Shoot
Shoot is the Utah word for sh**. I got my tumor marker today and it is going in the wrong direction. I had hoped a Perjeta and Herceptin cocktail added to the Taxotere would really kick the cancer in the nose… Tumor markers usually need to follow a trend to be deemed useful (if they go up, they do it steadily or ongoing). I am due for my PET-CT in a couple of weeks, so that will ultimately be the guide. Mine have historically...
Back to Reality
Nothing like sitting in a chemo chair less than 4 days after snorkeling with beautiful fish in tropical waters for a big dose of reality. Don’t get my wrong, I am grateful that I have a medical team that supports my wild ambitions of traveling and seeing as much of the world and as many beautiful places as I can before my ticking clock decides my time is up. I flew home Tuesday evening. After we loaded onto our plane in Atlanta...
Life on da Island
We have been laying back and living island style for a week now (luckily we still have a half a week before we go home! Woohoo!). Usually we have less than a week when we go to beautiful places like this and then aren’t ready to go home when it is time to get on the plane. I am much less bummed! Hehe. Maybe I will be when it is time to leave. We miss our puppies though, we have a puppy-cam, so when our puppy sitter isn’t...
Mets Matters in Utah
It matters everywhere else too, but I live in Utah. I have been working on an event that was funded by a grant from Pfizer through Heal Courageously. Pfizer has been working on being more involved with metastatic breast cancer awareness, which I appreciate. A (now) friend at Pfizer had mentioned she would really like to see an event in Utah for bloggers (of all shapes and sizes) where we had a really fun activity and also spread the...
Meh, Just One More, Pshhhh
Funny when one more brain tumor isn’t a big deal, but in some circumstances, it certainly could be worse. My oncologist moved up my brain MRI because I am fussing about the fact that we aren’t treating my brain right now. This stresses the tar out of me, but I also know that we have options on keeping my brain stable outside of chemo (radiation is the preferred treatment). I also know I don’t have a lot of options...