Yesterday was the full moon and my brain-zapping afternoon. The first half of the procedure, these were my breath mantras: “goodbye, brain mets” or “goodbye, cancer” on the in-breaths “thanks for not causing me problems” is what I was thinking on the out-breaths The second half, I changed them to: “glowing radiant cleansing cleansing light” […]

Today is the day for stereotactic radiosurgery at Albany Medical Center. I am loaded up with anti-seizure medication and steroids, and will get more steroids and Xanax before I get my head nestled into the “head hammock” (nicer than calling it the rigid-plastic-mesh face cage) for my 2+ hrs of radiation beams. I have to […]

I had an IV in my left wrist for chemo on Friday. I had to move my watch, which I check way too often, to my right wrist. So I decided I needed a little reminder for my left wrist:

At our appointment with the oncologist this morning, we put our heads together and juggled the brain-zapping procedure (1/15), chemo on days 1 and 8 of a 21-day cycle, and our planned last-minute trip to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (1/25-1/30 if it all works out). Stir in some anxiety on everyone’s part about […]

Last Thursday & Friday we met with the neurosurgeon and the radiation oncologist (at Albany Medical Center) to find out more about my brain situation and plan my stereotactic radiosurgery. It really does look like an ideal treatment for relatively small brain metastases (such as mine). I am the type of patient for whom this […]

I am learning a bit about this organization Sharsheret and was really happy to watch this video interview of the founder…and note the date it was done: December 2010.

Last Friday, a week ago, I got home at 5 after the CT scan, bone scan, and signing up for the trial, went for a walk, and my phone rang at 5:39 with a call from “RESTRICTED.”  It was my oncologist calling from home to say that the CT scan showed spots in my brain. […]