemo. The aches, the fluish-I'm sick and I hate it-make it go away feelings are from th...
- Chemo Numero Uno You've met with the radiation oncologist. She's going to zap the area I started growing in, as soon as you finish chemotherapy. You've met with your oncologist who is totally a numbers guy.
If yo...
- Port O Cath....what the heck is that? Earlier I told you that you have nice breasts. Still do, just a cute little scar circling the lower quarter of your nipple....cute! Really! However, you have cruddy veins. They won't stand up to p...
- Pathology Report...it's all about ME!!! Thank goodness the surgeon decyphers it for you. What a bunch of gobbledygook! I came out with clean edges. You're welcome for that. As I said, I hadn't made it to your lumph nodes yet, so those a...
- Lumpectomy So now you have an surgeon, a radiation oncologist and an oncologist for chemo. The surgeon recommends a lumpectomy and a sentinel node biopsy. We did the biopsy thing once and now we have to do it ...
- October (3)
- Core Needle Biopsy Those words sound scary to me, they have to scare the beejeebers out of you, too! Since I'm palpable, meaning anyone who gropes your right breast can feel me (and my o my haven't a lot of people been...
- Reality Check You knew I was here before you got your test results back. That tenderness in your right breast and when you rubbed it, you felt me...a hard lump just sitting there...not moving. There's a myth that...
- Hello, I'm Cancer... People think I'm evil, but I'm really not. I'm just a mutation of normal cells, a little hiccup in your DNA. I've been here awhile, just below your nipple in your right breast. I started out as jus...
- September (1)
- This is harder than I thought I write often and about anything so I assumed when I was diagnosed with breast cancer that I could write about it as well. Not so easy. Breast cancer currently consumes my life. I can no longer mak...
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