Posts are in reverse chronological order. Scroll all the way down for the beginning and the archives. Click on "About" in the top left for the start of it all..... Currently, I am happy to say that my 6 month follow up went great. I did not get any scans since I am not experiencing …
Continue reading 6 month remission
My uncle (Steve Massie) passed away about a week ago. His celebration of life was on Wednesday. He was 66 years old. He faught the good fight against cancer, cancer that had started in his bladder and ultimately spread to his leg, muscle and bone. In the beginning, the chemo shrunk the tumor but unfortunatly …
Continue reading Rainbow Bridge
It is almost time for my 6 month follow up appointment with my oncologist Dr.Bloom. I cannot believe it has already been 6 months. A lot has happened since my last day of chemo back on Christmas Eve 2014! One of the most obvious is hair!!! I now have hair. I finally got my fist …
Continue reading My first haircut after chemo
(((Birthday was actually April 28th, I wrote this and forgot to post it. Shocking I know.))) Lots of things happened in my 20's but I am so happy to be moving into my 30's. I've never been here before but I'm told it's great! Nothing in our future is promised to us. Not tomorrow. Not …
I can't believe it's been a month already. I'm finally getting my energy back. I have been back to the gym a few times and trying to commit to 3 times a week to start. I still get out of breath easily but I'll be back to normal soon enough. My hair is starting to …
Continue reading Post chemo update – one month
I'm having an emotional day today. A woman I know passed away this morning. She has been battling breast cancer for a while now and the treatments stopped working. She leaves behind a family including teenage children. She reached out to me on Facebook a while back and I feel terrible I never got back …
Last Thursday I officially went into remission. I started the day at about 10:30 with a PET SCAN at Abbott. I could not eat anything in the morning. They flushed my veins with some dye then I had to take a one hour nap in a dark room with warm blankets and drink a bottle …
Continue reading Re-Mission Accomplished!!
I AM CANCER FREE 🙂 I had my pet scan today, it has been a LONG day so I don't have much to say right now other than I am now officially in REMISSION!!!! Wow. Feels good to be able to say that. It certainly has been a long road and I'm tired, worn out …
Continue reading PET SCAN RESULTS…..
Things are going good. I have been super busy this last week finishing some real estate classes that I started right before my diagnosis and had to put it on hold. So I have been in classes from 9-4 all week which isn't so bad but then you add the drive which is normally 45 …
Continue reading Two weeks post chemo…
Well it is a new year. A new year and I am done with chemo! I can't believe it has been 5 months since my diagnosis. It feels like yesterday. I just can't believe all that I have been through in 2014. It's hard to believe that I am at the end of the tunnel …
I had cancer and this is my story... 