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Another Christmas in the Chemo Pod

Today is treatment #110 and my 7th Christmas in the chemo pod. Dave & I left the farm at 6 am. I saw my oncologist today, the amazing Dr. Bisi. They had issues with some pipes that closed some of the chemo pods in the Siteman Cancer Center. That would wreak havoc to the scheduleโ€ฆ

109

Today was treatment #109. Dave & I left the farm at 6:30 am. We borrowed a vehicle because my daughter and I were in a car accident Sunday. My car took the brunt of it and left us a bit sore and rattled. My digestive system has been challenging lately and today was no exceptionโ€ฆ

108

Today was chemo #108. Dave & I left home around 6:30 am and will get back home around 5:00 pm. It was a gorgeous sunny day. Hopefully I will sleep through the worst of it tomorrow. I had one of my favorite chemo nurses today, Joyce. I am so grateful for all Dave does toโ€ฆ

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Please like and share this using the buttons below. You can navigate to the home page and enter your email address to receive my blogs in your inbox. I have a dark, salty sense of humor. The chemo pod nurses do, too! This window decoration was at my eye level in the chemo pod today.โ€ฆ

Resiliency is Exhausting

Today is National Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Here is a link to my donation page. All money goes to Metavivor which gives all its money toward researching MBC. https://donate.metavivor.org/fundraiser/5554408 I decided to take a year off of advocacy last November. My health was very poor and I needed a break. I didnโ€™t know thenโ€ฆ

Please

I got my flu and Covid vaccines today. Since I have chemo 107 on Tuesday, I figured this was a better time to do it since my blood count takes a dive each time I get chemo. Please get vaccinated. It helps people like me with severely compromised immune systems. Be a super hero. Forโ€ฆ

Catching Up

Today we left home at 4:30 am. I had a brain MRI and an appt with my radiation oncologist. I extended my streak for unremarkable brain scans – the desired result. It has been well over a year now without any new brain tumors. The new treatment I switched to last summer seems to beโ€ฆ

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