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Cancer Blog Entries Archived by Date

•  2008 (3)
  
  
  •  January (3)
    •  Doctor's Visit & Chemotherapy for January 28, 2008 My continuing diary of events: Last week was my off week from chemo. My husband and I were really looking forward to it. We had such good news about my status on News Year's Eve that we were going ...
    
    
    
    •  Chemotherapy for January 14, 2008 (The reason that these posts are so long is that I use these to jog my own memory about what has happened and when it happened. I'm too lazy to keep a separate diary.) I had the last round in this ...
    
    
    
    •  Test Results Sorry that I've haven't been communicating with you all. I've been having problems logging into this site. Just figured out my problem a few minutes ago. Well, last Friday, December 28, 2007, I had...
    
    
    
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  •  December (3)
    •  Friday's Chemotherapy Treatment Yesterday was my last chemo treatment before Christmas and the last before my "big tests" on December 28th. It was an early appointment, 8:30AM. To get to the medical center and not get tied up in ...
    
    
    
    •  My Own Version of Black Friday Well, yesterday was chemo. It's the short version with only Taxol, no Avastin. I am now fixated on my temperature on chemo days. I should have taken it as soon as I got up. But decided to wait unt...
    
    
    
    •  Return to Chemotherapy Well, this past Friday I got back on chemotherapy. First thing when I got up, I took my temperature -- 98.8. Great! Last thing before we left the house, I took my temperature -- 98.8. Great! I mad...
    
    
    
  •  November (8)
    •  Thanksgiving Well, we had a wonderful time at my in-laws for Thanksgiving. I was able to get my temperature down from 100.7 to 99.9 and later to normal. I never did feel ill at all. While, I was totally unable...
    
    
    
    •  Pre-Thanksgiving Present Well, today was my monthly visit with my oncologist. It is usually on Fridays scheduled before one of my chemo sessions. But since of Thanksgiving, I needed to see the doctor today. Then my chemo was ...
    
    
    
    •  Thanksgiving Crunch Time Somehow I have run out of time to get ready for Thanksgiving. We have to travel about 150 miles to my sister-in-laws. It's going to take us longer than normal since one of the current side effects of ...
    
    
    
    •  Chemotherapy Update Part II Well yesterday I didn't expect to be writing a chemotherapy update part II. It was Saturday morning after a Friday morning chemo treatment and I felt great, as I posted. I felt great until about 8:00A...
    
    
    
    •  Chemotherapy Update Well, yesterday was my long chemo treatment. That is Taxol and Avastin. The week before, I went in to chemo feeling very ill already. That was the first time that I didn't feel well before the tre...
    
    
    
    •  Cold Day I really don't like winter. It froze last night and it's cold today. Yesterday, it think it was over 80, now too cold to sit outside. I just did the formal transition and turned the heat on. Sin...
    
    
    
    •  Friday's Chemo Update It's Sunday morning and I'm doing better now. I was actually hungry and ate yogurt and Special K! Friday's chemo - what a hoot! First, for every other chemo day, I felt great. Not by noon on Friday...
    
    
    
    •  Friday's Chemo Well, it's Friday again. Chemo therapy day. As usual, I can't sleep. This will be the short day with Taxol only. Hopefully, things will go better this week. While the oncologist visit went well la...
    
    
    
  •  October (7)
    •  Friday's Oncologist Appointment I saw my oncologist on Friday. It was a good meeting. All my tests looked good and I got my go ahead for the next round of chemo. They have to keep a close watch my on my blood and urine tests because...
    
    
    
    •  Small Victories Well, yesterday, Wednesday, was grocery shopping day. I put it off all day, including the brief period when we had sunshine. Finally, I finished dressing and we went out about 3:30 in the rain and the...
    
    
    
    •  Grocery Shopping Day Well, today is Wednesday and it's grocery shopping day. This is my husband's favorite day of the week. He gets a 5% discount at Publix. It's my job to look up the specials and create the shopping list...
    
    
    
    •  Can't Sleep Again, Part 3 This past evening I slept through most of Chuck, the first part of K'Ville and most of the football game between the Colts vs. the Jaguars and the 2 black and white movies that my husband played from ...
    
    
    
    •  Can't Sleep Again, Part 2 Another one of those nights, I finally convinced my husband to go to bed without me. I know that's not good for him but I just can't lay still for long periods of time in our bed. I do sleep, just...
    
    
    
    •  Can't Sleep Again Well, it's early morning and once again I find that I can't sleep. I'm driving my husband crazy since I can rarely sleep in our bedroom for more than a couple of hours at a time. And that's by trying ...
    
    
    
    •  Little Support from Medical Team I sorry if this will be considered to be a rant. Am I experiencing something unusual here? I honestly expected a great deal of support and involvement from the medical team that is taking care of ...
    
    
    

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