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Some Girls Prefer Carnations: Sprung from my tower
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations. Saturday, May 24, 2014. Sprung from my tower. This morning my neutrophils were 2280, which is over twice as high as they needed to be! That must be some kind of powerful bone marrow meditation I invented. I must admit, I feel a bit like a rockstar, which is funny considering I didn't actually do anything. Thank you, everyone, for the well-wishes that helped me achieve this goal! I feel like Rapunzel when she escaped from her tower, singing:. Just smell the grass! Thank you f...
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations: Am I? Can I?
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations. Friday, April 17, 2015. I found myself at the Oncology clinic every day this week for iron infusions. This is because my hemoglobin and iron were dreadfully low at my chemo appointment on Monday. Dr. Oncologist said that I'd lost two units of blood since she'd last seen me! To sit with her so that I could go get my treatments. The coordination kinda stressed me out. Reason 2: The waiting room. Oh, the oncology waiting room. I have blogged about the waiting room befor...This ...
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations: February 2015
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations. Monday, February 9, 2015. Are nasty, so it's better to suffer a bit of heart damage than to risk the potential consequences of ceasing the treatment. That led me to a question about prognosis. A few people at work have asked me about it, and I haven't known what to tell them. My prognosis is technically "poor" because the best evidence suggests that I had (have? It was another great trip with a whole pile of good news. I hope I can stay on this trajectory for a long while.
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations: Fitness and Cancer
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations. Obviously it's important to stay physically fit, no matter who you are. But if you are a cancer patient or survivor, it is particularly important. Maintaining a healthy weight for your body could improve your prognosis, both by helping you cope with the side effects of treatment and by decreasing the chance for recurrence. Walking to chemotherapy: Blue machine- puke machine. Walking in my neighborhood in the spring, 1 month after mastectomy: Beauty. Biking to work in the rai...
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations: The last goodbye
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations. Tuesday, January 6, 2015. He picked me up just after 8am. I tossed my snowpants in the cab just in case we had to hike out of a snow-filled ditch. Once we hit the interstate he disclosed that the southbound traffic had been plugged up earlier, but hopefully it's cleared now? It's fitting that just as my Cancer year is winding down, Dad has found a new job. He starts on Monday. Congratulations, dad! I'm going to miss them. 3. Today's appointment with Dr. Surgical Oncologi...
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations: November 2014
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations. Sunday, November 23, 2014. It's a perfect time to write some thank-you notes. The girls are at a mindfulness for children yoga class (thank you, 100 miles to nowhere, for making that possible! So I found a spot at a nearby coffee shop. I only wish I had more time. It's going by too quickly. Always does. Hope you are enjoying your Sunday! Tuesday, November 18, 2014. In the meantime, cancer can eat my dust. I hope it chokes on it. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Short-sleeved cott...
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations: Gone
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations. Wednesday, January 28, 2015. There's a lot of mental preparation you go through to get your game face on for a PET scan, and now I had to pause the game. Ack! But I'll forgive them because in the scheme of things it was no big deal. Needless to say, my MIL and I went out to breakfast anyway. I had a short stack of comfort carbs, and I let almost the entire globe of butter melt into the stack. PET scan scheduling people can suck it. How was your Christmas? Mobile, but as chil...
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations: "I never mowed in March before"
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations. Friday, March 30, 2012. I never mowed in March before". I fear that so much discussion of weather will betray my midwestern origins, but daily I am awed by spring 2012. Is it a heightened awareness because of the incredible transition that I made between this March and the last? No, I don't think so. I think something unusual is indeed in the air. I didn't get out the camera until dusk, but using the sky as back-lighting I was able to acquire a few worthy photos. Lovely post...
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations: Dear Calvin
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations. Monday, March 16, 2015. I hope that you had a wonderful time at your birthday party last weekend! It was so much fun to see you toddling all over the place and babbling about everything. You, as always, were the life of the party, but not in the usual way that that expression is meant. You were the life of the party with your chill demeanor and delightful personality. You had smiles for everyone. You do not yet know the meaning of "stranger danger". Yesterday I was using you...
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations: Something's spreading, and it's not cancer
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Some Girls Prefer Carnations. Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Something's spreading, and it's not cancer. Knowledge of inflammatory breast cancer is spreading. For my birthday, my mom sent me the New Mexico Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) Awareness Proclamation. Framed. Great job, mom! On my birthday, my cousin knuckle-bumped with the Governor of Nebraska as he handed over an IBC Awareness Proclamation for that flat, I mean great, state. You rock, Bec! And that I'm a fast typist. Blogging isn't an enormo...
