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13. Stage 4 No Mo

Hello! This post is looong overdue, thanks to a wild couple of months and some unexpected infecciones. As you can see from the title, the biggest news since my last post is that my liver lesion came back benign! They gave me a 95% chance that it was malignant, and it came back benign. Wild,Continue reading “13. Stage 4 No Mo”

12. Livers n Cords (mmm)

Hello everyone, and welcome back. I am exactly one month out from my mastectomy and ALND surgery. My incisions are healing very well, and I have been in for 3 of my 4 expander fills. My remaining pain is limited to the bottom corners of the expanders cutting into muscle and/or areas of my ribs,Continue reading “12. Livers n Cords (mmm)”

11. Chopped

Sliced n diced, slashed, cut, hacked, split, slit, or severed. Any of the above descriptors would probably work to describe how my body feels at the moment. It’s been one week since my double mastectomy and axillary lymph node dissection, and oooo dawggie it’s been a trip. Yesterday was the first day that I’ve feltContinue reading “11. Chopped”

10. Inconclusive

That word! That damn word! We could not be more tired of hearing it. I’ve had yet another few weeks of inconclusive results, this time not to do with my heart, but with my liver. During my very first CT, a large mass was seen in my left liver lobe, so my oncologist had meContinue reading “10. Inconclusive”

9. A/C & Taxol…check!

Hello again all! Thanks for coming back for more BOTB updates n funz (or something like that). I just completed my heavy-hitting chemo infusions and am within a few weeks of surgery (end of February), so I figured it was a good time to blog it up! Everything with my heart is still about theContinue reading “9. A/C & Taxol…check!”

8. Heart Times

Welcome back! It’s been a minute; my apologies. The last 8 weeks or so have somehow both crawled by at a snail’s pace and blown past faster than Micahl J Vegter on his rollerblades. I had an infusion today, so I know that between the steroids and frequent chemo-induced trips to the bathroom, I’ll likelyContinue reading “8. Heart Times”

7. Let’s not “Walk It Off”

Hello out there! It’s been some time since I’ve posted…so many things have happened (I’m pretty sure I say that every time I post, but really this time)! I have lots of updates- some cancer related, some family-related, all wacky and weird. But first, let me start with a story. One time, I pooped myContinue reading “7. Let’s not “Walk It Off””

6. Bald and…Breezy?

Hello everyone! Thanks for coming back to the cancer party. I hope everyone out there in the world is doing well and enjoying the transition from summer to fall. I know we are around here…Colorado can CHILL on the summer temps, please. My new photosensitive skin would really love that. So, the latest around hereContinue reading “6. Bald and…Breezy?”

5. I’ll take the Red Devil with a side of nausea, please

Hello again! I’m 5 days into Cycle 1, Week 1 of chemo. The lovely, wondrous chemo. I guess it makes the most sense to start from the top with Infusion day 1, which was was quite the adventure. My sister was with me and we started bright and early with a 7:30 am check-in toContinue reading “5. I’ll take the Red Devil with a side of nausea, please”

4. Literal Side Boob

Welcome back! As always, thanks so much for caring about me enough to tune in and read about the latest happenings. Today is the last day of my life without having gotten chemotherapy. So that feels weird. But it also somehow feels a lot like any other day. My sister being here this week hasContinue reading “4. Literal Side Boob”