Moving on to the next kind of vanity (part two of four)… Vanity about function: My body doesn’t do what it used to do. One year ago, I jogged three miles with my sister and probably went for a walk later on in the day, too. Back then I was doing interval training most days […]
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Vanities: appearance
I’ve been thinking about vanity a lot lately. I seem to have a lot of it. To me it settles out into some different realms: Vanity about body appearance: from taking steroids for so long, I have chubby cheeks and a more rectangular face without noticeable cheekbones. My face really looks different from before. I was […]
Two years?
Yesterday was the two-year anniversary of when I found out I had stage IV cancer.
Welcome to lymphedema!
In England in late September my left arm started to swell up a bit–mostly it seemed like my hand. This is the arm with the DVT (blood clot) under the collarbone, and thus the arm I’ve been wearing a lymphedema compression sleeve on since early April to try to prevent lymphedema from developing. Lymphedema is […]
Quick update
It’s Sunday afternoon and guess what? I still have pneumonia. (I have to keep reminding myself of this to explain why I am still so, so, so very tired and worn out.) We came home late Thursday afternoon and I keep waiting to notice I’m feeling better, but I don’t notice. I am doing much […]
My very first cancer hospital admission!
Woo hoo! Off on another adventure. (Stage direction: read that with great irony) Tuesday morning when I showed up for chemo I asked the nurse to check my oxygen saturation level because I felt really beat and very short of breath again (since Sunday). It was 89…when 94 & up is what you want to […]
Goings-on at the start of chemo cycle 29
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 […]
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, […]