Showing posts with label Thrive with Cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thrive with Cancer. Show all posts
Friday, July 29, 2016

July 29, 2015, I endured the first of six rounds of chemo. Today, I'm around to endure a hot day in Portland. Hallelujah for my health!

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I've been reflecting on this anniversary off and on throughout July, 2016. How would it feel to reach the one year mark? To tel...
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Friday, May 6, 2016

The best stamps I ever bought!

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Celebrate, y'all! I got an unexpected phone call from Dr. Johnson last night--he's my oncology radiologist. Unexpected because ...
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Thursday, July 16, 2015

UPDATE & Throwback Thursday. I took this photo on Friday, July 9, 2004, but that doesn't matter one bit because I'm using it today to show you my little Mama and me at the Bijou Cafe, eating our last meal in Portland on our first visit here to be with my sons. Now, she's gone, they're still here, I'm here, and the three of us are going to my chemotherapy appointment this afternoon.

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If not for this woman, I'd be so scared at what I'm going to find out at 2:30 p.m. today. As it is, knowing the smarts, t...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Breakfast at Wimbledon and an UPDATE

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I woke up early and decided to get on up. While Breakfast at Wimbledon played on ESPN, I walked into the kitchen and cooked my ow...
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Friday, July 10, 2015

Necessities I never expected to need, now I'm thankful for having them in my future

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The call for this appointment came in this afternoon, two days after getting the pathology report and recommendation to treat my ca...
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Sunday, June 28, 2015

Ira Keller Fountain, downtown Portland

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UPDATE: I slept so-so until 1 a.m. and then woke up to deal with allergy-induced phlegm in my throat. After making Twinings English B...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

In the natural order of things, it's Saturday again. I am thankful and blessed.

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Last Saturday, I picked these ripe blueberries and left the others right where they are on the bush so that they would have the cha...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

Home!

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These are two of the four windows in the largest room in my apartment. I keep the blinds shut most all of the time, especially when ...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

It's all about the details. Just found out that I check in tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. for surgery scheduled at 2:45 p.m. Whew. Am I ever gonna be hungry and looking forward to Popsicles in my hospital room tomorrow night, heh?

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Here's one short video for y'all, detailing my diet possibilities the day before surgery. You'll understand what I'...
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Saturday, June 20, 2015

UPDATE and a break from The World . . .

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UPDATE: Yesterday afternoon Dr. Steiner went over the first pathology report from the needle biopsy and then what our plan would be b...
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Friday, June 19, 2015

UPDATE: It ain't the news we wanted. And upside what happened in Charleston, SC, Wednesday night, my news is an eyelash loosened from our eyes by the tears we have shed. While you're praying for me, please, I entreat you, consider praying for all of us to treat each other as the valuable people we each are. Now, for the blog post I already had made for Friday: Size, often it's all in perspective and location. Sometimes, it's just flat out huge. No. 3

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UPDATE: The needle biopsy results say that there are fragments of atypical cells like the adenocarcinoma which was the kind of cance...
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Saturday, June 13, 2015

Lost my mind for a little while this AM, and I didn't even realize that it had gone, well, I realized the first time in a few minutes, but not the second time till I uploaded these photos

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I sat on a bench watching people, waiting until time to meet my friend Janessa this morning at the Hollywood Farmers Market. I ro...
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