Creating Memories

Since posting my last blog entry 2 days ago I’ve experienced both joy and pain – in equal measures. Immediately after posting my last blog I crawled into bed and was overcome with a severe case of the “chills”.  Even with 2 sweaters, a bathrobe, towels, and multiple blankets covering me head to toe I…

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In It To Win It

Today I am in pain. It’s like the all over body ache you get when you have the flu…  My back, my legs, my neck…  The pain was sharp at times – until the Tylenol kicked in – and now it’s become more of an all over dull radiating bone ache.  This is the Zometa…

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Take The Good With The Bad

Week 3 chemo treatment done.  And I’m still feeling pretty damn good. Each time though, my first chemo drug (Taxol) seems to really hit me in a weird and intense way.  My body is definitely not vibing with the Taxol.  Last week I swear I could feel it flowing and burning through to the tips…

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Workin’ It

Ok, I realize I’ve been slowing down on the posts a wee bit.  The good news is that I’ve been slowing down because I’ve been spending my time having fun, creating memories, and living life. Yesterday evening the auntie brigade begun. Auntie L arrived from Massachusetts and all of us couldn’t be happier.  Miss M…

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Feeling Groovy

It’s hard for me to believe sometimes that I really do have cancer. I don’t feel sick.  I’ve gone through two rounds of weekly chemo without getting nauseous, or throwing up, or feeling much pain at all.  I’m not really feeling any side effects.  My hair is still in place.  I still have energy. In…

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Trust Your Instincts

Second chemo session today.  So far so good. Any day now my hair will start falling out.  I’m actually not feeling too emotional about it.  I know one day it’ll grow back again – And from what I hear it grows back thicker and more beautiful than ever before.  Hell yeah! But I also feel…

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Bye Bye Grandpa!

Grandpa is gone.  He left bright and early yesterday morning. Today – Miss M is a complete and utter mess.  When I ask her why she’s so fussy and sad she says to me, “because I miss grandpa!”  Poor thing.  After spending over 7 whole weeks with us here in Ohio it was finally time…

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Living Life

It’s kind of odd how life just continues to go on – even in the face of stage IV cancer. These last few days I’ve been feeling almost “normal”.  Aside from the little twinges of pain here and there, I feel strong, healthy, and clearheaded.  I stopped taking my anti-nausea meds all together and feel…

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Love is the Answer

Today was a better day. Realizing it was a better day, I of course then try to figure out what helped to make it a better day…  Was it because I exercised today?  Because I drank my allotted 1 cup of coffee at 2pm instead of 9am?  Or maybe because I ended up skipping my…

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Blah-Day-Blah

I am tired. Physically tired.  Mentally tired.  Tired of being poked and prodded.  Tired of endless doctors appointments.  Tired of never ending scans and tests (in the last month & a half I’ve had a mammogram, ultrasound, biopsy, CT scan, bone scan, PET scan, 3 MRIs, and an EKG)…  And I may still have to…

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