Gold Medalist Shannon Miller Diagnosed with Cancer
Two-time Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Shannon Miller is cancer-free after doctors recently discovered a baseball-sized cyst on an ovary and removed the tumor last month. The cyst, which turned...
View ArticlePost Op and Tid Bits
Went to Moffitt for post-op this morning, left at 6 a.m. That really is bodily annoying if anyone knows what I mean. Great news. I don’t even have to take tamoxifen, the drug that further suppresses...
View ArticleThe Follow up Was Good
Ed and I got up really early and drove to Moffitt in Tampa (2 ½ hours) for my follow-up appointment. I felt so sick – earache, bad throat, achy all over, but I didn’t want to cancel. So I took a hot...
View ArticlePost Christmas Tale
I cooked, baked and did all the traditional things and we were all together on Christmas Eve. Owen was the star and passed from hand to hand until everyone got a chance to hold him. We had a lovely...
View ArticleAnother Check-up
Well, I’m still working through stuff posted from last September when I had to go to the hospital for tests because I wasn’t walking right and everyone thought I was having a stroke (except me, that...
View ArticleBeing N Ormal
There may be such a thing as normal but I wouldn't know how to define it. Our life right now is abnormal and that is easy to define but I think we are getting used to it. I have been spending a lot of...
View ArticlePreventing Hair Loss Due to Chemotherapy
From today's news: "DALLAS - A woman's hair is one of her most identifying features, so it makes sense that hair loss can be an emotionally devastating side effect of chemotherapy. "When you lose your...
View ArticleThe Human Condition
All of us have difficulties but it hurts to see bad things happen to good people as they inevitably do. Some people just sail through life with the wind at their back and others are sorely tested. I...
View ArticleDodged Another Bullet ...
Our friend, Joan, is here from New York City, spending a week and we are doing quiet things. We drove around a lot today, sort of keeping Ed company while he ran some errands and got home around 4...
View ArticleCancer Conquered
Many years ago, I conquered cancer of the cervix. I was lucky and they caught it early. The treatments were unpleasant and I soldiered through as best I could. Luckily it didn't involve going through...
View ArticleMedical Woes
Bobby is recovering from the last week's chemo. Ted had dental surgery yesterday and Rex went to the vet today for his yearly shots. Ted and Bobby are doing as well as can be expected and Rex has his...
View ArticleRemembering a Year Ago
I spoke yesterday with Stephanie, daughter of my dear friend, Penny, who died a year ago. I learned more about the course of Penny’s illness – stuff I hadn’t wanted to ask during the keen days of...
View ArticleIntimate Details of My Colonoscopy
You have got to be kidding! Do you honestly think I want to relive the horrors of those awful two days? Suffice to say, the good news is the doctor found nothing of interest. The bad news is I have to...
View ArticleUp=date on Me
As of now I am taking I pint of platelets per week. It is a 180 mile round trip. But as long as they can keep my red and white corpusles balanced I will be ok.
View ArticleTwisting in the Wind
We are on pins and needles right now. Bobby called me yesterday and asked me to take him to the doctor. His heart was beating at twice the normal rate. They gave him beta blockers but as of last night...
View ArticleLife
This time in my life is really sad but I find comfort in being with Bobby for a while every day. There is always some small thing that I can do to provide comfort. He is responding well to radiation...
View ArticleJust Stuff
I am spending the day with Bobby. I made banana pudding and I hope he will be able to eat some of it. This last ditch chemo is a real bummer. I wish he would just chuck it and try to enjoy the time he...
View ArticleInside Story
Yesterday was the first time that I ever accompanied Bobby to a medical appointment. It was for the purpose of removing a chemo pump which he has to wear for three days following Chemo treatment. He...
View ArticleThe Last Few Days
They have been a nightmare since Thanksgiving. Bobby took a turn for the worse on Thanksgiving day and has been so sick and weak. I cannot even put into words how painful his condition is for him and...
View ArticleWorried
Life has a way of throwing nasty surprises our way. I just found out that a much loved niece has a mass on her lungs. She has been repeatedly diagnosed with COPD and although we are not sure it is the...
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