Well, as of last night, I had diarrhea for eleven days, strained abdominal muscles from the violent cramping, a cold for four days, chills, a 100.5 fever and serious food aversions. They still wanted me to come into the chemo infusion center ( Read more... )

I am flying to Omaha today with ( Read more... )

Today is my first post-chemo CT scan, though I won't have the results til Monday's oncology consult. We are looking for additional metastases that may have survived chemo. This will be a quarterly event in my life for next year or two. If things go well in that time frame, we'll drop the frequency, but I don't think it will ever be less than yearly ( Read more... )

This morning is the last time I go in for my chemo infusion. Session twelve of twelve. We're bringing cake for the staff (made by the_child and the Niece, with help from their grandmother), a card, two copies of The Specific Gravity of Grief, one for my oncologist and one for the infusion center's reading library ( Read more... )

I spent a bunch of time discussing my wrtiing with my therapist earlier this week. In the moment, it seemed like an odd choice of topics given everything going on in my life, but I've realized now where he was going with it ( Read more... )

Yesterday was pretty good on the chemo side effects front, mostly. Lower GI continues funky, but not alarming or painful. Just funky.

I experienced transient depression and a fairly deep outbreak of moodiness. calendula_witch and fjm were very kind and patient with me.

calendula_witch is leaving this morning, which is always a little tough on me, and I find as the chemo cycles ( Read more... )

I am finding that every chemo infusion cycle is different. I don't suppose I should be surprised, but somehow I am. Lower GI pattern during after session three has been broadly consistent with sessions one and two, but the details have varied a lot. Less painful and difficult so far, for one, anent which I am deeply thankful. On the other hand, ( Read more... )

Good cancer news: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]

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Don't miss the upcoming Borderlands Books events in San Francisco on 7/18: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]

In the same vein, there's an open dinner in San Francisco next Monday: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]

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Real life cartoons - This life portrait of Charlie Brown makes my head hurt. Wow.

Death by lightning for giraffes, ( Read more... )