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posted 09/02/2008, comments (0)

Living with Metastasis: The Empowered Patient

The thing about being in ongoing treatment for metastatic breast cancer is that one gains a fair amount of experience in navigating the system and acquires some pretty strong opinions as to how things should be done. At least that’s true for me. For example, whenever I go for chemotherapy treatments (I have lost count of how many I have... Read more Chevron

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posted 08/28/2008, comments (7)

Chemo brain at work

Greetings all, Having been summoned to a meeting with my supervisor and our manager, to discuss "performance issues," I'm expecting to have to defend my somewhat-eroded attention to detail. Can anyone suggest a fact sheet or other "official" document (as opposed to a blog) that I can print off and give them, so it won't seem like... Read more Chevron

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posted 08/21/2008, comments (4)

Living with Metastasis: When Boring is Good

The thing about writing regularly about living with breast cancer metastasis, is that when the illness is well managed and one responds well to chemotherapy, the well of interesting stories can dry up pretty quickly. My first few months post diagnosis of liver metastasis (in late 2006 and early 2007) were a real roller coaster, as my body... Read more Chevron

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posted 08/21/2008, comments (3)

Long-term side effects of chemo with Taxol

For the last year-and-a-half I've been really suffering with painful feet. Now I'm not the sort of person to run to the doctor every time I sneeze, so I tried to figure it out myself. I tried orthotic-like supports: nothing. I tried 800 mg. of ibuprofen: nothing. In April I took my son on a college road trip to... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/30/2008, comments (6)

Living with Metastasis: The Emotional Toll of Breast Cancer (Stage 4) as a Chronic Illness

I have Stage 4 breast cancer. However, I am also in clinical remission, with no sign of cancer in my liver (which was once riddled with tumours). What does this mean? We can assume that there are still cancer cells in my body and that, eventually, we will find new tumors. Until that time, I undergo chemotherapy and... Read more Chevron

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