Picture This: More Support for Advanced Breast Cancer
This past week has been a whirlwind. Literally and figuratively, the world has been spinning around me as I have been battling nausea to the Nth degree and there is a huge windstorm outside right now shaking the house so hard that I may go build a blanket fort and go hide in it with the dogs. For protection, you know… Some of my girlfriend’s and I fulfilled the slumber party of #TheMandiList, my friend was able to arrange...
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...
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...
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...