My Blog Posts
Hopefully, this list will help you easily find the post you would like to read. Once you find it, look on the right, click the arrow beside the year then the month associated with that post, scroll to the post you want to begin reading!
Newest Posts Listed First
Hopefully, this list will help you easily find the post you would like to read. Once you find it, look on the right, click the arrow beside the year then the month associated with that post, scroll to the post you want to begin reading!
Newest Posts Listed First
Feb 2021
Scan Update-From Feb 8th, 2021
Dec 2020
If it's not one thing . . .
August 2020
Lynch Syndrome
June 2020
A Guessing Game
May 2020Dec 2020
If it's not one thing . . .
August 2020
Lynch Syndrome
June 2020
A Guessing Game
Update on Scans
April 2020
Life Everchanging
Dec 2019
My Sweet Tucker
June 2019
June Scan Results
May 2019
Detox Explained
April 2019
Dream Crusher - possible progression, treated #83 Kadcyla
March 2019
Update -- treatment #82 Kadcyla
February 2019
Kim -- killed by ovarian cancer
Unwittingly Cruel
January 2019 -- I missed this month. This is the first time I haven't posted at least one post each month since I started this blog in 2013.
December 2018
Sugar Feeds Cancer? Yes, but . . .
November 2018
Pretending to be Normal
October 2018
Remembering Diagnosis #1 and #2
September 2018
Hurricane -- Hurricane Florence hits my area, a metaphor for cancer
August 2018
Awareness and Early Detection Saving Lives--Useful or Useless?
July 2018
Catching Up -- my trip to Chicago and exercising
June 2018
Parenting Through Cancer -- Cheryl Weinstock article for Cancer Today Magazine On-Liner
May 2018
Five Years of Moments -- marks my 5th year having MBC
April 2018
Fear and Hope Competing -- Written for the SHARE website
March 2018
Thankful for a Thankless Job -- I started working again.
February 2018
Survivor
Quick Update -January 29th scan
January 2018
Coping with Cancer in a Modern World
Opening Doors to a New Chapter
December 2017
Stealing Grief
November 2017
My Story Continues - Scan November 6
October 2017
Grateful
I Think I Need an Editor - writing mistakes, why can't I see them?
A Hashtag for Research #kissthis4mbc
September 2017
Count Me In! The Metastatic Breast Cancer Project USA & Update on me--insurance problem solved. #57 infusion of TDM-1.
DENIED
August 2017
Health Update and Genetic Testing Result -- treatment #56 TDM-1
July 2017
Genetics--BRCA 1 and 2 plus PALB2
June 2017
Unbelievably Beautiful! Scan Results.
I Want to be Heard
May 2017
Genetic Testing and Lymphedema
In Defense of Sympathy
April 2017
A poem - Cancer It's Me
Early May Not Be Early Enough For Some Of Us-- Early Metastasis in DCIS
March
My Celebration Continues
February 2017
Just Be Courteous--Don't waste my time
Health Update-The scan results are in.
The Importance of a Clean Home
January 2017
Clotting Challenges-Health Update, treatment #61 overall #44 TDM-1, platelet trouble again
December 2016
Goodbye My Jet
Death Be Not Proud, a book and a look at alternative medicine
November 2016
Another Happy Birthday - 52 years of living!
October 2016
Hardships of the Financial Kind -- perhaps bankruptcy
My October Surprise -- results of latest scan
Sept 2016
Real Breast Cancer Awareness
1,800 Miles of Summer
August 2016
*Moonshots All Around, Part II Data Sharing
July 2016
*Moonshots All Around, Part I/ The National Cancer Moonshot Initiative
June 2016
*The Results are In! Scan day and Infusion #34 of TDM-1 (Kadcyla)
*Oligometastatic Disease - a chance to live longer
May 2016
*Cancer Research Month Ends - Metastatic Research needed, Treatment #50, TDM-1 #33
*"Death Always Wins", When Breath Becomes Air -- a book by Dr. Paul Kalanithi
April 2016
*Spring Break -- from cancer Part II, Azalea Festival, Airlie Garden Party
*Metsiversary -- 3 years!
March 2016
* I Don't Want to Regret - My Children and Life
*Surprises and Sunshine - Healthline's Best Metastatic Breast Cancer Blogs of 2015
February 2016
*Just Happy - scan results February 15th
January 2016
*Memories of Friends - Sometimes what seems impossible is possible--Sharon L. Hutchens.
*You're Gonna Die Anyway -- Hoping this will change.
