(Original title – The Worst Birthday) The one thing I did when I found out that I would be having session number seven of Chemo was check when session number eight might be, and book flights to Adelaide for the weekend afterwards. Come hell or high water, I was going to get the fuck out of Melbourne for a few days and pretend like I wasn’t sick for a while. I had a pretty stressful pre-flight episode when I left…
(For now…) (Original title – The Man With Two Faces) And now for an update in how cancer continues to ruin my life, I’ve been dealing with a bit of a bung foot for a while now in varying ways. I mentioned about my toenail a while ago, and then I developed pain on the top of my foot that feels like a weird sharp bruise, and now I feel it in my ankle and the base of my calf….
(Original title – Through The Trapdoor) Oh my goodness, I never thought this day would come. I don’t have to have chemo anymore, and I am thrilled. The plan was, if the liver spot was shrinking – one more chemo. If it hadn’t, then no more chemo. Today I started my day at 7am with my alarm going off just after I filled in my sleep diary, because that’s a thing I do now. I got dressed, having procrastinated too…
(Original title – The Forbidden Forest) Do you know the thing that sucks the most about all this cancer bullshit, more than the whole “I’m actually going to die” part? (Yes, actually, legitimately more than that.) The thing that sucks the most is that chemo can cause your digestion to slow right down. Why does this suck the most? Because I want to eat all the food, and I can’t. Why? Because my stomach is constantly full to bursting. It…
(Original title – Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback) If you know me, you know I love my damn cat. Her dumb little face. Her stupid little paws. Her insistent meowing. She is the one topic that is guaranteed to bring me to tears when I think about the future. Minou stumbled into my life in January of 2013. I was dating Dan at the time, and we’d been talking about getting a kitten as a companion for his older cat, Ronya….
(Today’s chapter name isn’t a pun, but an anagram of the chapter title, “Nicholas Flamel”) Just in case you were thinking about developing your very own special mutant boob or other body part, I’ve made a list of pros and cons to having cancer. Here’s the pros: My work has an insurance policy that means I can take up to 2 years off work at 75% of my income, so I don’t have to report to Centrelink and I am…