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I thank each and every one of you for the comments as well as the messages I received. My appointment yesterday was late in the day, and after arriving home around seven, I had a cup of tea and opened...

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Flights of fancy

And leaps of imagination. These are some of my favorite images from the shoot last week with my friend Sadie Dayton. Our day began early; we were on the beach at sunrise. Sporting at various times a...

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Update

I had my CT scan and appointment with Dr. Shaw yesterday. As anticipated, the news is not particularly good. The radiology report reads: ‘A mixed attenuation lesion in the left lower lung zone now...

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And they call this coverage

Boys and girls, the price you see on the package of Advair (thirty day supply) is my frigging copay. Well, it would be if I’d actually taken that little inhaler home with me. Yep. I’ve got health...

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Climbing trees

I have no fear of heights and I love to scale things. Trees in my youth, some rock climbing in my twenties, scaffolding and the coupling of freight trains in my fifties. Well, it would seem I’ve...

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Oh girl

I think I got this. I drove myself to and from the hospital yesterday. No problemo. Early morning breakfast with my daughter, and then an appointment with a neuro onc. Two weeks ago I started getting...

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Scaling

I have hit the wall that is week two. Massive fatigue. Rheumy eyes. Gums that weep, a mouth that feels like sandpaper. Nosebleeds. Loose of bowel, I’ve lost five pounds. Neuropathy is both afoot and...

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Coming clean

I’ve got no eyelashes. Not a single one. And my eyebrows remind me of those scraggly hairs my adolescent sons would so proudly sport on their upper lip–which I referred to (and not kindly) as a...

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Game plan

My sense of where I am at and my scans are in agreement. And although I can continue to entertain the notion of free choice, Dr. Lin said today we were coming to that place where a switch in treatment...

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And here we go

I had a scan on Sunday and the report was just posted. From a personal perspective, I would have to say it is not good news. Rather aggressive growth over a two month period. So damn. I am not...

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