Tag: chemo
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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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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 #8
Some good news! The result of the brain scan/abdominal ultrasound/and various other recent tests/procedures is… I do not have a brain tumour, but I do have a nice sized gallstone for goodness sake. Just for clarification-the gallstone was not located in my brain, but in the pelvic area. Although there is a small brain and…
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Chemo Round #7
Chemo Round #7, better known to us as Christmas Chemo, took place on December 17th at the usual crime scene. This new regime of drugs, which will occur for four sessions three weeks apart, takes six to seven hours to administer. That is 7 hours tied to an IV pole with nowhere to go other…
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Chemo Round #3
Let us start with the good news. The week before round three the surgeon removed my twisted port and inserted a new one. Each time I have had this procedure, as well as the surgeon checking to see what was going on with the port, I have had to have my neck slit. At this…
All Pinked Out 