For whatever reason, Thanksgiving has been a mile marker for my life, my whole life. It started in college. Thanksgiving was the first time I got to go home after leaving for school in Indiana. I’d be lying if I said the girls on my floor in Teter Quad didn’t have a pool going on whether…
The Cancer Chapters
Happy Birthday to Me
I just turned 55. Even if I didn’t remember, I’m sure the AARP won’t let me forget it: They’ve send me an application every year since I turned 50, and I’m sure this year’s is sitting in my post office box even as we speak. I’ve always loved my birthday. It was the start of…
Looking Forward and Backward
See ya at the end of October, Georgetown! Since I posted last, I have passed two blood tests with flying colors. I think I’ve come up with the winning pre-test cramming session. I take the 5am Orange Theory class,don’t drink anything after, drive to the Lombardi Cancer Center, run up and down about 7 flights…
When 2 Becomes 6
I’m not exactly sure why I waited until the four hours before I have my next CT scan to pass along this news, as it could be obsolete in, say, four hours, but here it is. My every-tw0-week Georgetown Lombardi visits are about to expand to every-six-weeks. That’s right, the trial that failed for 90-percent…
Highs and a Low
I’m not sure why I wasn’t confident this time. Completely baseless, as I told Patrick. But going in to this CT scan, I was fully expecting the tumors to have grown. Part of the reason may be that I looked over the http://www.clinicaltrials.gov page recently, and I read that the goal for my trial was to have…
An Underdog Kind of Day
I was sure Underdog said it. I’ve actually spent the bulk of my 8-dollar Southwest wifi fee trying to prove it, but there’s no need to fear, that Underdog quote’s NOT here. He was NOT the one who said, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” So far today, though, putting pooch and proverb together is…