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Here's a video of my grandaughter playing basketball. She's number 5. (Source: The Beast...)
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Some mornings I wake up and my first thought is: I don't feel good. And that's how it continues, until I fall asleep at night. I don't feel good I don't feel good I don't feel good I don't feel good I don't feel good. That discomfort and those words fill the space in my world. There's no room to read or write an email. I can't watch television, or read a book, or answer the phone. I don't feel good I don't feel good I don't feel good, and that's all.I move in a circle .... lying in bed, sitting in the easy chair and then lying on the couch in my bedroom, sitting
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Editing the backlog (Source: auspiciousdragon.net)
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Wire. Lochalsh 2007 (Source: auspiciousdragon.net)
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Copyright © 2008 Patti. Visit the original article at http://www.white-pebble.net/?p=4074.You see this sign all over the place, or you did if you grew up in the Sixties and Seventies. I had no idea that it was the work of a single person. Find out more about it here…
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This morning as I stirred Lu from a late morning slumber with gentle nuzzles and a few pokes and prods I asked "Is there anything I can do to make you happy?" She replied "Ya, tell me your cured and give me back those dreams." "Sure no problem. The GRN163L took care of the myeloma. I just have to go back for a few more weeks to prove it. You'll notice how great I feel and pleased I am. Shall we do some dreaming?"That led to many laughs and lots of scheming and fantasizing about dreams and how to realize them. The gory details of the first week involve mostly emotional trauma. Going back to R
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The post consumer society (Source: auspiciousdragon.net)
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Since this is my last bad Dex night/morning for a while (hopefully forever), I thought I'd post one last 5:30 a.m. blog entry. This way, when I'm feeling better next week and I start thinking, "Oh, my God, I quit one of my cancer treatments and I'm not even in remission. Am I crazy?", I can go back and read this entry and think, "Do I really want to be awake and blogging at 5:30 a.m. on a Saturday?"No. No, I do not. (Source: The Adventures of Cancer Girl)
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Over the last few years I have been exploring the delights of the graphic novel and recently, at my beloved neighbourhood branch of the local library, I stumbled upon a graphic novel called “Cancer Vixen” by a woman named Marisa Acocella Marchetto.
Now, at first glance, me and Marissa couldn’t be more different.
She lives in the heart of the chaos and glamour of NYC. Suffice to say that I do not.
She is a cartoonist for The New Yorker. Not wishing to disappoint, but I am not this.
She is quite clearly heterosexual. Suffice to say that I am not.
She describes herself as a R
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Personal Shopper - StyleFeeder.com (Source: white pebble)
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They said that so far the test is negative for a virus in my mouth. I have no idea what it could be. I sure hope it's not graft vs. host because then I have to up my steroids again.... (Source: debutaunt.com)
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Today was a great day. I suppose everyone deserves one really great day every four years.First of all, it was BEAUTIFUL out today. It got up to around 55 degrees. The way the winter has been, it felt like 80 degrees. We actually got to see the sun.This morning, we celebrated Leap Day by going to Arts and Crafts at my friend Brooke's house, where all the kids made some really hilarious buggy-eyed frog hats. (You know, because frogs leap.) It was one of the cutest crafts we've ever made. Brooke even made frog-themed snacks, such as round, green Rice Krispy treats with Junior Mint eyes. It wa
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Richard had his Mayo appointment about two weeks ago. See previous post for our weather adventures.Dr. Lacy decided to increase Richard's prednisone to 30 mg daily to see if it wold help his appetite as it had in the past. She stopped his dexamethasone completely and continued the Revlimid.Unfortunately, he had again a low level of CMV virus in his blood, so now's he's back on Valcyte for that. His m-spike continues to creep up now 0.8, along with his IgG and freelyte kappa.The good news is that the predisone is helping. He's eating better and actually leaving the house and shopping wh
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My gut was right.
I am fine, says my radiation oncologist and the resident who examined me during my six-month follow-up today. My appointment did turn up something, though: A referral for massage therapy. Not a bad deal.
