2025 update

Still here, all seems good on the cancer scene. no symptoms, every checkup and lab is good. Hoping for a scan to definitively prove it, as far as that goes, but insurance is the final say. I feel fine, if tired easily. still working, nanager now. gives me a few more hours a week. we have a new kitten, Pibbles. i call her Pibbie. a mere 8 week old handful at first, shes now a teenager cat of 6 months. Nita is 12, on steroid shots for coughing. seems to help short term. better than forcing her to take a pill. Kelly is....Kelly. Fat and lazy. Nothing new to report. life goes on. hanging inthere. i hope you are, too. Happy and Blessed 2025.

5/5

of radiation finished. brachytherapy went well. no side effects. my last ct scan showed NED, no evidence of disease!! we will monitor every three months by internal check, any symptoms, and occasional ct scan to see if the lung nodule should change. i dont quite no what to do w myself now though.....

Rang the bell!

6of 6 chemo done. Thats a wrap, folks. On to radiation!

New Year

Chemo continues. finished round 5, only one more to go. its cumulative, so round 4 left me feeling pretty bad a few days. also, the exhaustion is lasting now. this time, i felt worse, kind of nauseated, tender stomach, just wanting to sleep. mow, a week out, im feeling better, but stomach is easily aggravated. by which i mean hurts or feels sore after eating. a scan is being dceduled in 4 weeks, after the last chemo, to see how rhings stand. after that, radiation, though i dont know what kind or how much yet. i hope yall are off to a great year. find the good, and spread it!

Updates

First chemo aftereffects. bone pain sat night til ab mon. exhaustion started tues theu thurs. then was uphill. taste is off, so food isnt as great, though my appetite came back. hair thinned so i shaved it. rockin this look! labs were back to normal by second chemo so that got done. no problems. this time, bone pain started fri night, and exhaustion today/monday. so a full 24 hours sooner. hope i feel up to heading out for Tgiving on thurs. no nausea at all with either cycle, and im grateful for that. lets pray that continues. Happy Thanksgiving

Daily updates

Thurs chemo went well. got there at 9am. started saline and Benadryl drip. port access was easy, just a pinch. very sleepy from Benadryl. nap. started carboplatin around 9:45. no reaction, back to sleep slept til ab 12:45. ate some lunch. gave taxol. no reaction. stayed up til 3. going home time at 3:15 after port flush. no reactions. 6 hours total to monitor for reactions. next might be faster. Friday: feel normal today. eating, tasting normal. should hit me tomorrow. will update if able, or asap.

It's go time

it is 3:51am, and i cant sleep. partly bc ive got my days and nights mixed up, but also bc its Chemo Day. At 8:30 this morning, ill see Dr R ab my labs, then if all is well, head over to the infusion center for my first round of treatment. Round, right, bc this is a fight. my sister will drive me there and pick me up, might even sit w me for a bit. and that will be most welcome, but the fact is, im on my own in this. no husband to hold my hand when the drugs go in, to share funny memes and videos to make me laugh. to get me ice or water or another blanket or snacks or ANYTHING bc hes gone. and im here. ab to sit in a chair and poison myself in an effort to live. bc i have a son, whom i love, and who needs his mama. so i will fight, with everything in me, for him. bc he is our legacy to the world. and he is a treasure, and worth everything this disease and its treatment throw at me. so lets go. lets go kick cancers ass! Jeremiah 29:11