As my hair has grown from nonexistent to a buzz cut to a very short pixie to a pretty typical pixie cut; I have learned to like it short…and unless they are all lying so does just about everybody I know. In spite of that, I have always thought that I needed to grow it […]
I had my surgery last Tuesday (February 7th), it was called a laproscopic bilateral salpingo oopherectomy. Basically they made a hole in my belly button and put a camera in it, made two holes on the sides of my lower abdomen and used them to insert tools to remove and chop up my ovaries and […]
On December 13 I had my first yearly mammogram after finishing my treatment. Of course I was scared, but after a week without word I started to assume that no news was good news. Unfortunately 10 days after the mammogram, I got a call from my oncologist. She told me that there had been “barely […]
I’m in my final countdown to the last step I have to take to be done my cancer treatment, except for daily anti-hormonal medication, and go on with my life I met with a gynecologist on Monday, and have booked a surgery for February 7th, when both my ovaries and my Fallopian tubes will be […]
One of the things I’m finding most frustrating about being a recent cancer survivor is how hard it is to get my energy back and feel like myself again. With me it’s very 2 steps forward 1 step back. I will have a few days or a week where I am pretty well the way […]
