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Decide who you trust

Mon October 12, 2015

A friend (Marie Ennis O’Connor) has asked me to blog about something that I’ve learned through my experiences with breast cancer. I went back through my blogs, looking for…

Fatigue and my knees

Thu April 9, 2015

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At one point this afternoon I realized that what I was feeling might just be fatigue - rather than tiredness. I've been struggling with a cold all week and that…

Catching up with some pictures

Sun February 15, 2015

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I'm getting a little behind on posting pictures. I took this one of me at my tree last Friday (Feb 6). The area around the tree was a muddy…

Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy

Sun February 8, 2015

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Effective treatment of established CIPN, however, has yet to be found. Lastly, paclitaxel causes a unique acute pain syndrome which has been hypothesised to be caused by neurologic injury. No drugs,…

Neuropathy – what’s old is new

Tue February 3, 2015

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I seem to be going through these cycles. The first time, I called it chemo recall. It is when my body gives me the same symptoms I had during…

Pathology – What it means …

Sun December 7, 2014

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I've gotten pretty good at interpreting what the pathology reports say, but I'm not great at what it means. Just before my oncologist walked into the room I said…

‘For now, the chemo is done …

Fri October 31, 2014

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Yesterday was my last scheduled chemotherapy - taxol. We went to the tree before my first appointment and took the requisite pictures. I had some fun with it. Towards…

Chemo Tourist

Thu October 23, 2014

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Today I was a chemo tourist. The infusion center I normally go to was full, so they booked me at the new Stanford infusion center in Redwood City. Boy…

Oh how easily I forget

Sun October 19, 2014

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I had three days off of chemo (rather than 7 days between infusions, I had 10 days). In those three extra days, some of the persistent side effects of…

Groundhog Day

Mon October 13, 2014

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Last night I was reminded of Groundhog Day - if the groundhog sees his shadow, then 6-more weeks of chemo - if he doesn't see his shadow, then we are…