Survivorship ∼ BC Becky

Navigating the Side Effects of Trastuzumab: Finding Balance and Embracing Summer

Wed May 29, 2024

I’m more than half way through my Trastuzumab (Herceptin) treatments - I’ve actually lost count. I think I might be 10 out of 18. Anyways, I realize that I’m…

That dreaded 50%

Tue January 9, 2024

active treatment

Fifty percent was a number thrown out there, related to recurrence after a regional recurrence. This was the first time someone threw a number out there and it had…

May you live in interesting times

Thu July 9, 2020

Five years and counting

Funny what happens when you Google a phrase. What I had thought was an ancient Chinese curse, turns out to be a 20th century expression with no connection whatsoever…

Danger and opportunity — oh ya, and four years of remission …

Mon December 17, 2018

Emotional Journey

“More than a decade after writing At the Will of the Body, I still think of illness as a balance of danger and opportunity. The danger is that one…

Lots of updates – missing dates – Lori’s memorial – getting back to the gym

Tue November 20, 2018

Emotional Journey

For the first couple of years, every one of my treatment milestones was something I looked back on. I know the dates, but now I don't necessarily recognize them.…

Mountain Biking and Wilder Ranch

Sun September 23, 2018

Survivorship

Yesterday we rented mountain bikes and went for our second ride - having doing a "tour" a couple weeks ago that involved a few small lessons. The lessons came…

Are you your disease?

Wed October 18, 2017

Survivorship

My research looks at the first 35 weeks of my personal experience with breast cancer as I've documented it on this blog. A couple of the themes associated with my…

Re-grounding

Wed July 26, 2017

Survivorship

I cried the entire drive home from my oncologist appointment on Monday. I'm not sure if part of it was that I also had my Lupron shot, so my hormones…