Hello Menopause. Nice to Meet You.
This isn’t my first brush with menopause. I did a temporary version when I was in chemo, my doctors expected it to be temporary since I was under 35. I have electronic access to my medical records and labs, so when new ones go up I get an email. I didn’t realize my oncologist had ordered a test to check on my menopausal state (measuring estrogen). The results look like I was still pretty pre-menopausal – I guess a 30...
Cancer Sucks, Let’s Make Pie
I took the day off before surgery planning on a super productive day. I need to spend half a day at the DMV. I haven’t moved car registrations, my drivers license still has my old address and I haven’t done all of those lovely DMV tasks since we moved well over a year ago. I needed to run several other errands today. I know… I know… procrastination at it’s finest and I continued to procrastinate. I have...
Ode to My Ovaries
Ok, not really. I am not sure I can write an ode to them, they haven’t done me a lick of good. No kids at my house, just two furballs and an adult male (who is not a kid, because I am pretty sure he is more mature than me at least 50% of the time). For those that know me, I was not really planning on kids before I had cancer. I had a minor moment when I went through temporary menopause during chemo where I freaked out, but other...
Pew Pew Pew Radiation Complete
I want to say the last two weeks have been smooth like ‘butta (‘butta looks way cooler than butter), but they have been interesting to say the least. Last week I was super excited, the worst thing I had going on early in the week was being exhausted and my sore back. By the end of the week my back was feeling great and the only radiation side effect I had going on was being tired (my nausea and reflux were mostly being...
Shopping and Mutant Breast Cancer Cells
As I had mentioned in a previous post, loads of awesome friends and family nominated my for the Live for Pink contest that DownEast Outfitters had going on in October. I was so excited to win! I went on on Channel 4, Good Things Utah with Ginger from Happy Chemo and Klane the CEO from DownEast Outfitters, who was just about the nicest guy you will ever meet. There was one other winner from Utah who also went with me. They are lucky I...
What to do With Mandi’s Estrogen?
The hippity hot topic the last couple of days is my precious estrogen. I met with the OBGYN on Wednesday – that makes 3 days at the hospital this week, WHEW. I guess I should get used to it. I will be there every day next week (but not for several hours each visit like these). He was a dear sweet soul who checked to see if I was healthy enough for an oophorectomy or hysterectomy and talked me through the benefits of what we were...