(Facebook readers, please click here to be taken to my blog and read this entry as it should look! https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) My horizons have changed a little in the past 48 hours. I’ve gone from the serenity of Port Franks’ beaches… …to the serenity of Riedlingen’s hills and forests. It’s an adjustment I’m happy to make! […]
I have a confession to make: After years and years and many moons of loudly and stubbornly proclaiming that jogging is unquestionably of the devil, and after myriad rants about the disastrous side-effects of too much exercise on the human condition (ie. excessive brain jostling resulting in a person’s inability to illustrate a point with […]
(Reading on Facebook? Please click here to be redirected and see it as it should be!https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) This is the last entry I will be writing from Canada in 2008–I’m flying off to Germany a week from today! I still occasionally find it hard to believe that a two-month summer break turned into a five-month battle […]
(Reading on Facebook? Please click here: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) NEWSFLASH: I’m heading back into surgery tomorrow, Thursday. My plastic surgeon had a cancellation and is going to “fix my face.” Pray that surgery #10 will be as uneventful as 1 through 9 were! Details at the end of this post. So how exactly does a cancer-twofer patient […]
The surgery was shorter, but the incision is longer and the wound much deeper. And I’m thrilled with the consequent pain because……..the margins are clear! I got the phone call from my doctor a few minutes ago (she actually giggled when she told me the news!), just 24 hours after surgery, and there was no […]
The last time I saw my doctor, she asked me if I wanted to pursue “Oncotype Testing.” With this test, they analyze a sample of my tumor to determine how likely recurrence will be and, therefore, how aggressively to treat the disease. It’s an extremely costly test (over $3,000), but my insurance agreed to cover […]
(Please, please, please don’t read this entry on Facebook! The pics are intended to be seen in their original context… So do me a favor and click here, will you? https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) Sorry to disappoint, but my date isn’t this handsome man… Actually, the last time I had a real date was…uhm…when I was in college, […]
(Reading on Facebook? Please click here to be taken to this entry as it ought to look: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) You know those camera shots of tennis matches where you see hundreds of heads in a stadium shifting back and forth in unison to follow the action? Well, I feel like my emotional head has been swiveling […]
Life has been so full since my last hurried entry–but not full of weeping and wailing, as some of you might have worried, given the news I received last Friday. The first evening after the news was…rough. I prayed. I considered my options. I crumpled up and threw away the mental notes I’d been making: […]
UPDATE: I was sitting on the floor of my bedroom this evening, trying to choose a song to sing on Sunday, when the phone call from my beloved doctor came. The biopsies she took two days ago revealed another active cancer site… She couldn’t give me a plan of attack, not until further discussion and […]