cancer – day 136
Aarrrrggggrrrrrrrrhhhhhhh! It is soooo frustrating to try to type when your numb clumsy fingertips don’t function and you can’t see the computer screen because of your failing eyesight!
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cancer – day 135
I finally finished a post from last week when I was reading an old book about a little girl who had bone cancer, a 4% probability of survival, and 18 months of chemotherapy. I don’t know exactly how the blog works and if it tells people when an older post has been modified or added to, so I thought I’d […]
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Early evening Back to being so tired now that I can’t stand up. Talking on the phone makes me need a two-hour nap. Thinking is a burden I just can’t seem to muster the oomph to achieve. Fatigue, who knows how bad it really can get. 4AM Wow, sleep is eluding me tonight. (Oh, and the neighbor’s party is still […]
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Ugh, new unpleasant development, not sure what kind of side effect to call this, but I’m developing a gag reflex to swallowing. Exacerbated by swallowing anything non-liquid, i.e., pills. More fun on the Miller Merry-Go-Round. On the up side, with sooooo many pills to take, about all I have time to do and think about is managing that schedule and […]
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All the side effect meds are still kicking my ass, I was only awake maybe two hours today, and I wouldn’t even have made it that long except we had to go back o Fry’s and get a motherboard and pretty much everything else for Mark to build a new computer. We got back, and I didn’t even make it […]
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Nothing much to report, Internet works now but Mark’s home machine doesn’t, and I was too wiped out to go to yoga, so we had a little road trip to Fry’s Electronics (to get me to walk around at least a little) tonight for a new power unit for Mark’s machine. I slept almost the entire day.
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I think all I did was sleep today. Well, that and try to get the stupid cancer calendar working at Tuepelo (coffee place with free WiFi a block away) because we still don’t have Internet at the house, no since Friday or Saturday last weekend. More than one trip, and it’s still not working right. Guess it will have to […]
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The day I’ve been dreading for the past five days is here. Third round of chemo, here we go.
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I have this book my mom bought for me when I was a little kid, it’s called “Michelle,” and the story of it stayed with me my entire life. When I was home this week, I went into my boxes of books and found it and brought it back to Sac with me. I’ve only read a couple chapters so […]
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I have this book my mom bought for me when I was a little kid, it’s called “Michelle,” and the story of it stayed with me my entire life. When I was home this week, I went into my boxes of books and found it and brought it back to Sac with me. I’ve only read a couple chapters so […]
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This is interesting. The Sutter Oncology Center called and asked me if I would be a mentor to a new breast cancer diagnose, Alice. I don’t know if Alice and I are close in age or not, but I told them that of course I’d do it. They confirmed my phone numbers and said they hope she’ll call me, but […]
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Apparently the gauntlet has been thrown down. In expressing the desire to go to my favorite milonga in San Francisco last night, I was told that “you have to suck it up that you can’t do that right now and take better care of your caregiver.” Apparently I’ve been exceedingly selfish in taking care of myself during chemo, and someone […]
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Wow, oh wow. I just found out that Chainalytics, the WHOLE company, is going to do a walk against breast cancer in Atlanta in October, and they’re going to be Team Cynthia Miller. I was speechless. How huge is that? What an amazing gift from so many people. I was just floored to see the slide that Mike (our CEO) […]
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I drove home last night! It was far from comfortable, but I didn’t throw up [yay!]. I was nauseas all night after the drive even though I’d had all three of my nausea meds before I left Sac, but I did make it here and at the moment I’m resting at home in Volcanoville. I spent the morning tidying up […]
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You know, I don’t feel bald. Well, until I rub my head. But when I don’t have a wig, hat, or scarf on, I feel like I still have my hair and it’s just pulled back in a French knot. I wore it that way every day for years teaching dance, and without anything swishing around my face or down […]
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