Hiya. Here are the blog posts I have written. Many of them about battling breast cancer in 2020. I’m planning to write more technical posts soon and they will be included here as well. You can see my more tech-oriented posts on dev.to.
Feeling Better
I have been done with my AC chemo for almost 3 weeks (1 1/2 cycle) and I am starting to feel much like myself again. Over the last 5 months, treatment has caused a ton of changes to my daily life. Overall it wasn’t as bad as I had anticipated but I am so very…
Long Term
Hi, friends. Thanks for all of your kind words and support since I last wrote. I’m feeling much better this week. Last time was rough and I was depressed. I don’t know if it was the chemo, the steroids, the state of the world, or just the chemistry in my brain being off but I…
Cranky But Okay
I’m tired and cranky and I don’t want to do this anymore. I want the Doctor to come in their TARDIS and take me to the future. It doesn’t have to be far, maybe a year, and I promise I won’t Back to the Future anything – I just want this done. I think the…
One Month
One month from today, I will have my last chemo treatment *. This journey won’t be over in one month, but a big part of it will be. One more month until I stop going to Swedish weekly. One more month until my immune system starts to rebuild and my hair starts to come back….
But Wait… There’s More
More Appointments Remember last week when I was so excited about having to go to the hospital less… it turns out that was not the case. I went into the doctor this week, anxious about starting my new treatment and was met with way too much information that I really should have heard about last…
Timing
It feels odd to be writing about timing while living through cancer and COVID. While I do not believe that everything happens for a reason, I am a strong believer that things tend to work out. While I didn’t always recognize it at the time, a lot of things have timed themselves well for me…