Foods I’ve been eating lately: Kale & fruit smoothies every morning: kale from our garden, 1/2 banana, 1/4 cup frozen mango, juice from half a lime, 2 oz homemade kefir, 2 oz OJ, big scoop of glutamine powder for neuropathy, 1 tsp flax-seed oil for omega 3s. Gradually adding more & more kale. I think […]
Author: ekhb
Accumulated observations: creativity
Seems like creativity/making something/working with my hands is something I use to lower my stress level. This winter Will & I took a metal jewelry-making course. Although I felt icky from chemo most days I went, it was great fun. We used the lost-wax casting method to make bronze jewelry and then did some simple […]
Another EXCITING lunch picture!
So this is the kind of thing I try to eat for lunch and dinner these days: spinach salad, black bean soup, sauteed squash, sauteed mushrooms, and roasted new potatoes with homemade ají (Ecuador-style hot sauce). Glass of water not pictured. Of course I did snack on some whole-wheat crackers earlier in the day… Tomorrow […]
August, September
I think a month is quite long enough to procrastinate about updating my blog. Let’s see, the initial roadblock to blog-fluidity was the trip we took to the Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment in Skokie, Illinois at the very end of July. The multi-specialist, almost-6-hour visit was full of Stuff to Think About. We […]
Good scans
Today’s oncologist appointment was cheery. We went over my CT scan and MRI from last Friday and things are looking pretty good again. The best news is that the one remaining brain lesion is significantly smaller (how significantly, I will leave up to those of you who can calculate the volume of an irregular ovoid […]
Latest cancer book: Radical Remission
This book came out of a qualitative research project/dissertation by a psychologist who got interested in cancer patients with unexpectedly good outcomes–either remissions or many more years of survival than expected. She interviewed lots of people about what they did to enable their “radical remissions”–and despite these sometimes being called “spontaneous remissions,” they don’t seem […]
Midsummer update
I’ve finished my ninth round of chemo now and it continues to be quite bearable. Maybe the IV Vitamin C and the acupuncture I get every week a day or two after the chemo are doing some good! The anti-osteoporosis shot I get every month laid me a bit low for a few days last […]
Things go on, with reminders that there is no certainty…
…at least not about my health. Or rather my Health. Friday before last was one of those days when I had to admit my life is a little bit more complicated than most. It was time for another brain MRI and CT scan (chestabdomenpelvis, as the CT techs say it). The schedule for these is […]
Nothin’ but an updated picture
Me by the garden in the meadow grasses (watching Eric sift dirt)
Late-May update
Three weeks between updates seems a little much. However, there is not much new to say–things are going along pretty well, with no spice-rack installation under the bathroom sink as yet. I am in the second week of round 7 of chemo. The afternoon of chemo and the day after, I am tired and feel […]