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2016 – A Year in Selfies
Read more: 2016 – A Year in SelfiesI love to take selfies when I hike. I’d like to share my year in selfies … some of you might recognize yourself in the pictures 🙂
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Yesterday I climbed a mountain
Read more: Yesterday I climbed a mountainDon’t look down, I keep telling myself as I step across the rock strewn path. I look down and see a clear path, 500 feet (ok maybe only 200 but it might as well have been 500 for how I felt), down a rock strew wash and think it would make for a nice waterfall…
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Neuropathy update
Read more: Neuropathy updateIt has occurred to me that it has been a long time since I’ve talked about my chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy. At about this time last year I saw a pain doctor. Just in passing he mentioned the option of a 24-hour time released gabapentin (known as Horizant). It often isn’t mentioned because it isn’t…
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December 17 – Just another day
Read more: December 17 – Just another dayToday was a typical Saturday. At 6am my alarm goes off. I roll out of bed and make myself a cup of coffee. I look at the thermometer and notices that it is 14 degrees inside the house (brrr) and only 1 degree outside – cold enough to cover vegetation with a layer of frost.…
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Patient Health Literacy
Read more: Patient Health LiteracyI posted this originally over on my academic blog: http://rjh.goingeast.ca. However, I think those who read this blog are in a better position to answer the question I’m asking at the bottom – so please bear with some of the academic language. In Arthur Frank’s (1995) seminal book The Wounded Storyteller, he cautions “On rare…
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New hair day
Read more: New hair dayI’m a little obsessed with my hair. Not in a need to be a fashionista kinda of way, just in a way in which my hair fell out, and the way in which it is recovering from the effects of chemotherapy. Yesterday I got my first hair style in years (too many really). Even before…
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Survivorship plans
Read more: Survivorship plansThere is a theory that at some point after active treatment you have an appointment to review a survivorship plan. That is, what do you need to know and do once active treatment is over? How do you manage your health issues post treatment? I went to that appointment, but didn’t get much out of it.…
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Health (illness) bloggers
Read more: Health (illness) bloggersIn my literature review for my research I came across a great article (Keating & Rains, 2015) on the social support health (illness) bloggers receive. The article does a good job looking at social support of bloggers over a three year period. One of the things that came clear in the article is the use…
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Memories of clear nodes
Read more: Memories of clear nodesIt was two years ago today that I got the very good news that the initial pathology returned that my lymph nodes showed no signs of cancer. It was a few days later when the final pathology report came in that it was confirmed that my lymph nodes did not show any signs of having had cancer –…
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Does participation in the breast cancer blogosphere increase anxiety?
Read more: Does participation in the breast cancer blogosphere increase anxiety?I just read an article about eHealth literacy and anxiety and it got me thinking. Actually I’ve been thinking about it a fair bit lately – since my last appointment with my breast surgeon. At that appointment, the nurse practitioner told me “you have been cured”. It is the first time that someone has used…
