Timeline

The fact that the newest post shows first confuses some people, so I will try to put the posts in the order of old to new here when I remember:

December 30, 2010 – Lumps and Bumps – How I found out
December 31, 2010 – I Got Breast Cancer for My 31st Birthday
January 1, 2011 – Quiet Time
January 2, 2011 – Fixing Up a Bathroom
January 3, 2011 – Huntsman Here I Come – Scheduled surgical consult
January 3, 2011 – Bad Cancer Cells, Naughty Cells – Found out what kind I have
January 5, 2011- The Cancer Weight Loss Program, God and Hair
January 6, 2011- It Takes a Village
January 9, 2011 – A Taste of Normal
January 11, 2011 – Researching Breast Reconstruction
January 12, 2011 – Pre-Appointment Jitters
January 13, 2011 – Poked and Prodded – First Huntsman Cancer Institute visit, setting surgery date and suspicious lymph node
January 15, 2011 – I am Artist Hear Me “Roar”
January 18, 2011 – There is One Size that Doesn’t fit Mandi – Breast MRI appointment
January 19, 2011 – The Road Changed Directions – Found out there was a bump in the road regarding my planned breast cancer treatment
January 20,2011 – Surgery is Back On! – I am going to surgery, meeting my oncologist and planning out my treatment
January 23, 2011 – Hanging Out With Family and Friends
January 25, 2011 – What Kind of Super Power Will I Get? Meeting with Plastic Surgeon, PET/CT Scan
January 27, 2011 – The Kindness of Strangers – PET/CT scan results, new haircut, and surgery time
January 28, 2011 – Surgery is Over! Bilateral Mastectomy
January 30, 2011 – Home From the Hospital
January 31, 2011 – My Husband is Superman & I am Starting a Rap Band
February 2, 2011 – Death to the Spirometer
February 3, 2011 – Open the Curtains Please – Will the Cancer Please Come Out on Stage – received staging information from the post surgery tests
February 4, 2011 – Dealing With Some of the Sad Things on a Good Day
February 7, 2011 – Getting Wiggy With It
February 10, 2011 – “Resting” and Recuperating
February 15, 2011 – The Adventures of Being Drain Free
February 17, 2011 – I am Juicy
February 18, 2011 – Update on Ouchies and Chemo
February 22, 2011 – The Journey Through the Tunnel Ahead
February 25, 2011 – Enthused to be Infused – First chemo treatment
February 26, 2011 – 10 Signs You Are Battling Breast Cancer
March 1, 2011 – Life in the Slow Lane
March 3, 2011 – I am Holey – Issues with my incision
March 7, 2011 – Adventures in the Dark at Huntsman
March 11, 2011 – Chemo Numero Dos – Second chemo treatment
March 12, 2011 – Being Crafty – My Hope, Optimism, Love Bracelet
March 13, 2011 – Hair, to Mohawk to Bald – Hairloss from chemo
March 17, 2011 – Goodbye Coffee
March 19, 2011 – Ode to My Husband
March 22, 2o11 – Fevers and Races
March 25, 2011 – Third Time’s the Charm – Third chemo treament
March 27, 2011 – Life is Charming
March 29, 2011 – Surgery Surprise! – Last minute surgery to try to resolve issues with previous surgery
April 2, 2011 – Banana Bread
April 6, 2011 – I Get the Jitters
April 8, 2011 – Telling the Red Devil Goodbye – Final dose of Adriamycin (fourth chemo treatment)
April 12, 2011 – Breast News I Have Had All Week
April 15, 2011 – I am Not a Survivor
April 17, 2011 – What a Beautiful Weekend
April 18, 2011 – Once Upon A Drizzly Monday Morning – Picc line and IV antibiotics
April 19, 2011 – Genetic Mutations and My Soapbox – Tested negative for BRCA1 and BRCA2
April 22, 2011 – Smoothie Finger Paintings – First Taxol Treatment – Fifth chemo treatment
April 24, 2011 – The Cost of Breast Cancer
April 26, 2011 – 90 Going on 31
May 1, 2011 – Getting an Altitude Adjustment
May 6, 2011 – Taxol Number Two – Sixth chemo treatment
May 7, 2011 – The Elemonators at the Race for the Cure
May 12, 2011 – My Bags Are Packed
May 13, 2011 – Just Call Me Queen of Surgery – Breast expander removed
May 17, 2011 – Taking a Break
May 20, 2011 – The End is Near – Seventh chemo treatment
May 23, 2011 – Fixing What Has Been Undone
May 25, 2011 – Waking Up From the Fog
May 27, 2011 – Certified Numero Uno Bra Stuffer Extraordinaire
May 27, 2011 – Chemo Has Been Canceled – Final Taxol canceled based on neuropathy
June 2, 2011 – Hello Menopause, Not So Nice to Meet You
June 3, 2011 – For the Sake of My Sanity – Eighth chemo treatment
June 9, 2o11 – Making Lemonade
June 12, 2011 – Baldy McBalderton
June 15, 2011 – I Didn’t Take a Picture
June 21, 2o11 – My Toes Rejoice!
