So, now that I've uploaded Ghost Whispers to Smashwords and Barnes and Noble, I was wondering, who's ready for an excerpt? Even if you're not, here it is:

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Sitting at a corner table in her favorite coffee shop, Cuppa Joe’s, Alexis tore a lined page from the notebook and crumpled it. A growing pile littered the scarred table top. The poem wasn’t ( Read more... )

Work pretty much got in the way of everything: writing time, blogging, time spent awake and coherent. But, happily, it's summer now, and there's no school to get up for. For now.
How was the return to work? I went back April 23, which gave me about 8 weeks of work. It seems like it would have been easy, right? Well, those 5 year olds ran me ragged ( Read more... )

First, I hope everyone had a Happy Easter, whichever one you celebrated. And Happy Spring while I'm at it.

So, I've now moved on to the passive treatment phase. Tamoxifen for at least 5 years. I started last Saturday, which avoided Friday the 13th. Not that I'm terribly superstitious, but why take the chance, right? And yep, the side effects have ( Read more... )

Before I forget, Happy Easter, everyone!

And yes, my hair is actually beginning to stick out because the pillows have mashed it, so I have recruited B’s baby hairbrush to help tame the stubborn hairs that like to go their own way (it had been tucked in a drawer forgotten). Not that it works, but I try. I wonder if it means that the waves are going ( Read more... )

The eyebrows are back, but not completely filled in. I can see their shape! The eyelashes are almost as long as they used to be.

My hair is so soft & fuzzy!!!!!

Radiation SEs? They're still not as bad as chemo, but they still suck. I mean, I was used to stumbling through my life and faking being awake for years even though I was tired. Learning how ( Read more... )

full of all kinds of stuff in the mail: paystub, letter I probably should have received months ago, Kohl’s circular, and mammogram results...

The mammogram was negative, btw.

How do I feel about the mammo results? I have mixed emotions. This time last year, I got a letter that said the same thing and recommended I come back in a year. If I hadn't ( Read more... )

So, just fyi, this has nothing to do with breast cancer or any of that stuff (although I do want to say that yesterday was my 6 month surgeversary {surgiversary, I have no idea how it's spelled})...

Tonight, on Fox news, they are running a story about a 13 year old girl named Hana Hwang. She has something called progeria, which makes her age 8-10 ( Read more... )

On the couch still. This being a grown up is tough. I'm not quite used to it yet, now that Mom had to return to work so the office runs smoothly as possible when my father was allowed near his appointment calendar. That's never a good thing. Just kidding... mostly.

Hair update: I am down to checking every other day now. That's progress, right?
One ( Read more... )

So, now that chemo is over, I've found myself waiting again, like at the beginning of this journey. I had to wait to see the radiation oncologist and for the CAT scan and for treatment planning to begin. Not that I'm complaining, necessarily. I'd rather they plan this thing out right than just draw a big X and aim somewhere in its vicinity. This ( Read more... )

Suddenly it's 2012 (okay, more than halfway into the first month) and I haven't updated anything. Not since Thanksgiving. In a nutshell, I started the second drug regimen. Four DD Taxol treatments. It made me TIRED like the anemia really never did. And I thought the first 4 rounds sucker punched me... Actually, the majority of the SEs I had on the ( Read more... )