My son years ago while he was in college, came up with an interesting idea each year just before the new year came in. He and his friends got a big box and filled it with slips of paper of things that happened to them each year that sucked. This year there is a lot… Continue reading Time for the Suck Box

The night before the blood work, CT scan, and 6 month follow up with the Radiologist Oncologist.  Then. Will I be able to sleep? Well, I don’t know. Is he worried? Is it on his mind?  I know it is nagging me a bit, in that little place hidden in the back of my head.… Continue reading You don’t worry until

I get a bit frustrated.  My husband is a good patient if I am home and ‘nagging’ at him.  He eats when I feed him, he does his PT when I suggest it, and we do Tai Chi together when I insist. However, when I am at work, he snacks instead of eats…he doesn’t do… Continue reading Some days

Then you can rarely figure out what to say to someone who has had cancer touch their lives. Recently I had a co-worker come up to me and tell me in a very hushed voice,… “A friend of mine has breast cancer.  What should I say to her?” What? Suddenly I am a cancer expert… Continue reading If Cancer has not touched you

….seams. I guess it is to be expected.  As the PA I saw last week said, “You burned your candle at both ends and it finally met in the middle.” Rich is feeling better, he won’t admit it, but when he can go out for 8 hrs in the woods and sit or stand in… Continue reading Falling apart at the

I had another doctor’s visit and broke down and got the Premarin cream. It is super low dose and only stays locally where I put it. I was horrified at the cost, but since it may cure a few things that ail me, I was willing to take the bite and the minimal risks that… Continue reading We will never be that again