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Not feeling much like me

It’s been a funny sort of week. The weather is glorious and everybody else seems to be feeling the weight of winter being lifted from their shoulders. People look lighter and happier.

Not me. I’ve been feeling unusually stressed out and a little depressed the past few weeks.

A bunch of things are weighing […]

Ovaries, hormones and Simpson’s porn

I spent two hours and ten minutes at the gynecologist’s office yesterday. Most of that time was spent alone, half-naked in an examining room, with nothing to read but quit-smoking pamphlets and osteoporosis posters. I entertained myself by making deals with myself like “If nobody comes back into this room by 1:15, I swear I’m […]

The Year in Review: 2009

January:

My blog was resurrected after a near death experience with an ill-fated WordPress upgrade. I got approached by a stranger and asked if I was Duncan’s owner. I wrote three real letters, with paper and ink and stamps and everything. I sold a piece of art to a mysterious dark-haired stranger. Everybody at work […]

2009: The Readers Digest Condensed Version

Tomorrow I plan to do my full Year in Review post. But for now, here’s the Readers Digest Condensed Version:

In 2009 I had two mammograms, three breast ultrasounds, a pelvic ultrasound, an abdominal ultrasound, a bone scan, two biopsies, six MRIs, one radiation set-up, 18 radiation treatments, three pre-ops, three operations, three post-ops, 10 […]

Good news and a gala

Good news! Karen’s homeless cat friend has found a home in the country where he has the run of the barn and the house! His new staff includes a Burmese Mountain Dog and some chickens. Life probably doesn’t get much better than that.

Barkley

Speaking of Burmese Mountain Dogs, I met the cutest puppy ever this […]

Back on the merry-go-round

Yesterday afternoon I got a call from my breast cancer surgeon. That MRI I had last Friday night? It found something.

I’ve got a new lump in my right breast. It’s very small, it might not be cancer, it might just be scar tissue, but it’s in a completely different area of my breast than the […]

Five things I hate about my pharmacy

After teetering on the edge of sickness yesterday morning, I rallied and carried on with my day’s plans, which included lunch with my favourite sock monkey lady, and coffee and banana-butterscotch cake at Raw Sugar with Grace. (I confess I whined to Grace that the cake didn’t taste very butterscotchy, which might have been due […]

Treats at the end of treatment

Zoom, moments before the last treatment

I had my last breast cancer treatment today! Sure, there’ll be regular imaging tests (starting tonight, actually, with an MRI), and follow-up appointments for years to come, but I am now officially DONE.

I know I said a couple of months ago that the oncologist told me I […]

In the unlikeliest of places

Usually I have a pretty superficial relationship with Thanksgiving: it’s a day off work and a turkey dinner, which is reason enough to celebrate. But it occurred to me this morning, as I lay in bed snuggling with Duncan, that I have some extra reasons to be thankful this year.

I’m thankful for a nurse […]

Scars and scribbles

I’ve finished my first four radiation treatments, with fourteen remaining. I keep hoping something blogworthy will happen there, but the reality is that radiation therapy isn’t very exciting.

The most intriguing thing about it is that it’s in the basement of the Civic Hospital. To get there I have to go through a maze of […]