If you pay any attention to medical headlines, you'll see the word 'inflammation' come up quite frequently. Inflammation has been linked to heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, cancer, Alzheimer's, essentially all chronic diseases. It seems that so many in the medical establishment are now just waiting for the next drug that can make inflammation *poof* disappear. [...]
This article I'm pasting below came into my inbox today from a newsletter that I receive from the National Brain Tumor Society. Temodar is the chemotherapy that I am currently taking. It's quite disturbing for me to read things like this, but it makes me even more confident that pursuing multiple ways to kill this [...]
Wow. It's been awhile, eh? So busy with so many random things going on. Here's the rundown. On the health front, I'm starting my second round of chemo on Sunday night, which will go for 5 days. The first round was definitely a learning curve of what and what not to do. Hopefully I can [...]
We finally heard back from Dr. Liau last night. She said that the brain tumor board (that always seems weird to say) reviewed my scan yesterday, and although they agree there has been some growth of the tumor, it's nothing major. They agree with our decision to proceed with chemotherapy and get another scan in [...]
Alone in my house, here I sit with my thoughts It's hard not to ponder the what if's and what not's I struggle not to journey down the path of my fears My thoughts on this path are usually trailed by tears Will my kids have a mother, will my husband have a wife? How long will God [...]
Chemotherapy has officially begun. So far it just feels like a fairly bad case of the flu. I really can't complain, considering it is chemotherapy, and it's only for 5 days at a time. I didn't sleep very well Monday night, which was the first night I started, so I wasn't feeling well much of [...]