This is John.
Penelope hated the terms describing when people died of cancer.
‘they fought bravely and lost the battle’
I think she got this from Assertive Cancer Patient but I could well be wrong. Forgive me if I am. Again possibly from the same source or just her own muse she preferred the mental image of dancing [...]
Archive for the ‘melanoma’ Category
Penelope has died – 09/03/09
Posted in melanoma on September 4, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Now I’ve Fallen
Posted in chronic illness, life besides cancer, melanoma on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So the rented wheel chair doesn’t fit through the doorway of the last room before our downstairs bathroom. I can wheel up to the door, then use the walker to get to and into the bathroom. Not too bad.
I got back to the doorway and was at the point of turning myself and the walker [...]
Sleep? Nah
Posted in chronic illness, life besides cancer, melanoma on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’d like to be sleeping. The dogs shoved out through the screen door at 1:30, knocking over the grate that’s supposed to keep them from doing that. John came to see if I wanted to go to the toilet then. I’ve been worried about walking without the brace on my foot and can’t put it [...]
I didn’t fall
Posted in melanoma on June 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I still ended up stuck on the bathroom floor while we figured out what to do.
Haveing gotten a shower with my nice new hand-me-down shower chair (what a life saver!) the next trick is how to get me out. And how we did it last time is never quite clear. Not using the [...]
This mobility thing
Posted in chronic illness, foot drop, melanoma on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m doing ok getting around with a walker, and I understand better what happened to cause the need for it, but it’s all damn inconvenient.
The cancer started it.
The same place in my brain that the tumors set off swelling in last summer, got hit by the radiation on its way to killing one of the [...]
No New Cancer!
Posted in chronic illness, melanoma on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had a standard follow up CT scan yesterday. I got the results today. Nothing new. No changes, no tumors, nothing that shouldn’t be there.
I didn’t realise how worried I’d been until I started crying.
I’ll keep on with the mantra. I’m done with cancer. I’m not having any more cancer for now. Yes I live [...]
Today I got a walker
Posted in chronic illness, foot drop, life besides cancer, melanoma on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And it’s a relief. I’m not more steady on my feet, but I’m not in fear of falling because of being unsteady. I need to name it, and decorate it, and jazz it up some. The doctor was willing to prescribe it, and insurance is fussing, because it’s not needed for a Melanoma diagnosis… duh. [...]
layout note
Posted in melanoma on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If I’ve done things right, I’ve fixed it so that my post offering a Chemo Cap is going to hang out as the top most post here for a while. I sent this link to someone last night and said “but you might just not look at those pictures I posted first”, because they just [...]
Cancer pictures
Posted in chronic illness, melanoma on May 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I read Jeanne’s post about someone’s post mastectomy photo being called sexual and abusive. I haven’t had a mastectomy, no need, knock on wood. But I thought I’d post photos of what cancer’s done to me anyway. If I can figure out how to get WordPress to let me upload them. Jeanne’s post is here: [...]
What Next?
Posted in melanoma on March 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I had my PET scan, which was mostly dull. I can write about it in detail if there’s anyone desperate to know. The person making the reminder calls was obviously reading from a script, and completely unprepared to be flexable when I asked about meds I needed
To take with food and couldn’t change the time [...]
