This daily hell ( Read more... )

How do you say goodbye to a year that has both blessed and cursed you? How do you welcome in a New Year with all the promise it brings while you live in fear of more health problems, and while you watch while people with your kind of cancer drop away ( Read more... )

I swiped this from archanglrobriel :

1. What did you do in 2011 that you'd never done before?
Lots of things, went to the hospital in an ambulance, had major surgery, first cancer diagnosis, first being "the cancer patient".

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't make any. I think it's counter- ( Read more... )

Things have gotten really bad financially lately and I'm wracking my brain trying to figure out how to get myself out of this mess. With everyone cutting back I feel awful for asking for help, but a friend told me there are people out there willing to help. So here's the deal, I'm asking for help to pay my mortgage, electric, phone, and to buy some ( Read more... )

I know I haven't posted over here in ages but I've been caught up in the cancer hamster wheel this year, as we all know. My last surgery was in June, having the tumor behind my knee removed and I wrote all about it over at http://www.itsonlymelanoma.blogspot.com/ so you can ( Read more... )

New posts are up at http://www.itsonlymelanoma.blogspot.com/

Enjoy, y'all.

I haven't posted here in ages, I'm posting more over in my cancer journal, so if you're interested, go over there to read what's going on with me lately.

It's Only Melanoma

Also, I have to say a personal HUGE THANK YOU to Martha, (). I got one of those notices the other day from the post saying I had a registered letter to pick up and all I could ( Read more... )

I have a new journal at http://itsonlymelanoma.blogspot.com/ about my cancer journey, which is still in progress. For those of you that are interested and won't get depressed, don't mind me going "on and on" about having cancer, please feel free to read me over there ( Read more... )

I had a feeling this tumor was benign, but I knew it had to come out, otherwise I would always wonder.. and be scared. So on Monday Mom and I headed over to the ortho oncologist for a pre-pre-op checkup. I got to ask questions and get the play-by-play from Doc Onc and his trusty sidekick Mr Fellow (who is actually kinda cute). Once I was done there ( Read more... )

Home from the hospital and doing good. Limping around with a walker and have a big blue velcro leg immobilizer on my leg from the top thigh to the ankle. Pain is easy peezy. Pathology came back... no cancer, just an annoying benign tumor. Yay!! Now to heal....