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Done!
Hm. So now what? Cancer treatments have been on my mind constantly for the past 9 months, and now that I’m finished, I’m not sure where to go next. I am at the same time overcome with joy and hamstrung by a lack of direction. I had one singular goal to focus on, and now that I’ve …
GUESS WHERE THE RADIATION HITS ME
2 more days of treatment left.
Proton Therapy
Before sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner each year, my mom makes us all write down what we are thankful for. Two years ago I wrote, “Good Health”. I remember this because I was lightly chided for picking such a lame and obvious thing – like saying I’m thankful for oxygen or photosynthesis. And though I …
Drawing
I went for a run last night to the high school and on behind it and to the nature trail simply known as the Prairie Wolf Slough. It’s a little slice of nothing that starts in a nondescript back corner of a soccer practice field and winds its way along a stream, behind a few …
The longer I lay here
I’m currently typing this from the crude home office I just set up in the living room at my parents’ house in Deerfield. It has a window and everything! Hello future lost hours of productivity staring at the front lawn instead of the the pictures of Italy on the wall in my cube back in …
It’s been an anxious month. I finished chemo 5 weeks ago, and in the meantime, I’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting to start radiation therapy. The initial plan of getting treated here in Holland was scrapped nearly 4 weeks ago already, and I’ve spent the rest of the time waiting to get an appointment at …
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
I’ve had the idea for this post bouncing around in my head for a couple months now, and was waiting until I got a new job to type it out. Which I mean to say that I’m in the running for a new job that I really hope I get, because I realized that even …
I didn’t get a tattoo today
I thought I was going to. I was supposed to. I was minutes away from getting one. I wish I got a tattoo today. Let me back up. Last Monday was my last chemotherapy treatment. I didn’t really celebrate much apart from a few classier-than-normal-dinners, because I was still dealing with the side effects, and, …
Finished
Had my (hopefully) last chemo treatment EVER yesterday. It was rather uneventful itself, with no fanfare or celebration, because there’s still a week of side effects to suffer through one last time. And even then, I still have a month of radiation treatments coming up – I meet my radiation oncologist for the first time …