December 2015
*Our Immune System and Cancer
*Letter to my Email Subscribers/HTML messing up my feed! - Email updates not working. On December 29th, I learned my efforts to fix my subscriber email problem worked!
*Inevitable Change/Treatment #42, TDM-1 #25
November 2015
*Flipping for Fifty-One -- Birthday!!--Treatment #41 TDM-1 #24
*Respecting Life Gone Missing - a map of religion after Paris, France terrorist attack.
*Me and the Machine - my experience with Stereotactic Radiotherapy--Cyber-Knife
October 2015
*Cyber-Knife to the Rescue!
*Changing the Conversation about Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness--It's About Time MBC Campaign
*The Other "C" Word- an update--Stereotactic Radiotherapy/Cyber-Knife
September 2015
*Few Words - A poem for everyone who has lost a loved one.
*What is the point of it anyway? The meaning of Life vs Life has meaning. Losing a pet.
August 2015
*The Oldest Person that Ever Lived/Possible Progression -Treatment #23 of Kadcyla, Platelets 90,000,
*Update on Platelets and Infusion #22 of Kadcyla-- Platelet count 88,000 up from 64,000.
July 2015
*Thrombocytopenia--a big word for a huge problem
My Platelets are LOW—Up-date treatments #37/TDM-1 #20
*Eyebrow Tattooing and Eyelash Growing - the final session plus using Careprost to grow lashes
June 2015
*Mammograms At Age 40 or 50?
*Expectations - Scan results and treatment delayed. Nurse Navigators and communication with medical staff not always what it should be.
May 2015
*Low Platelets (Blood Tests) and Treatment Update #36, TDM-1 #19/ Blood Work Details--reading a blood test result Platelets in trouble-reduced dose of TDM-1 Treatment #35 was infusion only
April 2015
*Spring Break - from cancer, Update of #14 - #17 TDM-1 and #31 - #34 treatments
The Azalea Festival's Garden Party with Pictures/Cancer does define me.
March 2015
*My Eyebrow Tattoos
*A Blogger's Goodbye Post
February 2015
*To Tattoo or Not To Tattoo/Electrolysis and Laser Hair Removal
*The Well Wishers in Community Service - Remembering Treatment #29/TDM1 #12
January 2015
*Burning Feet/Scan Results - Treatment #30/TDM1 #13 Neuropathy
*Cancer In The News
December 2014
Review 2014 -Treatment#28, #29 TDM1- #11, #12
November 2014
November Project For My Kids -Treatment #27, TDM1-10
October 2014
The Green Mile -MRI of brain
Scans/Grapefruit Treatment #25, #26 TDM1-#8, #9
Losing Time - Poem
September 2014
Set the Peckers Free and Other Nonsense
UpDate -Treatment #23/#24 TDM1 #6, #7
August 2014
Love Life
It's Complicated-Cancer That Is
July 2014
Dancing with NED -Treatment #22/ TDM1 #5
Scan Results
The 30% Club
Never Mind Doc -Treatment #21/TDM1 #4
June 2014
New Oncologist Eventually -Treatment #20/ TDM1 #3
Good Attitude Stay Positive
May 2014
T-DM1 #2-Treatment #19
Beginning T-DM1 (Kadcyla) #1 Treatment #18
April 2014
Possible Progression
Supernatural and Coincidence - Treatment #17
March 2014
A Gift -Treatment 16
How Perjeta and Herceptin Work -Treatment #15
February 2014
Radiation, Incurability
Herceptin and Perjeta Only-Treatment #14
January 2014
Pleading with Cancer - A poem
Scans Reviewed -Chemo #13
December 2013
Pictures of Finished Quilts
Desolution of Smaug - Review of Movie From Perspective of Cancer Patient
Scans reviewed Jan 13th-Chemo 12
Lymphedema Explained-Chemo#11
November 2013
Cancer Takes Slowly- 49th birthday
Chemo #10 Cancer Stable
October 2013
A Child's Pain - story of my youngest
Next CAT-Chemo #9
Breast Slang - It's October
Stage IV Cancer Now What? What would you do
Chemo #8/Treatments, Tumor Markers, Herbs
September 2013
Vein, Folliculitis, Fingernails
How a CAT scan works-Chemo #7
No energy and Never Ending Side Effects-Chemo #6
All is stable/A parent with cancer-Chemo #5
Grief and Side-Effects-Chemo #4
The Port, The Wig, and Learning to Cope-Chemo #3
A journey/ Nah, A nightmare is more like it!-Chemo #2
Wow, I didn't expect all this.
The new me sucks-Chemo #1
The Back Story - Part II
August 2013
The Back Story - Part I
No comments:
Post a Comment