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HEALTH UPDATE: Hi everyone! It’s spa day! I’ve got my feet up and the poison is drip, drip, dripping. Kill something today, would you? Be nice to my healthy cells and kick the snot out of the rotten ones, please! I’m feeling pretty good. One might say I’m still recovering from last week but overall,Continue reading “Ramble On”

HEALTH UPDATE: The world tour (Okay, Milwaukee and MN) of opinions is complete. The best news I heard during our travels is that the Shamrock Shake will be back on February 19th and for the first time in my life my Dr. says I should eat all the calories that I can. This makes meContinue reading “Sunshine”

HEALTH UPDATE: Froedtert appointments have been completed. I had new scans and labs done very early Monday morning. Dear sister Melanie insisted she attend the scans even though I felt fully capable to take care of it myself. Thank goodness she helped me! I would have been curled up in a corner sucking my thumbContinue reading “Tired”

HEALTH UPDATE: Round #4 of chemo was completed on Wednesday. My blissful days immediately following chemo have been downgraded from blissful to okay, I can still do this. Meh. As each week passes and the treatments continue, I am noticing more challenges. I’m not about to complain about this as I know that this couldContinue reading “#4”

HEALTH UPDATE: Living the dream over here on Engelhart Drive. Winding down on another chemo cycle. The chemo was administered last week on Wednesday, January 15th. As usual, the first three days were pure bliss. I felt like a puppy! Running, playing, licking! Okay, not really. But I got a lot of work done andContinue reading “If I knew then what I know now………”

HEALTH UPDATE: Long day yesterday. I crashed hard! Slept so good. Feeling pretty good today after chemo yesterday. Ramblings….. Before the breaking news occurred yesterday, I wanted to share thoughts about the Carbone Cancer Clinic at UW Hospital. My family is no stranger to this clinic. My Dad was treated there as was Tom’s brother.Continue reading “You can’t unsee this alert”

HEALTH UPDATE: I’m at UW Hospital as I write this update. Drip, drip, drippity, drip! On the last drug for this day, the third chemo treatment. I’ll get hooked up to my pump and back home to my darlings. I’ll come back on Friday for pump removal and to have infused a bag of fluidsContinue reading

HEALTH UPDATE: Completed second chemo treatment January 3rd. They checked my labs prior to the treatment. I was cleared for treatment. I then met with a wonderful NP that went over all my symptoms from the first treatment. She took them one by one and had solutions for them to try. So far it’s workingContinue reading “Deep thoughts…by Cathy”

HEALTH UPDATE FOR MY MOM: Please say some prayers for my mom as she is in the hospital in Fort Atkinson with the flu. Sister Chris is also sick. Your prayers are appreciated! HEALTH UPDATE: Recap of events. Went to ER Friday night with a temp of 102.4. Was admitted to UW Hospital and testedContinue reading “Home sweet home”

HEALTH UPDATE: WOMP WOMP!!! I’m NOT going home!!! They found the infection! My hero nurse brought in my discharge papers and all she needed to do was remove the tubes and stuff from my port. That’s all! Bag was packed, I was ready! She removed everything without incident. She was washing my skin around theContinue reading “Just kidding!”