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It’s been ages...

Sun, 1 Jun 2008 19:31:28 -0600

An old friend of mine called tonight--someone I hadn’t talked to in quite a few years. We caught up on the news, and she asked if I still kept up my blog. I had to admit to her that I’m on about my third blog since the one she was talking about. I sent her the link to this and to the blog I kept whi

Graduation day!

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:48:43 -0700

It’s been a while since I updated this. I don’t think it has a very wide audience, so that probably isn’t much of a problem, but... :-) Tomorrow is my last radiation treatment. It’s been quite a ride. Not as bad as I expected, really. I’ve had quite a bit of fatigue, but it hasn’t been constant, so

Winter. Ugh!

Sat, 8 Dec 2007 12:55:03 -0700

It snowed all day yesterday and is supposed to continue through the weekend. It rained before it started snowing, so there’s a layer of black ice under that fluffy stuff. I don’t have to go out this weekend, but I have an early doctor appointment on Monday. I hope the roads are less slick by then.

Doing great!

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:48:07 -0700

Today is my fourth day post-op and things are going well. The surgery was Tuesday morning. I got to the hospital at 7:30. After they checked me in, they took me to radiology to perform the breast needle localization. This is the procedure where the radiologist inserts a couple of wires into the br

Some good news

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:27:03 -0700

Last week I saw my oncologist. I really like him. He’s done a lot of research, which always makes me feel better about an M.D. He’s fairly young (looks to be in his early 40s) and seems quite knowledgeable and bright. He answered all my questions--and more--and spent a lot of time with me. His nurse