Check Your Sanity at the Door
Brain metastases is a new world, and I probably need to explain better for readers that don’t know as much since I am bouncing all over and my brain is just being unsettled (expected right? It has stuff growing in it, of course it is going to be a little all over the place). I may have attempted to get out of driving Fifi the RV to the shop (*cough cough* YOU (meaning me in a statement to Mike) are going to let the woman with...
The Waiting Game
It appears there won’t be bacon. I assumed my hospital had Cyberknife, but it does not. My choice is SRS. No screws in the skull, just a plastic mask to hold my face down (loads of Valium PLEASE). After the week and a half to see the radiologist we now found out it could take 3-4 weeks for insurance to even approve the procedure. My tumors are considered small, but this is ridiculous. Should a patient wait 5 weeks to get brain...
5 Things Not to Say to Someone With Metastatic Breast Cancer
In honor of metastatic breast cancer awareness day (October 13), here are 5 things not to ask someone with metastatic breast cancer: 1. When will you be done with treatment? The answer is never. We will be in treatment until we die. Even if the magical NED status comes. Once you have stage IV breast cancer you have circulating cancer cells in your bloodstream that have to be kept in check. The average lifespan is 3 years after...
My Husband is Buying me Bacon
Only because when I think of brain radiation I think of Beth and her bacon, (<– she posts about it at that link). She is hilarious and live tweeted the whole thing. <3 I have 3 brain metastasis (breast cancer tumors in my brain). I don’t have a consult with the radiologist until the 16th though, not super happy about that. PET-CT is tomorrow. The treatment for the rest of my body will be determined by the PET-CT...
Who Wants a Free TV?
Yeah, why not keep the title simple. Did I get your attention? I get offered a lot of random and odd and boring items to try out because I blog about breast cancer. I really try to limit product stuff on here, but when it involves a TV and money going to an organization that is in the breast cancer alliance (that I am always hounding about) my ears perk up. For every pink TCL Roku TV™ sold during the month of October, $50 will be...