I got good news today at my oncologist’s office—my brain MRI yesterday turned up no new spots of cancer (in 4 months—my last MRI was June) and the ones zapped in May continue to cooperatively die and fade away. So that is really great. I don’t need more of that right now. Too much else to deal […]
Month: October 2015
Trials (and tribulations)
We always figured a trial (of a PARP inhibitor) would be my next step after Eribulin but with the headache & steroids I am probably not eligible for many trials–usually steroid use indicates uncontrolled brain stuff and researchers don’t want those patients in their trials. I am tapering off the steroids but it will be […]
Day 7 of PE
I am feeling a bit better as of Friday–a bit more energy, a bit less out of breath. I almost felt like I could try to take a short slow walk. But this is going to be a slow recovery. Today I’ll try to start up with Qi Gong again and just take it easy […]
And the next complication is…
I am now the proud owner of a non-emergency pulmonary embolism event. I have lots of small blood clots in my lungs, since Saturday AM when I woke up even more short of breath than usual and kept running out of energy when, say, walking down the hall to the bathroom. Rapid heart rate too, […]
Bits of news; still in limbo
England was lovely! Here’s more about the trip if you’re interested. I’ve been back a few weeks now and they have been less energetic than my time in England, for sure. I did a decent amount of walking on the trip (along with a LOT of riding the wonderful Tube) but in the last week […]