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Chemo through my eyes……

What to expect from chemo…..that’s what I wanted to know.  I read medical internet sites and one scary blog but I came away with more questions than answers.  The more I researched the more I understood that  every cocktail of chemotherapy is different for each cancer.  There is really no pat answer…..but there are some pretty common […]

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Eight Octillion

Eight Octillion…..that’s the number of grains of sands scientist estimate make up the Sahara desert.  How about the sands on the beaches of the world?  7,500,000,000,000,000,000.  How do you even say that?? Aren’t you so glad to have that little bit of information?  You wonder why in the world would I even know that?  Well, […]

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That awful, wonderful, agonizing, amazing cloud time…..

                                                                          From the first day I heard the Doctor say ‘cancer’ it was like this big dark cloud descended […]

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Storm Clouds Rolling In

Two years ago this week, I was hooked up to an I.V. to administer the first round of a chemotherapy cocktail. I will never forget the first drip drip drip….. I can still see it clear as day in my mind. As the drugs began to fill my veins, my eyes began to fill with tears. […]

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