Chemo today in record time!

All went well at chemo today–liver enzymes blazingly normal.  For random reasons, I was in and out of there in record time–70 minutes from the front desk to out the front door again.  Cycle 22 completed!  Now I feel a usual amount of icky but will feel better tomorrow.

Back on track / curb cuts

My liver enzymes went back to normal yesterday so I got chemo–we’re calling it day 1 of cycle 22 with a skipped dose on day 8 of cycle 21.  Last week was my unplanned week off of chemo–last Tuesday my enzymes were still too high for the oncologist to be comfortable, so no chemo, and instead, […]

Twitterizing

Blog posts will now be announced on Twitter for the convenience of those of you who use it.  I’m @eharrisbraun and I have only ever posted exactly ONE Tweet.

About the blog

The new look of the blog was forced upon me today by Eric upgrading our WordPress–the 2006 blog theme was no longer available.  Hope you like the new fancier stylings.

Liver enzymes GRRRRRRR

OK, just to catch up, before I retreat into watching a dumb movie: The week after the zap I felt pretty good, all in all, despite having four sore bumps on my head.  Eric left for Ecuador to see his parents and my mom arrived shortly thereafter (she picked up our car at the airport). […]

Zap all done…at least this one

Tuesday was all day at Albany Med, but most of it was easy.  We got there super early–6:35am.  Getting the frame “installed” was weird but dealable, and having it on my head all day was annoying and weird and eventually made me a bit headachy, but was not too bad. We had brought five movies […]

Calming down, looking up

It’s Saturday afternoon and all is quiet around here.  Which is good, because the three H-Bs in residence are beat!  All day yesterday and until 2 today we were spending time at Simon’s Rock learning about their new Bard Academy program for 9th and 10th graders, in which Jesse is now (as of this afternoon) […]

New alphabetic possibilities

New alphabetic possibilities So with my current life I can almost pull this progression off: P PT PTT APPT SAPPT (pee, physical therapy, prothrombin time–a test of clotting ability that I actually don’t have to do–yet another medical appointment, and that would be enough for me and my energy would be sapped!)

Me vs. morphine

The narrative burden I’ve given myself with this blog can feel kind of hard to carry along sometimes, and the last two weeks have been like that.  I have been busy with appointments and imaging procedures, and very tired, and not all here brain-wise to boot. Here is a quick catch-up summary for those following […]