Goodbye Coffee
For anyone that knows me well, I am a bit of a coffee fanatic. It was my business to keep coffee shops in business my teenage and college years. I love the stuff, I dream about it, I even bought a fancy Keurig coffee maker for my office at work so that I could have the good coffee happiness at my fingertips at all times (which now lives at my house and super awesome Joan bought a replacement to keep in the office so that I could be...
Hair, to Mohawk, to Bald
The hair coming out didn’t quite happen as slowly as I thought it would. It had started Thursday, but my Saturday huge chunks of hair came out all at once. This morning I had to empty the drain 3 times to finish showering (with my short hair even!). It was time. Mike went skiing for the day (he was feeling a bit better from his cold and definitely had some ski passes to use up before the ski season ends). By the time he got home...
Being Crafty – My Hope, Optimism, Love Bracelet
My mom gave my lucky pearls for my breast cancer treatments. I decided that I wanted a lucky custom bracelet also.I pulled out my old jewelry making supplies that have sat neglected for many years. I wanted something to fiddle with other than the computer in my tired to energy to tired rollercoaster I am riding today. The medications have done fairly well so far in managing the nausea, I went in for my Nuelasta shot this morning (my...
Chemo Numero Dos
Something about going to chemo makes me nervous. I am not sure if it is the worry about how I will feel for the next few days or the fact that my hair is gone for certain very soon. I don’t sleep well the night before I go in, but I am really not sure what I am worrying about. The experience of being in the infusion room isn’t too bad, the nurses are the friendliest bunch ever, most of the patients sleep, and I just sit on...
Adventures in the Dark at Huntsman
Mike and I got up super early to head up to the Huntsman Cancer Institute to get me closed up before the day’s appointments began. We were up there before 7 AM. Once we got placed in the procedure room the lights went out everywhere. My initial reaction was that it was just my luck that they wouldn’t be able to do it (after 4 days of stressing and worrying and waiting). Vicki the surgical nurse came in and discovered that...