Category: another day in the life
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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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A tough week
Since Chuck’s cancer diagnosis, we have both traveled though a world of emotions: fear, uncertainty, anger, doubt, fear, uncertainty. Early in the process, soon after he was diagnosed (lo these many months ago, back in Nov 2008), we were told by more than one person that it would be a journey – and a long…
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The road goes ever on and on
Today marked Chuck’s fifth chemo treatment. It was also the day we got the results of the PET scan he had last week to measure the effectiveness of the chemo on his lymphoma. It wasn’t the slam dunk we had hoped for, but it wasn’t all bad either. His lymph nodes are all clear –…
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Wings of eagles
Along time ago in a galaxy far far away I used to work at USC. One of the groups I worked with was involved, for a while, in a project on Catalina Island. This meant I got to go out to Catalina Island pretty regularly for a while, and even better got to spend my…
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