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Cancer Blog Entries Archived by Date
- 2009 (4)
- April (1)
- If it's not one thing, it's another......... It is not quite one year since my diagnosis. When I first told my Mom (may her memory be for a blessing) the first thing out of her mouth was something like "Oh good, now you'll lose some weight". She...
- March (2)
- About the Cruise..... Thanks to all, for their comments about growing hair back in. Especially to Mac, who made me laugh. I have actually decided to keep my hair short! I love the freedom it gives me, and, as my oncolog...
- Advise Sought - problem with "new" hair.... Silly, I know, but does anyone have advice about how to manage their hair as it grows back in? When I had no hair I ended up with cradle cap. Now that I have "short" hair I am having terrible dandruff...
- February (1)
- Two Steps Forward, one step back Lots of lerning. I have not been on the site in a long time. There just wasn't that much I would/could share. I focused so much on getting "back to work and back to normal" that all I have been do...
- April (1)
- 2008 (10)
- October (1)
- How much more can I take? Just as I was starting to "feel better" (not sleeping all the time, not in pain all the time) my Mom was hospitalized. I spent a week visiting each day - which included a 45 minute drive each way - th...
- September (1)
- Post Hospitalization - The Transplant Worked! I got out of the hospital just about a week ago. I have been so exhausted that email didn’t even come on my radar screen for days and days and days. I am pleased to report that the treatment (a...
- August (1)
- Update after a month of silence (and an apology for the silence) i SPENT MOST OF THE PAST MONTH PREPARING TO BE OUT OF THE OFFICE FOR TWO MONTHS OF MEDICAL LEAVE. Aside from weekends, spent visiting my Mom in her mursing home on Saturdays, and Sunday spent trying t...
- July (5)
- Transplant 101 I wll be given an autologous stem cell transplant, meaning I am the donor - no searching for a match. During phase 1 I will be given a drug to stimulate my bone marrow to produce lots of cells. Then t...
- Pre-transplant testing starts today I knew I had an appointment today with Dr. B, transplant physician. Imagine my surprise when I got the "confirmation" call yesterday, and was told the doctor had time on his schedule so they were plan...
- Transplant Planning In Process Now On Wednesday I attended a required 2.5 hour appointment with a nurse practitioner at the transplant division of the oncology practice through which I am being treated. This is part of their standard p...
- July 4 Update and random thoughts So I took myself off Thalidomide earlier this week because the neuropathy had spread which scared the heck out of me and I knew I couldn't drive like that, or even hold a pencil to write. Doctor has a...
- WHAT IS MYELOMA? For friends and family who might like to know what myeloma is, I found a definition online. Multiple Myeloma is literally an "oma," or tumor, involving the "myelo," or blood-producing cells in the ...
- May (2)
- Gift fom a friend My best friend is a medical librarian who put together a blog on myeloma:[http://multiplemyeloma.wordpress.com/] I have not read it all the way through, but I do appreciate her help. It appears ope...
- Sarajane is Diagnosed So as many of you know, Catherine and I have a thing about 25's. Her birtday is October 25th, mine is June 25th. Our first wedding was on May 25th and our second (in Canada) was on July 25th. Now ...
- October (1)
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