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  • A newer, stronger chemo

    Published January 26, 2012

    I have tried four different types of chemotherapy since November. The side effects have been so awful that I have had to stop each one.  It's about to get worse

  • Cancer and kids

    Published January 12, 2012

    How I wish my children did not have to grow up with so many worries. My daughter was 10 when I was first diagnosed, and it has been a burden for her. It's crazy to think that the one who is living with cancer can feel guilty about having cancer

  • Ring in the New Year With a Team Effort

    Published December 29, 2011

    Although living with cancer is the last thing I ever could have foreseen, it is what it is; and on a good day, I am grateful that I am still here

  • Christmas on Chemo

    Published December 15, 2011

    I want so badly to tolerate this drug because it is really working on my liver metastases. I am sad about my kids coming home from college and me not feeling well. I want to run around with them, go to movies, visit friends. But between these sores and my low energy…who knows?  

  • Continuing the 'Drama' of Chemo

    Published December 08, 2011

    The drama of the mouth sores continues. Thank you everyone who have been kind enough to take the time to send me remedies for mouth sores and cracked feet and hands. I am trying them all. Oh, the joys of chemo. Actually this chemo does have a silver lining because in addition to trying to kill me, it kicked my cancers' butt by dropping my tumor markers 40 points

  • Looking for Advice and Proving Comedy Heals

    Published December 01, 2011

    Thanksgiving has come and gone. It is my favorite holiday of the year because it puts "thankfulness" up front and center. Even when I am at my angriest of moments, I am thankful that I am still alive and continue to beat this dastardly disease

  • Giving It Another Go

    Published November 17, 2011

    Have you ever heard of chemo hell or chemo gone bad? Let me tell you how it works – or rather, doesn’t. You're on a regimen of chemotherapy that suddenly stops working. You are told that your tumor markers have risen, and the tumors in your liver are getting bigger. So begins the scramble to decide a new course of treatment

  • Entering the War Zone

    Published November 10, 2011

    I'm back...a little worse for the wear, but I've got that fighting Irish blood, and I will claw my way back to the top as long as there is one ounce of energy inside me

  • Battling Cancer: Anger Is Our Friend

    Published October 27, 2011

    I would like to know, from those of you who read this blog, are you angry? Are you willing to take to the streets like those citizens angry about the greed of Wall Street or the Tea Party? Whatever your beliefs, step out of yourself, and make your anger known

  • 'Five' Does Breast Cancer Justice

    Published September 29, 2011

    The reason I exist today is that I am not willing to go down until we turn cancer into a chronic disease. A disease we can live with and not die from. What about the cure? I frankly don't care about the cure. It may come some day, but not today. We need to put the cure on the back burner for now—and realize that all we really have right now is early detection