This week I seem to have one phrase on my mind. It is the expression “it takes a village to raise a child”. I have tried to figure out why it has become so important to me at this time. I think it’s because I’ve spent a fair amount of Read more…
Every day is something new and different than the day before. Just when I think I have a pattern figured out, things change. This part is an update on what is happening with my hair. I officially don’t have any hair from my neck down anymore. I must say that Read more…
Today as I was going in the front door of the cancer centre, I took a mask from the dispenser and tried to move out of the way of the entrance so I would not interfere with others as they walked Through the doors. I knew it would take a Read more…
When I first received my diagnosis, Vic said to me, “we will get through this together” and he has been true to his word. I can’t tell you how many hours he has spent waiting in waiting rooms, parking lots, hospital rooms while I saw doctors and had procedures done. Read more…
I got up Monday and found that I was going to have a most difficult day. I had dreadful digestive issues and spent the whole morning in the washroom and worried about the fact that I was due at the hospital within hours. I have had IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Read more…
I know, but it’s causing me so much worry, pain and stress that I think about it and talk about it a lot. Well, it didn’t take long for almost all of my hair to fall out and what is left seems to be what is going to stay. I Read more…
Five days ago, I was in the shower and handfuls of hair started to fall out. I know that I’ve talked this to death but I just can’t help being so very upset over my hair loss. Both my regular hairdresser and the lovely woman who sold me my wig Read more…
Today we lost my cousin Bev in England to cancer. It was only one short month ago that she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Within days she was in a hospice and now she is gone. As I read through the hundreds of messages on Facebook, the words “gutted”, “speechless”, Read more…
It’s only Wednesday night and already I feel like I’ve been riding a roller coaster for days and it all came down to so many words. It started Monday when I went for my bi-weekly blood tests to assure them that my body was ready for chemo this week. I Read more…
Well, I’m here writing in the middle of the night. Actually it’s now morning but these thoughts woke me from a weird dream in the middle of the night and I finally realized about an hour and a half later that I might as well get up and put it Read more…