My eyebrows are back!

28Jun07

So, one of y’all gently inquired today, and I realized most of you hadn’t heard from me in a while – as a matter of fact, months ago when I was only halfway through radiation. Two things – I think I was enjoying getting back to normal, and work has been very stressful. We got [...]

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Radiation, Etc.

21Feb07

Today I’m almost half-way through radiation – think it will be 33 treatments, and today was number 16. So far, no side-effects to speak of – I’m starting to get a little bit of reddening, like a very mild sunburn. And I am tired – but I’m not sure whether that is the radiation or [...]

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Beyond chemo, beyond surgery – on to radiation…

22Jan07

I virtually went back to work Monday – telecommuting from home. I had had separate emails from my boss, his boss, and his boss saying please rest and take care of yourself, stop reading your email. My surgeon was saying “Have you resumed normal activity?” Think she would have let me go back last week. [...]

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Re: Update

12Jan07

OK, I don’t want to leave anyone with the impression that the hospital did anything medically dangerous. They had me hooked me up to an IV which should have been disconnected, to oxygen (have no idea why – my blood oxygen was 100% going into surgery), to those leg massagers to prevent blood clots, and [...]

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Update

12Jan07

I’ve just been to the surgeon for a checkup, and she says I’m doing fine. The written pathology report is not back yet, she thinks because the pathologist is not finding anything and so is looking extra hard. The sentinel lymph node was negative, which means that either nothing had ever spread, or the chemo [...]

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I’m home!

09Jan07

Will write you all a witty update as soon as I can find the humor in it. The night and a.m. nurses today were the first I had encountered that were not tremendously caring and attentive – my surgeon, when she finally got there today, was not happy with the orders that had been ignored…Anyway, [...]

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After chemo: the next stage

08Jan07

Surgery was today. Lisa checked in at Seton Medical Center at 9:00, surgery was at 12:00, and she is resting in the hospital, under 23 hour observation (we don’t really know why it’s not 24). At this point all is well. She will come home tomorrow and continue recovery here.
Robert, writing for Lisa

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BBC NEWS | Health | Housework cuts breast cancer risk

29Dec06

Now they tell me…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6214655.stm

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The Chemo Chronicles: The Last Chemo!

21Nov06

So should I have a contest to rename this series? Any suggestions?
Today I went for the last chemo, everything went well, and at the end the chemo nurses gathered around and threw confetti. (I’ll be seeing them tomorrow for the follow-up bone marrow booster, next week and the week after for Herceptin, and then [...]

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After the Chemo’s Over

07Nov06

Hello to all. I’m feeling almost normal two weeks after the last chemo. Most of my tastebuds seem to be working, and I can even feel all my toes. Yesterday I spent going around to various medical establishments – radiology oncologist, my Herceptin infusion, a MUGA (neat radiological video of my heart), an MRI, and [...]

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