Category: The Doctor’s Office
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PET Update
Time for yet another update. My oncologist called this evening with the PET results. Here’s what she said: All the lymph nodes they are following in my neck and the one next to my liver look better than on my last PET. There is a new area in my abdomen, but it’s not showing very…
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The Thunder Rumbles
Buckle up, friends… it’s time for yet another tedious update. I am so weary tonight, so I hope it comes out as something coherent *smile*. For those of you that aren’t on Facebook or didn’t see my post, insurance ended up denying the PET scan that my doctor wanted me to get, so on Thursday…
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I Do Know This
Every now and then I think how I should update y’all on where we are with treatment, and often I hesitate because it’s the same old thing. Go to chemo, feel miserable for a few days, feel okay for a few days, go to chemo again. Wash. Rinse. Repeat cycle ad nauseam (pun intended). So…
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Accepting Reality
Sometimes it feels like I have to accept our reality all over again. And again. And again. After having such a good week, actually feeling well again, it is hard to face what our reality is. Chemo treatment number 14 is today, and I ask myself how I’m supposed to do this again. And again.…
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Deep Breaths
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.” ~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations I often wonder how many tears this head and…
A Spring of Joy 