Every Three Weeks

I remember 9/11/2001 just like it was yesterday. I was living in Oakland and working in downtown San Francisco, across from Two Embarcadero. It was creepy driving across the Bay Bridge with absolutely no traffic. I felt like I was in a zombie apocalypse movie. I also remember thinking that day: I wonder what it…

I have a PET scan tomorrow, and I’m having a nervous breakdown. I’m thinking all the thoughts and all the what-ifs. I’m scared. I’m worried. I’m wondering if the cancer has come back. It’s seriously insane how one scan feels like it has the power to determine my entire future life path. Or maybe there’s…

I have a New Year’s tradition… I drive down the Las Vegas Strip on January 1st and make sure I’m wearing red underwear. Okay, actually I don’t own any red underwear, so I wore magenta. Close enough, yeah?? There’s an urban legend that if you wear red underwear on New Year’s Day, you’ll have lots…

November 18, 2019. The day I found out I had cancer. Not exactly an anniversary I want to celebrate or remember, but it’s part of my life now. Lately, I’ve kind of gone into hibernation mode. I haven’t felt like talking to friends or family very much because nobody can really understand what I go…

I haven’t been blogging lately. I’m going to radiation every day, and I just get so tired that I can’t even… But I had surgery on May 20, and it went okay! I was SUPER scared beforehand because…who wouldn’t be scared thinking about getting cut open? After I finished chemo in April, my breast surgeon…

OMG, I MADE IT!!! Yesterday was my last day of chemo! I made it through 6 cycles… just barely. 😂 But I’m so excited that the hard part is over!!! I’ll be continuing with Herceptin and Perjeta for a year—or maybe indefinitely—and I’ll still have to go in every 3 weeks, but they said the…

Hello again! Today is my 5th chemo! I only have one more chemo left after this and I can’t wait!!! I’ve been getting this weird ringing in my right ear and also some blurred/double vision, which might be from the chemo. The ringing comes and goes every couple of days, and thankfully I haven’t experienced…

Today I really wanted to bring donuts for all the infusion nurses, especially one of my regular nurses because she is so sweet and nice. And today, of all days, she was off. Doh! Anyway, I think all the other nurses really liked the donuts, and they’re all nice too. I hid two donuts in…

This past week has been going okay. This time the side effects were mostly nausea, and then I got a yeast infection AND a UTI, so I had to take antibiotics. But I didn’t get the crazy diarrhea like last time… thank goodness!!! I’ve also been having some hot flashes from the Lupron injection, but…

The last couple of days I’ve been feeling pretty normal. I’ve been able to drive around, run errands and just feel like myself again. Well, except for the whole not having hair part. It still feels funny to sleep with no hair. I have this weird phantom feeling like my hair is still there, and…