June 25, 2011 – Home Sweet Home – First lat flap reconstruction
June 29, 2011 – A Darker Shade of Bald – First signs of hair growing
July 2, 2011 – Summer is Here!
July 12. 2011 – I’ve Got the Surgical Drain Blues
July 18, 2011 – Back in the Saddle Again – Back to work
July 24, 2011 – Goodbye Gus, Goodbye
July 27, 2011 – Sharks With Laser Beams – Radiation planning
August 5, 2011 – An Artist At Work
August 10, 2011 – Zap Zap – Radiation
August 16, 2011 – Aren’t I the Lucky One?
August 19, 2011 – Fabulous Top Friday
August 23, 2011 – One Foot Forward
August 30, 2011 – A Long Time
September 7, 2011 – Skin is Overrated but Magical Foam is Not
September 11, 2011 – Life is Too Short
September 19, 2011 – El Fin – Radiation treatment completed
September 25, 2011 – Telling Cancer Goodbye
September 27, 2011 – Everyone Deserves an A+
October 8, 2011 – Nothing Says “Normal”Like New York
October 12, 2011 – My World is Different
October 13, 2011 – The Misadventures of Being Mandi – Adventures traveling with breast expanders
October 18, 2o11 – Keep on Keeping On
October 23, 2011 – Riding the Merry-Go-Round
October 31, 2o11 – I Quit
November 9, 2o11 – This is Why I am Not an Actress
November 12, 2011 – It is Funny How Things Work
November 29, 2011 – Just Another Day in Paradise
December 5, 2011 – Tis the Season
December 13, 2011 – My Free Boob Job
December 19, 2011 – Too Late
December 30, 2011 – Happy Cancerversary! – Latissimus flap reconstruction number 2
December 31, 2011 – Happy Birthday to Me and Welcoming a New Year
January 3, 2012 – The Cranky to Pain Ratio
January 7, 2012 – The Reign of the Surgery Queen
January 10, 2012 – The Lifespan of a Breast Cancer Blog
January 21, 2012 – Never Say Never
January 31, 2012 – Check Ins and Ups and Downs
February 14, 2012 – Lumpy Boobs in a Post Mastectomy World
February 24, 2012 – Living Like I am Living
March 6, 2012 – Life is the Bees Knees
March 11, 2012 – A Trip Back to Cancertown
March 25, 2012 – The Bushwacker
April 7, 2012 – Sweet Sensations
May 5, 2012 – A Pain in The Neck
May 10, 2012 – Radioactive Urine
May 16, 2012 – If I Said This Was Easy You Would Call Me a Liar
June 4, 2012 – Strange Anniversaries
June 26, 2012 – Advice on Taking Care of a Patient After a Mastectomy or Breast Reconstruction
July 7, 2012 – It Ain’t Easy Being Cheesy
August 10, 2012 – Gucci or Armani?
