Category: My Cancer Journey

Single Digits!

This time last year I was holding my breath, I had visited my doctor because of a lump on February 23, 2018. March 7th, 2018 was the second mammogram because of detected “abnormalities”. March 16, 2018 I was diagnosed. Exactly one year later on March 7th, 2019 I’m expected to finish treatments. 7 radiation treatments remain between me and the planned end of treatment. The end…

Another Accomplishment!

This weekend I earned my Wonder Woman medal! 🤣 This was a virtual 5k where you sign up, receive all the swag, but actually run the 5k on your own time and record it. Ok fine, you’re just paying to have a cool medal and no one really knows if you actually run or not. Sssshhhh. They have all sorts of different hobbies and themes of medals to lure you…

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The Next Step Begins Tomorrow

Well friends, I’ve taken a few weeks off from the updates because I’ve been resting and enjoying my “break” between chemo and radiation, but that ends tomorrow! Tomorrow (Monday the 28th) begins 6 weeks of radiation. The lame news is that I’ll have to go to the doctor for treatments daily, except for weekends. The better news is that side effects should…

Chemo Finito…What’s Next?

As you know, my last chemo treatment was on December 28th! Below is the video of me ringing the bell and Matt’s surprise for me at the end! So what’s next? Well this Thursday the 10th I have a surgery scheduled to remove the port that was needed for chemo. While surgery is always surgery, this one shouldn’t be a big deal. In fact…

THE LAST CHEMO

Tomorrow is my LAST CHEMO TREATMENT. I get a little teary just thinking about it. Around 12:30 tomorrow I’ll be ringing the bell…