Archive for February 2012

As Vivian just reminded me…  I am not a statistic.  The rules don’t always apply. My proof?  I successfully kept my white blood cell count high enough to do chemo this week – without any help from pharmaceuticals.  Yay!  Take that! And the kicker?  I managed to do it while fighting a cold AND having…

Normally I try to remain optimistic.  I hope and believe that I can beat metastatic breast cancer.  But the reality is that most do not. In the last few days I’ve been googling up metastatic breast cancer blogs to read other women’s stories.  To be honest, I usually try to avoid reading much of anything…

First of all big THANKS goes out to everyone who offered parenting advice and reassurance from my last blog entry.  I have taken a lot of what was said to heart.  I am applying the wisdom I’m gaining.  Things are getting a bit easier. In other news…  My damn cold is back!  Miss M and…

It’s been a rough day.  A rough week actually.  Not impossible.  Just exhausting. Before sitting down to write this, I happened to read my daily meditation from Melody Beattie’s “Journey to the Heart: Daily Meditations on the Path to Freeing Your Soul”…  And of course it was exactly what I needed to hear… Be Gentle…

Wow!  What an intense couple of days! First, I have to admit it’s been a bit of an adjustment flying solo this week.  I realized that if I am gonna be in treatment for the long haul, I will need to hire some help.  Although everyone’s been great about flying out to Ohio to help,…

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!! So the big news you’ve all been waiting for…  My lovely white blood count…  Well, unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it), my count only rose by 200.  Putting me at 1,600 this morning.  Not high enough for chemo. But I did get my Herceptin (and a bonus…

That damn cold has had me in such a funk these last few days!  I blame it for everything!  My days without exercise…  The cravings for sugary and empty carb treats…  Not finding time for meditation or guided imagery…  And for giving me this big ol’ case of the “blahs”.  Thank god it’s on its…

It’s been an interesting couple of days. Yesterday I woke up feeling like crap.  That damn cold put me in a bad space.  I was feeling sorry for myself and got into a bad case of the “fuck its”…  As in – Fuck it!  I’m just gonna eat almost a whole bag of Stacy’s cinnamon…

Never a good idea to tempt fate.  Everyone around me (including hubby) got a cold over the last week and I, on more than one occasion, commented, “Oh – how interesting that everyone but the cancer patient has a cold!”…  Then of course 3 days later, I too, got the cold.  You wanna get cocky?? …