August 15, 2012 – Finding the Silver Lining
August 29, 2012 – A Woman Needs Her Hobbies
September 20, 2012 – Time Keeps on Slippin’ Into the Future
October 7, 2012 – Exercise and Books
November 21, 2012 – The Moments and The Adventures
December 17, 2012 – Dear 14 Year Old Me
December 30, 2012 – Operation Mandi’s Birthday Wish
January 2, 2013 – Team Awesome
February 16, 2013 – My Pessimist and My Optimist Are Fighting
February 22, 2013 – Tingling Spidey Senses
March 28, 2013 – Asking for Help and Buying Houses
June 4, 2013 – Angelina Jolie, a Deep Breath and Life as I Know It
July 12, 2013 – Braaaaiiinnnsss
August 7, 2013 – Positively Positive
August 21, 2013 – A No-Boob Mammogram
August 30, 2013 – Clarification and a Cough
September 10, 2013 – 2013, The Year of the S cans
September 17, 2103 – Pesty McPesterton
October 9, 2013 – Where There is a Wheeze There is a Way
November 6, 2013 – The Seasons Are Changing
December 30, 2013 – Three Years
January 16, 2014 – Being Someone’s Superhero
January 27, 2104 – Glowingsss – PET-CT Numero Dos
January 28, 2014 – No News is Good News
February 21, 2014 – Put on a Happy Face
April 19. 2014 – YOLO! (Yes, I Really Just Said That)
May 12, 2104 – A Pink Ribbon for You, and One for You
May 27, 2014 – Enjoy the Ride and Eat Some Cookies
July 17, 2014 – Life is Awesome
July 25, 2014 – Estrogen, Sweet Sweet Estrogen
August 7, 2014 – Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
September 30, 2014 – Unpleasant Surprises – Found spot on spine, scheduling PET-CT #3
October 7, 2014 – Welcome to Mets Town USA – Diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer
October 9, 2014 – The Merry-Go-Round
October 14, 2014 – The Pokings of the Spine – Spine biopsy
October 15, 2014 – Confusorbeams
October 21, 2014 – One Does Not Simply Lose Mandi’s Biopsy – Sort of biopsy results, officially mets, plan in place
October 24, 2014 – What to do With Mandi’s Estrogen?
November 2, 2014 – Shopping and Mutant Breast Cancer Cells
November 7, 2014 – Pew Pew Pew Radiation Complete
November 11, 2014 – Ode to My Ovaries
November 24, 2014 – Cancer Sucks, Let’s Make Pie
November 28, 2014 – Hello Menopause. Nice to Meet You – Oophorectomy
December 3, 2014 – Dogs on the Bed
December 9, 2014 – Ch-ch-changes
December 13, 2014 – Late Night Phone Calls PET-CT #4 results
December 19, 2014 – My Clavicle and I Can’t be Friends
December 30. 2014 – Year Four
January 7, 2015 – I am the 2% (or 8%?)
January 16, 2015 – Just Keep Swimming
January 21, 2015 – Confusion is Best Served Cold
January 30, 2015 – Let There be Chemo – Started Taxotere, Perjeta and Herceptin
February 8, 2015 – On Taxotere, On Perjeta, On Herceptin
February 16, 2015 – MD Anderson, More Tumors and Adventures in Texas – Seeking a second opinion at MD Anderson in Texas
February 21, 2015 – Toxic – Second Perjeta, Herceptin & Taxotere
February 25, 2015 – Port-ed
March 1, 2015 – Stomp Out Breast Cancer – Live from Stage IV
March 9, 2015 – Big Data, Pink Ribbons, and Racing for the Cure
March 13, 2015 – Accessing a PowerPort for the First Time – Third Perjeta, Herceptin & Taxotere
March 21, 2015 – Mo Butta, Jewels and Tea
March 27, 2015 – Honored to be Honorary
April 3, 2o15 – If Perjeta Were a Person I Would Hug It – Found out that I now only have lung tumors, everything else got knocked out by chemo
April 12, 2015 – Whack a Mole
April 17, 2015 – Living with Mets Conference Style
May 2, 2015 – Jaws, The Mouth Edition
May 10, 2015 – Mandi Got Hair, Flying High and the Big Race
May 15, 2015 – Chemo Land – Infusion #6 Taxotere/Perjeta/Herceptin
June 1, 2015 – No Disassemble Mandi 5
June 18, 2015 – Finding Hope
June 22, 2015 – Dragging my Dad Down a River of Fun
June 26, 2015 – Taxotere Numero 8
July 11, 2015 – Fifi, The Police and the Injections of Doom
July 17, 2015 – NED and I can’t be Friends
August 5, 2015 – Anxious and Paranoid
August 7, 2015 – Margin of Error
August 11, 2015 – Palliative Care and Dancing in the Rain
August 24, 2015 – The Next Chapter
August 28, 2015 – An Unfortunate Trend
Sep 23, 2015 – A Trip of a Lifetime
October 2, 2015 – The Other Side of Pink
October 7, 2015 – My Husband is Buying me Bacon – Brain metastasis
October 13, 2015 – 5 Things Not to Say to Someone with Metastatic Breast Cancer
October 16, 2015 – The Waiting Game
October 21, 2015 – Check Your Sanity at the Door
October 23, 2015 – This Roller Coaster
November 3, 2015 – Picture this, More Support for Advanced Breast Cancer
November 8, 2015 – Sinking
November 11, 2015 – If it’s so Wrong, It has to be Right – SRS for brain tumors
November 16, 2015 – The Queen Reigns On
November 24, 2015 – Counting my Spoons Before they are Hatched
November 30, 2015 – Mike Responds for National Caregivers Month
December 6, 2015 – Insomniac starting Xeloda and Tykerb
December 13, 2015 – Xeloda and Tykerb for my Brain Metastases
December 28, 2015 – Banana!
