Oh, cancer. You are such an exhausting prima donna. Go home. Get a day job. Take up fly-fishing. Become a cabbie, maybe? Turn all that energy to something productive, for once. Val had a CT scan Friday. We got the results this morning, and they were not we hoped or, Continue Reading
debrarian
breathing
Val did two rounds of chemo on the trial drug, her white blood count flattening out each time. Then the first scan showed that cancer continued to grow by millimeters. It was decided to ditch the trial and try a different chemo cocktail. It is now two weeks after the Continue Reading
Big Bird
Val is where my heart is. Val, and my dog, and the family I grew up in. And out in the green-smelling woods of this big messy extraordinary world. This is where I keep my heart. I need a lover to define my edges, to draw the shape of my Continue Reading
here we go
A lot of living has been happening. Joyfully not dwelling in cancerland (except for a shadowy whisper of worry, a small wondering, glimpsed now and then at the back of things). Now we are getting out our passports again. A sudden lump above Val’s collarbone has proven malignant. Results of Continue Reading
kind news
January’s mystery nodules have vanished! All else remains stable. Hooray!
Scan results to come Monday,
Scan results will be in on Monday.
scan postponed a bit
Val has a cold, so the Feb 14 scan is being postponed. Stay tuned.
scan goes into overtime
So we saw the oncologist and the upshot was, Val will have another scan in 6 weeks.
to visit Xena
We are still here.
Thanksgiving times two
Fantastic scan news! Everything’s still stable or shrinking! First thing this morning we took a deep breath and met with the doctor for the results of Monday’s scan. These last several months it’s been hard, especially for Val, to shake the uneasiness as we waited to see if the tiny Continue Reading