On Wednesday, I will report for the first of a few massages designed to rehab my left shoulder [...] (Source: my Breast Cancer blog)
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It was pretty surprising when a woman I know to be brilliant, loving, intuitive and knowledgeable remarked to me that she is convinced that the cure for cancer exists, but ?they? won?t release it because of the money that cancer research generates. I remember hearing something like this over 25 years ago from a couple that were from Mexico and owned a couple spas in Canada. They insisted that the cure for cancer had been found in their home town in Mexico but believed someone was keeping it hidden for financial gain. Actually, since then, I have it heard this cancer conspiracy theory expressed
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Copyright © 2008 Patti. Visit the original article at http://www.white-pebble.net/?p=4073.This really cheered up my morning!
CFP: When in danger, call for the US Marines. That?s what CodePink?s Medea Benjamin did
Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, who can turn the air blue when shouting chants against American Marines called out for the Marines in front of Marine Recruiting offices in Berkeley yesterday.
Eamon Kelley, the young Marine who is featured in Move America Forward?s TV commercial that ran on Fox News earlier this week, could hardly believe his own ears when Benjamin called on the
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Since the weekend is here (yay!)--and since Nick posted such a solid blog yesterday (thanks, babe! I'm making you a regular)--I figured we could use a little silliness today. Lately I've been finding myself doing things that shock me, things... (Source: Life with Cancer)
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The greatest month ever, at least in the last two years since I have been blogging full-time.
Here in this blog alone, I was off to a slow start because I got back from a real vacation on 4th Feb. You know what happens after a vacation even how short. You end coming back on the job but wishing you can extend the break for one more week.
Then there was Valentine’s Day and the Theme Day. Not to mention that February is also the other official heart month: American Heart Month.
And who can forget the frustrating downtimes here and network-wide?!
All those, on top of some wonderful, amazing
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Vitamin D has the potential to become the “new aspirin“, the little inexpensive pill that may be able to block the development of some cancers, strengthen bones, prevent multiple sclerosis and alleviate winter depression.
Such were the findings of a new Canadian study:
But it?s not science fiction. The ?new aspirin? could be Vitamin D. Just as [...]
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I'm going home.
I've gotten in and out of the fake car and fake bathroom. I've done the stairs, played balloon volleyball, and exercised 'till I'm sore. I'm nowhere near 100 percent, but they think I'm ready to go back home.
I'm a little nervous, to be honest. No more wheelchair. They're sending one home with me, but I don't plan to use it.
I'll be using a walker and my own two feet. They're getting stronger every day. But I still find it perplexing that they don't work the way they used to. What happened?
I know the medical answer to that, of course. It's the g
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Vitamin D has the potential to become the “new aspirin“, the little inexpensive pill that may be able to block the development of some cancers, strengthen bones, prevent multiple sclerosis and alleviate winter depression.
Such were the findings of a new Canadian study:
But it?s not science fiction. The ?new aspirin? could be Vitamin D. Just as we discovered that aspirin can guard against heart disease, Vitamin D could become a useful weapon in the fight against MS, osteoporosis, mild depression and one of the most devastating diseases of our time ? cancer.
?As time has gone by, Vit
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I found out today that the job that I got the other day was terminated as they saw that after being sick for so long with cancer that I wouldn't be able to do the job.
This sucks as they won't ... (Source: Community Blog)
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Tomorrow is the day I report for a visit with my radiation oncologist, the woman who designed and delivered my radiation therapy, those 30 some daily sessions that blasted the site of my tumor in order to prevent a local recurrence of breast cancer. So far, its doing its job. My cancer has not returned.
I [...] (Source: my Breast Cancer blog)
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So things continue on fairly normal as Kent is finishing up his last chemo treatment of the first cycle. He will start a second six week cycle on March 10. Dr. Brinker feels the cancer levels are decreasing nicely and Kent should be ready for the stem cell transplant after the second cycle is complete. The steroids and plethora of meds take their toll but amazingly Kent can feel lousy one day and be running circles around all of us the next day. We’ve been keeping entertained watching CP basketball and the boys won their first district game last night with Keaton’s buddy Charli
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Let me confess, first of all, that as a gardener, my eyes are bigger than my stomach. In other words, I bought far more seeds than I have room for in my rather modest garden space.
Never mind that I created a vegetable garden in the sky in my backyard: a structure that was once Younger Son's fort is now a little retreat for me with pots of vegetables and two folding lawn chairs. I drink my coffee there on summer mornings, and having the plants up high keeps them safe (mostly) from slugs and snails.
When my friend Laurie and I visited a couple of plant nurseries on Tuesday, this is what I
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