Hairs!
So I was looking in the mirror yesterday, and realized something – I needed a shave. But something more than that. My beard is growing in. Still not quite the […]
chemotherapy
Payback is hell
Wow, chemo #3 hit me like a brick yesterday. Slept through part of it, which isn’t normal for me, and felt crappy through most of it. Woke up feeling crappy […]
Just the black hairs
My hair has been salt and pepper for at least the last 5 years or so – my beard probably even longer… and whiter. The hair loss has continued, but […]
Live from the chemo suite
I’m actually sitting in the chemo suite getting my 2nd chemo cycle while I’m writing this post. Annie had asked about what the place was like, since kids under 12 […]
Looking like a cancer patient
I was sitting at my desk yesterday pondering some obscure marketing idea and how best to implement it. As many bearded men are wont to do, I was running my […]
Swedish meatball?
When my oncologist told me that the meatball would shrink dramatically after the first chemo, I really didn’t expect this! It hardly deserves the term meatball anymore. Maybe “Swedish meatball.” […]
The incredible shrinking meatball
Happened to look in the mirror this morning and realized that the meatball has shrunk dramatically since I last took pictures. Even I, with my skeptic hat on, can’t deny […]
Flash frozen in the chemo suite
So, here I am blogging live from the chemo suite at Atlanta Cancer Care. If you’ve never been in one of these places before, it’s a big L-shaped room with […]
Coming out of the fog
This morning, they installed my new PowerPort in my chest, which they’ll use to deliver my chemo on Monday. When we were in pre-surgery prep, it was funny, because the same […]
Over the hump (and the lump.)
So today it was back to the oncologist, in a kind of bizarre sort of “hump day.” Today we got over the hump of diagnosis and start the slide into […]