We had a nice, laid-back Christmas – slept in, had a morning beverage of choice (coffee for me, hot chocolate for Brian), sat and enjoyed each others’ company. We started cooking dinner around 1:15 (ham, yams, green bean casserole). The only disappointment for the day was that we’d invited a friend over, but due to [...]
Archive for December, 2008
December 27, 2008
Posted in beading, books, breast cancer, cancer, cats, chemo, dog, knitting, quilting, recurrence, tagged beading, breast cancer, cancer, chemo, Christmas, dog, friends, julie martin, knitting, presents, quilting, recurrence, Robin on December 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
December 21, 2008
Posted in breast cancer, cancer, chemo, dog, radiation, recurrence, tagged breast cancer, cancer, chemo, dog, fatigue, julie martin, radiation, Robin, snow, winter solstice on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Winter Solstice!
We’re snowed in, with the most snow that we remember having since we moved out here.
Last weekend, we flew down to Northern California to visit family on our usual quickie Christmas visit (I didn’t get to go last year because of the chemo). The weather forecast had indicated that snow and ice were [...]
December 9, 2008
Posted in breast cancer, cancer, cats, chemo, dog, recovery, recurrence, tagged breast cancer, cancer, cats, chemo, dog, julie martin, recovery, recurrence, Robin, surgery on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All went well with the chemo port implantation – the surgeon was a little late because her 5-year-old had mislaid his library book and they had to search for it, but I was back in recovery by 9:00 a.m., and home by 10:30 a.m.
St. V’s has a new piece of equipment in the pre-op ward [...]
December 6, 2008
Posted in breast cancer, cancer, chemo, pulmonary embolism, radiation, recurrence, tagged blood clot, breast cancer, cancer, chemo, fatigue, hair, insomnia, julie martin, oncologist, pulmonary embolism, radiation, the nutcracker suite on December 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This time last year, I was bald. This year, I am painfully short (well, my hair is).
I’ve decided to start keeping track of my hair adventures with this next round of chemo – I have a patchy record from the previous treatment, but am going to start a picture album of the changes I go [...]
