This Roller Coaster
When we found out I had metastases to my brain a friend honestly asked if I was going to call it, I told her no, I am not throwing in the towel just yet – and she didn’t mean it in a bad way. If you see me on bad days you may understand why this could be a consideration – when do we call “it?” For me that will be when I am no longer enjoying life. In the meantime, I will ride the roller coaster, even if...
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...
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...
The Other Side of Pink
I tend to remain a bit tight-lipped when pinktober rolls around and a lot of bloggers jump on one bandwagon or another. My first October after diagnosis made my stomach curl. Everywhere I turned there was a reminder of what I had been through. I had just finished radiation, I didn’t have much hair, I was sick, I was tired and I hated the color pink. I appreciate and support that everyone has a voice. I have a voice too, and so I...
A Trip of a Lifetime
It finally happened! The trip to Europe that Mike and I have been putting off for almost 10 years. We have been saying since we initially met that we would go to Europe together and it never quite worked out. Work, money, life always got in the way. I am absolutely blown away by how many friends, family, and people I haven’t met were willing to help us in small and big ways to make this dream a reality. All of you anonymous...