Posted in breast cancer, chemo, recovery, tagged breast cancer, cancer, chemo, friends, hair, julie martin, mastectomy, Thanksgiving on November 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well, I did it.
More accurately, *we* did it.
There’s a picture below from part way through the process, and the full series of pictures can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/BrianAndJulieMartin/JuliesHairCut
Friday night, Brian, Cathy, and I plunked me in the tub and pulled out Brian’s beard-trimmer (which, purchased by me for Brian in a major feat of [...]
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Posted in breast cancer, chemo, recovery, tagged breast cancer, cancer, chemo, friends, hair, julie martin, mastectomy on November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
What I want to know is, where the #*%# is my steroid high?
Everyone who’s had chemo has told me that they had a steroid high after chemo - some even said it was the same day and lasted into the next. I am still waiting . . . I had to take a long [...]
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Posted in breast cancer, chemo, pulmonary embolism, recovery, tagged julie martin, cancer, chemo, hair, friends, mastectomy, breast cancer, pulmonary embolism, blood clot, lungs on November 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Welcome to the most recent installment of the popular soap opera, “All My Chillblains” (lived before a live audience).
In this episode, our heroine Julie finds herself playing out her recurring nightmare, in which she returns to the scene of her surgery, over and over, day after day. The curtain opens on Julie, standing [...]
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Posted in breast cancer, chemo, pulmonary embolism, recovery, tagged julie martin, cancer, chemo, friends, mastectomy, breast cancer, pulmonary embolism, blood clot, lungs on November 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Finally it seems I’ve turned a corner in my recovery - I’m having very little pain, and although I still tire, it takes longer to hit me, and less time to recover, as well as that I can do more and more before I need a rest. I’ve been able to walk Robin around [...]
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Posted in breast cancer, pulmonary embolism, recovery, tagged julie martin, cancer, mastectomy, breast cancer, pulmonary embolism, blood clot, lungs on November 4, 2007 | No Comments »
This story is called St. Vincent’s Massacre, but I’m not going to tell it with four-part harmony.
Well, for something like a year, I’ve had intermittent chest pain on my left side, and my doctor had ruled out heart problems with a battery of tests, and decided it was muscular pain related to the size of [...]
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Posted in breast cancer, chemo, recovery, tagged breast cancer, cancer, chemo, driving, friends. medical tests, julie martin, mastectomy on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Woo-hoo! I just tried driving for the first time - it was both easier and harder than I would have expected. Because my Mini is so small, it turns out the the majority of shifting arm movement is from my elbow, which helps. However, I do have to push to get it [...]
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