If you’ve been reading the blog, then you know that my hair dresser (recently diagnosed with breast cancer) and I decided to take a pre-emptive strike and buzz our hair. It’s been three weeks and four treatments and I have not lost one small piece of hair. Every morning I wake up and look at […]

With the weather in CT being so darn cold, I have been wearing the hats my neighbor knitted me which are warm and soft. Another friend of mine dropped off a hat last week and I wasn’t quite sure where and when it might be appropriate, but I figured it out. When my first drum […]

I’ve finished 3 of 18 treatments as of this weekend and am placing a “shout out” for some recipes. After my first 6 treatments of carboplatin in 2008, I was left with a magnesium deficiency which I manage with daily magnesium oxide and another pill which fools my kidneys into reabsorbing the mag. Last week […]

Yesterday was a big day with my chemotherapy. No, I didn’t get another infusion, I had my head buzzed. A #2 buzz cut to be exact (couldn’t find the #1 attachment, but I’m not sure it would have made a huge difference). My hair probably won’t fall out for another two weeks but my hairdresser […]

Tomorrow, Monday March 17th marks a significant day in my journey with Ovarian Cancer. My hairdresser was recently diagnosed with cancer and she and I decided to mount a preemptive strike on our hair loss by removing it before it starts to fall out. At 9:30am tomorrow morning a few town papers, The Hartford Courant, […]

I want to describe some of the less obvious effects of the chemo I am getting. Less obvious because it involves taste. My cocktail, as people refer to it, consists of mainly two drugs. Taxol, which I get weekly, and Carboplatin which I get with the Taxol every three weeks. With my first go around […]

One of my passions in life is teaching drums to younger people. I currently have 13 students that I teach every other week and I absolutely love it when they come to the house and play. My students range in age from 10 to age 15 and they know what I am going through based […]

As part of the pre-surgery protocol for removing my tumor I was told that I would need to do a cleansing process, like you do before a colonoscopy. I was scheduled for surgery on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14th so I “prepped” on the 13th and had nothing to eat or drink after midnight. The surgery […]

The day I was to find out about my CT Scan results, I had an appointment with my hygienist to have my teeth cleaned. For those of you who don’t know me well, I have an issue with dentistry in that Novocain does little to nothing for me for major dental work. So when the […]

We had been going to the hospital almost every other week to take blood and do my CA 125 (cancer marker) test because my counts had begun to elevate. One day after the last test I was sipping my morning coffee and getting ready to head out to my first client of the day. The […]