January 7, 2016 – Worse, Worser, oh Sh** Liver mets
January 12, 2016 – Ch-ch-changes, Sadness and Hope
January 13, 2016 – Head in the Dirt
January 15, 2016 – All Clear-ish
January 20, 2016 – Ouch, That’s my Spine!
January 22, 2016 – Chemo Sads – Taxotere, again
January 30, 2016 – Let’s Talk About Pain Baby
February 11, 2016 – Taxotere Yoga
March 2, 2016 – Meh, Just one More? Pssshhh – New brain tumor
March 9, 2016 – Mets Matters in Utah
March 18, 2016 – Life on da Island
March 25, 2016 – Back to Reality – Perjeta & Herceptin back on
March 28, 2016 – Shoot
April 7, 2016 – Burning Man-di
April 13, 2016 – Amish Jam
April 14, 2016 – Halfway There
April 19, 2016 – More than Meets the Eye
May 5, 2016 – 3 More Weeks, Another Chemo
May 6, 2016 – Tumor Markers are Not my Friend
May 28, 2016 – Chemo, Fifi on the Loose, Decisions to be Made
June 16, 2016 – June, Hey June, Don’t Let Me Down
June 28, 2016 – Fear is the Mind Killer
June 30, 2016 – Pink Houses in Key West
July 2, 2016 – Don’t Panic
July 7, 2016 – Reviews, Scans and Pokes?
July 15, 2016 – Let’s Call a Pig a Pig
July 19, 2016 – It’s a Pig
July 27, 2016 – Seattle, Home and an Ommaya Reservoir
August 1, 2o16 – Oh My I Have an Ommaya!
August 11, 2016 – Chemo in my Braaaaiiiinnns
August 20, 2016 – Branches Around my Heart
August 28, 2016 – Brain Chemo, Take 2
September 8, 2016 – All Angle Attack
September 21, 2016 – This is the Kind of News we Like to Hear!
September 30, 2016 – CSF you are Testing me!
October 26, 2016 – Wearing a Jane and Monthly Check-ups
November 1, 2016 – Progression You are the Darndest Thing Xeloda is fired, cancer in liver and pleural space
November 9, 2016 – Life Can be so Draining
November 15, 2016 – My Very Own Award! (Sort of)
November 30, 2016 – Doxil Bandits
December 12, 2016 – Wheezy McCheezy
December 19, 2016 – Brrraaaaiiinnnsss
January 3, 2017 – 6 Years of the Beast
January 13, 2017 – Hospice or Navelbine and Herceptin – Bad progression. Brain and body. Doctors recommended hospice, I asked to try treatment for a little longer.
January 23, 2017 – Buying More Time
February 18, 2017 – Hiding Under a Rock
March 1, 2017 – Another Day Another Dolla r
March 18, 2017 – What Happens When Your Lung Collapses?
April 13, 2017 – Vacation in the Keys – Mandi’s last blog entry
April 19, 2017 – Live Forever
April 25, 2017 – Mandi’s Story – A documentary by Susan G. Komen
May 6, 2017 – Walking in the Fog
May 13, 2017 – What Would Mandi Do?
May 25, 2017 – Heavy Heart and Fuzzy Dogs
June 10, 2017 – The World Keeps Spinning
June 25, 2017 – Insomnia and the Evil Frisbee
July 13, 2017 – Grief is a Bully
July 30, 2017 – Ashes in the Forest
August 14, 2017 – Camping in Gooseberry
August 31, 2017 – Anniversary of our Love
October 9, 2017 – A Ray of Light Through the Dark Clouds
January 18, 2018 – Holiday Roller Coaster
June 28, 2018 – My Shadow

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