Category: The Doctor’s Office
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What Has Been Given
Lately life has seemed like just a chaos of holding on to hope and making it through each day. I realize there are many of us out there who feel this way, no matter what the cause may be. We have been learning the new normal of treatment, response, recovery and then chemo again, and…
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Quiet Celebration
Today I should be at work, but I am curled up under blankets next to a roaring fire… splitting headache, achy body, nausea, fatigue. Chemo. Y’all, I don’t even know how to describe the wretchedness of chemo. On Monday as I walked into the cancer center with my dad (best chemo buddy ever!), I told…
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Every Moment
This past weekend was full of so much wonderful. My Bear and Bella were in our little city Christmas parade. Their school created a lovely “Alice in a Winter Wonderland” float, and Bear and his look-a-like buddy from class loved being Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum while Bella girl walked next to it as the 10 of…
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Eyes on Jesus
Today I went in for my chemo treatment. It had been a quiet three weeks without setting foot in the cancer center. At my last visit we learned the tumor markers had dropped in half, and each week my blood numbers are dropping but not anything drastic. It was enough that she didn’t feel the…
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New Chemo
Just a brief update: On Tuesday, September 8, I received my first round of the new chemo. It was a very long day (took 5 hours total), and I was exhausted by the time I got home. Wednesday I woke with a debilitating migraine and by mid-afternoon I was throwing up, unable to even keep…
A Spring of Joy 