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I am a jumble of emotions today.  If I was still getting my period i’d say I was PMS’ing. This morning I sat down to breakfast with Miss M, opened my email, and came across a post from fellow metastatic breast cancer warrior Katherine O’Brien on her blog ihatebreastcancer.  Then I started to cry. This is how…

                12 weeks of chemo done!  Woohoo!!  One round down…  Who knows how many more to go… The Neupogen shot (pain in the ass that it was) helped boost my blood count to 3,700.  Way above the minimum needed to get my last chemo today.  Although I’m sure…

I am trying so hard to find the balance between eastern and western medicine.  I’ve never been one for extremes.  I prefer everything in moderation.  So I believe a balance has to exist. What I’ve noticed so far is that western medicine hurts a lot and eastern medicine takes a lot of time and energy.…

  Today is my mom’s birthday.  She would have been 64. Unfortunately, as most of you already know, my mom passed away almost 2 years ago.  Cancer. But today I celebrate her birth and remember the brilliance of Jeanne Robinson – dancer, writer, choreographer, Buddhist, sister, wife, friend, aunt, and of course, mother.  I could…

We have good news and bad news. The bad news is is that my white blood count dropped to 1,500 this week (down from 2,400 the week before).  But the good news is that I got my chemo anyway.  With only one more week to go in this round of chemo I’m just eager to…

What a fantastic weekend!! The fabulous Auntie L returned on Friday for another week long helping visit.  Yay!  And hubby and I took off to Cincinnati on Saturday for an overnight adventure to celebrate our 9 year wedding anniversary (the NY City Hall 2 minute wedding – not the spiritual ceremony in San Francisco).  This…

Just a quick post to let everyone know that I got my chemo again today!  This is the fourth week in a row that I’ve managed to keep my white blood count up high enough to get chemo using natural methods instead of pharmaceuticals!  Yay!!!  And this week my count rose again – another 100…

Wow.  I have been totally MIA from the blogosphere all week.  What happened???  I’ll tell ya – It was summer weather and visiting friends. Just this morning the latest troupe of visiting helpers hit the road.  The house seems very quiet now.  Having my girlfriend V here all week with her 2 1/2 year old…

More good news today…  I kept my white blood count high enough to do chemo yet again!  This is the third week in a row!  And get this – my count today was 2,300 (up 400 from the previous weeks & above the required count of 2,000)!!!  Woohoo!!! I think my entire medical team is…