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Life doesn’t suck
Read more: Life doesn’t suckThere is no easy way to put this, January was a pretty sucky month in cancer land. It seems like from the moment I returned from Epic some celebrity or another died of cancer. To top that off, at least a couple of bloggers died, and several others had disease progression. Closer to home was…
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Thank you everyone …
Read more: Thank you everyone …Last night I had hosted a birthday party / gratitude party. When sending out the invites I was struck by out much of my California social circle are from the breast cancer community. This really shouldn’t be a surprise, as I was diagnosed very shortly after moving here. Someone pointed out that although breast cancer brought…
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What Maslow & Bloom can teach us about cancer survivorship
Read more: What Maslow & Bloom can teach us about cancer survivorshipAlthough healing and curing are different, they are entwined. For any cure to work, the physical healing power of the individual must be sufficient to enable recovery to take place. But healing goes beyond curing and may take place when curing is not at issue or has proved impossible. Although the capacity to heal physically…
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My meds are making me sick … #celiac
Read more: My meds are making me sick … #celiacI’m looking for some help in understanding how laws work in the US (sorry I’m a Canadian living in the US). I am so frustrated and annoyed. I’m frustrated at the lack of disclosure of gluten in drugs, and I’m annoyed that I didn’t do my due diligence and check for myself before taking medication…
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A little too enthusiastic
Read more: A little too enthusiasticSo on the Thursday at Epic Experience I was perhaps a little too enthusiastic. Then on the last day, I figured I could run (more like sprint) in the deep snow with my snow boots on. That didn’t work out so well. I was in enough pain that one of the staff brought me back…
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My biography
Read more: My biographyI spent the day today preparing my biography for an upcoming Commonweal cancer help program. We were tasked with writing our biographies. We could write as much or as little as we wanted. We could talk about any aspect of our lives. It was an interesting reflection. I started at the end really. I wrote a…
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The bait and switch (ugg)
Read more: The bait and switch (ugg)It appears I got caught by the bait and switch when it comes to my prescriptions. I got a message from ExpressScripts telling me that I could save money by moving my prescriptions to their service (they are also the provider of my prescription plan). The theory was, that I cannot get a 90-day supply…
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It doesn’t feel like a tragedy
Read more: It doesn’t feel like a tragedyAm I a bad person? I cannot help it. When I hear of someone famous dying of cancer and they are in their 70s, it just doesn’t feel like a tragedy to me. I cannot help but think that they had a good long life. I guess that at the same time as seeing news…
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Next steps in hormone therapy
Read more: Next steps in hormone therapyToday I started with the aromatise inhibitor (AIs). It is the next step in hormone therapy. I’ve been doing ovarian suppression since October. I delayed the start of AIs in order to ensure that I was only introducing one new drug to my system at a time. I don’t like to change too many things at once,…
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Last week I got to be Wonder Woman
Read more: Last week I got to be Wonder WomanOn the drive up to the 7W Ranch near Dotsero Colorado, we were all asked to come up with a ‘camp name’. I had a hard time as I really wanted to use a name that represented who I wanted to be for the week. So, not just a nickname, but also a name that would help…
