21,000 women were diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year in the US. 16,000 of them did not survive ( Read more... )

this afternoon was utterly heart-rending. what can you do for someone you feel like a mother or a big sister to when she's miles and miles and miles away and traumatized & hurt? i can love her and let her know i love her unconditionally, but what else can i do? i don't want to presume to get in the way of her family, who is crowding around her now ( Read more... )

guess what color my hair has decided to start growing back in? BLONDE. i've heard of that happening to people after chemo, it comes back a different color or texture for a few months before going back to normal. i've got all my eyelashes & eyebrows coming back in but they're really short at the moment, and almost all light blonde so they're hard to ( Read more... )

i never used to take the time to wear mascara or any eye makeup really, but now that i have almost no eyebrows and no eyelashes at all, i have to wear eyeliner & brow pencil and such every day, and it actually looks ok enough that no one even notices its makeup unless i point it out up close.

oh my god, i'm gonna be so happy to have eyelashes back ( Read more... )

i'm starting to get sick. i went this entire winter on chemotherapy, which destroys your immune system, and didnt get a single cold. now that i'm done with treatment, i get one. how much sense does that make? i'm afraid it will be hard to shake off though because my immune system definitely still hasnt recovered, as my blood counts show from my ( Read more... )

this is a nice one:

leave a comment on this post, and i'll reply with a comment telling you why i like you! everyone could use a little niceness now & again.

so guess what's happening on march 23 AND march 24?

the decemberists are playing the avalon, THAT'S WHAT!! i am trying to figure out a way to go to both. i'm so excited i might actually die.

i feel like being a teenager and doing this one that's going around. i feel like i've done it before but it was probably a long time ago, therefore:

reply to this post and tell me what you truly think about me (anonymously or not)after all, it's thanksgiving day and i'm sitting here alone as my family has gone off and i'm housesitting. [have to ( Read more... )

so after having blood drawn (4 vials, dammit! that's more than enough!) and bits snipped out of me, it's been determined that as of now i am ok. i have to super-boost my immune system though and it could be bad for me to get sick, so i'm taking like 10 different pills a day now. some are prescription and some are just vitamin things, but man, it's ( Read more... )

i hate you, amazon.com! i cant stop buying books and i think its totally fucked up my order. if i get charged for things and never receive them, someone is going to be hurting. (it will probably be me, but it sounds more threatening that way. sigh.)