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Hi friends. Well I turned 45 yesterday which is a great thing! You learn to celebrate the passing of each year with a cancer diagnosis. I wish I could say the day started off good but I had some crappy news at the start. I went in for chemo (yes, birthday chemo) and to meet … Continue reading »

Hi friends! Last I updated you I was about to go in for the lung catheter placement. As you may have seen from my FB post, in true Michelle fashion I had a completely bizarre reaction where I had stunningly bad pain the night of the placement and ended up in the ER getting pumped … Continue reading »

Hi lovely friends and family. Time to update you all on the good ‘ole “C” journey. So the chemo treated me as expected. I had about 8 days of nausea, aches, pains, exhaustion. It was manageable but not super fun. But starting day 9 (thursday this week) I started to feel much better. So hopefully … Continue reading »

Hi friends. Bad news this week I’m afraid. My scans came back with the awful news that my cancer has spread to my liver. I also have two enlarged lymph nodes (with cancer) and my pleural effusion (fluid in lung lining) was also back. The only good news is the spots on my liver (8 … Continue reading »

Hi friends & family. I would love to say that I haven’t updated this blog in 2 months because I’ve been whooping it up and having so much damn fun that I haven’t had a second of free time. I would love to say that I have felt so fantastic that there has been no … Continue reading »

I survived the port placement! At 6:45am yesterday we checked into hospital for the port placement. All went well. They gave me a fantastic cocktail of drugs to make me drift away and the doc placed my new titanium port (FAR more fancy then my old one of 2 years ago). The doc made two … Continue reading »

Hi friends! I have lots of news to share with you all. Since the last post I had my bone PT scan and my CT scan done. Not surprisingly, given my shitty cancer count numbers, that did not yield a lot of good news. My bone mets are back up to 7 spots, 2 spots on … Continue reading »

WOW – it’s been almost a year since I’ve updated this blog. Poor, poor neglected sunshine and kittens. I guess in some ways that’s a good thing since I haven’t had anything major to report (you know, like being diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer). But I’ve been wanting to get some things off my chest, … Continue reading »

hi friends. welcome back to the continuing adventures of Cancerland. So I’ll start with the latest good news. Last night I got my latest blood results and my cancer markers are down to 49!! Seeing how they were at 72 just 4 months ago, that is great movement! That means the chemo regiment I’m on … Continue reading »

Well overdue for a blog update…so here we go. Let’s jump into cancer update. My feet and hands have gotten progressively worse on the Xeloda chemo, so my oncologist, Dr. Rinn, decide to decrease my dose to 2,000mg of the Xeloda (from 3,000) and added a daily chemo called Cychophosphamide (say that 3x fast). Hopefully … Continue reading »