Monday ended up very traumatic but at least it ended on an up note. Ollie our 15-year-old cat has thyroid cancer and a large tumor. He is my daughters first love. 🙂 So Monday morning he had a breathing attack and we thought he was a goner. He wasn’t able to really breathe in as […]
I haven’t posted any updates lately. The reason is, after having had MM for so long, I just don’t think about it very much. It’s not like it was in the beginning. I used to wake up every day, and that was the first thing I’d think about. That was 2003. It’s just a part […]
‘You have stopped responding fast enough to traditional Myeloma treatments’. Fuck. Few things warrant the use of such foul language, especially in the written form, but a ‘fuck’ or a ‘bugger’ is definitely suitable in the situation I found myself in last Thursday afternoon. I didn’t say it out loud; I was still able to […]
Life is about learning and living. Each day is new. The past is gone ,tomorrow, who knows. But we have today. In the same way of thinking, each of us has a story. Some are happy, some sad, some traumatic some rich, some poor. You get the idea. the point is we all have a […]
This is my cat, Peeps, taking a snooze on the back porch on a sunny October day. Peeps has been with me for a few years now. She showed up at my house one winter. I called her Peeps because she used to stand up at the door and peep into the house through the […]
I am thirty years old. I have just turned thirty years old. It is no coincidence. Today, the 24 May, happens to be my birthday. Great Stuff. Super. Cool.. I would prefer if it were not my birthday today. I would have said the same thing last year, but I will say it again, I […]
I was going through papers a few nights ago, when I discovered the handwritten notes that Dr. Richardson (Dana-Farber) had written while I sat in an exam room, there in Boston, in March of 2003. That was 11 years ago. I remember him telling me, “We hope to get you to your 50th birthday — […]
Friends, family, acquaintances, fellow cancer patients, the public at large see me running around, having fun, being busy, volunteering, travelling, visiting friends, driving a big fancy new car that I could not afford without a Motability lease, going out to … Continue reading →
For the last fourteen days, I have wandered around the corridors of my flat in a state of disbelief, doubting my ears and those belonging to the head of Mamma Jones. When I was bored of that, my brain waited for the other shoe to fall, because in my world, it almost always does. The […]
My friends gave me their not-so-new 1989 Honda Accord SEi a few months back. It appeared to be in great condition for its age, and even compared to a car 10 years newer. I decided to invest time, effort and money into getting it into tip top condition. I started with the engine. I think … Read More →