Tag Archives: chemotherapy

Cheers

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After a week of painstaking agony and stress, the results of the biopsy have finally come back. The percentage of myeloma cells now present in Mama Bear are about 12%. Definitely not what we were hoping for. I think I can speak on behalf of everyone when I say we were disapp ...


Britney Spears

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The following is a copy of the message I sent out to all the members of our "Monsters Against Myeloma" facebook fanpage:Subj: Britney Spears!!!I just shaved my head.Where to begin, where to begin… If you grew up in the 90’s, like me, you might know what I look like. Yes, ...


REBIRTH

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Well, today is the big day! Today is the day that we've all been working and waiting for! Today is the day mama bear gets her stem cells back a.k.a Day 00. A lot of people refer to this day as their second birthday because you are receiving pure pluripotent stem cells (able ...


Ice, Ice, Baby

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My mom looks like a big, bald squirrel. Because of all the ice she is chewing (see picture), she looks like she's hoarding a bunch of nuts in her cheeks haha. But she's determined! Her cheeks are cool to the touch when you feel them so that's good, now all we have to do is m ...


Bald.

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Shaved the head yesterday....To say it was a little traumatizing would be a bit of an understatement.It takes a little bit of adjusting, but I think these things just take a little bit of time to get used to.Yesterday we packed all our clothes (like we were going on vacation ...


Plasmaphoresis

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In March of 2007 I was at my monthly oncologist appt for routine labs. I had previously had creatinine levels in the 0.8-1.0 range. Looking back in my records my creatinine on January 2, 2007 was 0.9. January 30th it was 1.0. February 27th it was 1.5. March 30th it jump ...