Yesterday was my first visit to the Advanced Wound Care Center up at Stanford. Fortunately, they are at the Redwood City location, which among other things has free parking…
One of the projects that is currently using up my limited free time is a free online course that I'm building titled "Should I blog? Everything you want to know…
On the theme of making improvements in my recovery, I went for a bike ride this afternoon. For the first time since the third week of Taxol (when I had…
You know you've turned a corner when you are finally adding things to your calendar that are not doctors appointments! Although, frankly, doctors appointments and treatments still fill my days.…
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,…
It is odd not having feeling on your chest. This is something that surgeons have a nasty habit of forgetting to tell you. My surgeon certainly didn't say anything…
So I did it. Yesterday, on my birthday of all days, I started taking tamoxifen. This is a medication that blocks your body's production of estrogen - which is…
