Tag: cancer
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October
You might be aware that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This is the time of year when merchants get on the pink bandwagon and sell lots of product.Every year some companies find a way to take advantage of good deeds – and this practice is known as “pink-washing”. Hypocritical companies use those pink ribbons…
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The Road Trip
Six weeks ago Senor was receiving attention for the pads on his paws, and was asked by the podiatrist if he planned to go to the “Big”TR show being held that upcoming weekend in Campbell River( a four-hour drive from our kennel) He returned home ,told me about the show, and then declared that he…
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Lionel Shriver
It has been 149 days since my last chemo treatment. Lionel is married female writer who is sixty one years old. She changed her name , but not her sex ,at fifteen. She just wasn’t digging being called Margaret. That must have been pretty “far out” in the sixties. Lionel might ring a bell for…
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Chemo Round 19 & 20
My last dose of Herceptin was Oct. 29th. It was a festive day for Senor and I , and a high sugar day for the staff in the chemo room. The nurse and I were singing “Last Chemo” to the tune of Gloria Gaynor’s old disco hit “Last Dance”. Little did we realize how inappropriate…
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Chemo Rounds #17 &and #18
Senor and I are approaching what we think is the cancer treatment finish line. It cannot come soon enough! My final dose of chemo should be Oct. 29th if my heart is willing and able. We started on August 26, 2014 so we are into year two of treatment.I am not going to tell you…
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Colouring Your Cares Away
Little things, not big things make us happy. Don’t try and tell that to Senor when he is gazing deep into his new french door, tall boy fridge! All the food/kibble right there at eye level. When did we stop being children and cease doing the things we enjoyed? For some it may be jumping…
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Chemo Round #15 & #16 & Almost #17
It has been brought to my attention that I have been delinquent in my blog posts. It is a good thing that I have not accepted any kind of advance from a publisher. Not that one has been offered. I have, however, been contacted by a for real professor at Kent State University (is that…
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Chemo Rounds # 13 & # 14
Yesterday someone asked me if I had died. They reminded me that I have not posted anything since April 26th. So here I am, but I have to forewarn you that this is a depressed animal “unleashed” with her thoughts. The drug Tamoxifen turned me into suicidal and homicidal “bitch”(it is socially acceptable for me…
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Chemo Round #12
Thursday was another 45 minute day at club chemo. It seems like we have been going to the CC forever, but I still have eight more treatments of herceptin to go. That is 24 more weeks. Practically half of a year. And a darn long time in dog years. It is getting tiresome. Much as…
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Chemo Round #9
Chemo Round #9 was a big deal to Senor Poodela and I. We approached the event like graduating from high school. #9 was to be the last of the long and really damaging doses of chemotherapy.That is not to say that there are still many more months of chemo ahead for me, just not as…
All Pinked Out 