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A Bit of a Hiccup Nov 2016

Hey all…well, we landed ourselves in the Emergency Room around 9am this morning

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Today’s Results Oct 2016

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The scan was excellent. NO NEW SPOTS. The spot from January that we radiated continues to go away. The 2 spots we have been treating have behaved. They stayed the same if not reduced slightly. The

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Torture by Electrocution Oct 2016

That is the best way to describe it.  Every time the thought of Tuesday, October 18th @ 8am pops in to my head (which is all the freakin time) my body surges with this pain – from head to toe.

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Rough Chemo Day Sep 2016

Well, today wasn’t a good day.  Tim had an allergic reaction to one of the chemo medicines, Oxaliplatin.  So all was going as planned, he got hooked up to the infusion around 11:15am…  I left around 11:40am to grab us

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God Is Great!!!! July 2016

We got some gooooood news!!!!!  There are NO NEW SPOTS and they see a slight reduction in the tumors that are there.  Woo Hoo – Thank You God for answering our prayers.  We feel this is the best news we

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Balance July 2016

bal·ance ˈbaləns/ noun 1.an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady I think the majority of us underestimate how critical balance is.  How it is the driving force behind living a beautiful, successful, happy,

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Chemo.2 – The Eve of The FINAL Chemo Infusion July 2016

Great news…  since Tim got fluids last Tuesday he has been feeling sooooo GOOD!  The fluids definitely helped him and it seems that this new medicine has kicked in and is helping him to put some weight on!!!!  Yay…  so

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Tonight I Have A Sad Heart… May 2016

Ahhhh, tonight – all I can see and feel is sadness.  Actually, I can’t see because the tears are blurring everything.  I hate this.  I hate days like today.  It has been a rough one.  I still chose to be

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It is a gray, gloomy, rainy day outside – and inside of me April 2016

I am beyond sad today.  The thought of not having Tim with me through the “golden years” is so paralyzing.  We’ve worked so hard to be good people, be good friends/neighbors, to support our family, to have a nice home and to

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Chemo.2 Round #1 – April 2016

We will start Chemo this Thursday, April 21st.  We will be doing Folfox again with the addition of an Antibody called Avastin.  The purpose of the Avastin is it strangles the tumor, it shuts down the blood supply in hopes of

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