SICK NURSES, CHRISTMAS CAROLERS, AND WHAT DID YOU SAY?
Got to the Chemo Center at 7:30 a.m. for chemo number five? Turns out all the nurses are sick and wearing masks. The port works great, no pain, no looking for veins. I can’t...
Author: Denise McCanles
CHEMO CHRISTMAS AND A HYDRATED HANUKKAH
Back to the doctor for a follow up before the next chemo, which was supposed to be on Monday. With everything going on we usually joke with the doctors, but this time Michelle broke...
WHAT I AM GRATEFUL FOR AND TWO BLACK CATS?
I want to tell you a little story: We all hear and it’s widely talked about that once you hit five years cancer free you’re free and clear. At least that’s what I thought...
CHEMO 4 DAY TWO: ACID FLASHBACK, SIDE EFFECTS, ENOUGH ALREADY, ICE CAPADES, AND PINK SLIPPERS
So we get to the chemo center at 3:30 in the afternoon, which we never do. We always like to get a morning appointment, but that didn’t happen this time. Everyone kept saying how...
4TH TIME’S THE CHARM, MRS. DOUBTFIRE, HUMAN PIN CUSHION, AND WHERE DID SHE GO?
I knew we were looking at a long day when it took us half an hour just to get the blood work done. We got to the cancer center at 8:40 am in a...
HOPELESS, FEAR, GUILT, STAYING STRONG AND NO THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE ELECTION!
So I am writing this a day after the election and I am absolutely devastated about how completely off track this country has gone. Do you realize if this horrible man actually does get...
SIDE EFFECTS, ANTIDEPRESSANTS, A GIRAFFE, AND GOOD NEWS!
So we go to see the doctor and she tells us obviously Michelle can’t use that chemo anymore and she has to change it. So she decides we will stick with the first new...
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...
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...