Gemzar

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

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

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