Author: Eileen OShea
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Celebrating
This weekend marked the 16th annual El Prieto Handicap – Chuck’s annual race. It’s a very neat event, held in the San Gabriel Mountains in an area called Oak Grove Park. Two miles of the race is on a single track trail called El Prieto (hence the race name), and every year the direction alternates:…
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Run-around Chuck
Time flies when you’re getting your life back to some semblance of normal. It’s been six weeks (!!) since Chuck’s last chemo treatment and he has actual hair growing (versus chia fuzz) on his head and his beard is also returning. His energy is returning and his taste buds are starting to work. The hardest…
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Follow up
I started this post on April 21 with the words, “I am sitting in a waiting room at the City of Hope…” I was doing that yesterday as well. Over the past six months, I realize, I’ve done a LOT of waiting in waiting rooms at City of Hope. But yesterday’s doctor visit officially put…
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Chia Chuck
Chuck is starting to let his hair grow now that he’s done with chemo. It’s early days yet but so far it appears to be coming in kind of like a chia pet – fuzzy. Color is indeterminate. It’s not black or straw, but it’s too soon to tell if it’s his former grey. I…
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Adding to a great day
At the end of the day today, as the last of the chemo dripped into Chuck’s veins, all of the nurses in the infusion unit came into his room, sang Zippity-Doo-Dah and gave him a medal! We were doing pretty well keeping our emotions in check until they put that medal around his neck, then…
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And just like that, it’s a new beginning
After four months of crappy news and endless worry, today was great. Chuck got the official ALL CLEAR. He is cancer-free. We have it in writing. There’s a lot of follow-up: he comes in for a PET scan in a month, and for the next year every three months Dr. Nade wants him to come…
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