Chemo Round 3: THE BEST LAID PLANS SHOT TO HELL!
About four days before this third chemo I get a head cold. I’m sure it was either from the hospital, the ER, all the stress or a lovely combo of each. So I am...
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Back to the Hospital once again with Dancing Nurses, Breadcrumbs, and an Elephant Condom – Part 2
So Michelle gets a room that is far, far away from the elevator and I know I’m in trouble. We settle in and because I don’t want to leave her I decide to stay...
Back to the Hospital once again with Dancing Nurses, Breadcrumbs, and an Elephant Condom – Part 1
It started Thursday when Michelle wasn’t feeling well at work. It’s lucky she has a good relationship with thermometers because she took her temperature and it was 100.5 then 100.6. When you’re going through...
Chemo Round 2 All Hell Breaks Loose! – Part 2
As soon as they start giving Michelle the second chemo cocktail, (non-alcoholic of course), she starts having an allergic reaction to it. She goes into Anaphylaxis Shock. First she starts itching all over, then...
Chemo Round 2 Routine Until All Hell Breaks Loose! – Part 1
8:40 a.m. Elevator down? I have to take back what I said about the cancer dungeon because for being an underground cancer center it is actually very beautiful and we’re very lucky to be...
Cancer Spouse Finds Humor In Her Own Shortcomings
First let me just say that the caregiver is not one of my strengths. Saying that I am the nurturing type is like saying Donald Trump tells the truth. It’s just not in my...
THAT SNEAKY BASTARD C!
Michelle, my wife and partner of 26+ years, beat cancer six years ago. People say you have to get past cancer, that cancer can’t rule your life, there’s life after cancer, blah, blah, blah....