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
lung
the sunrises, surprises and surmises
oh the vagaries. 3 weeks ago i was in the ER with breathing problems and a fever. not pneumonia, not a pulmonary embolism. no, they say, it’s just the tumors. oh those. dang. i was hoping for something new. it was a saturday and they’d gotten bigger since sunday. the 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
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
kind news
January’s mystery nodules have vanished! All else remains stable. Hooray!
scan goes into overtime
So we saw the oncologist and the upshot was, Val will have another scan in 6 weeks.