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Oct 2024
Sep 2024
- Whimsy (Scrap-Book)
- Elliot Lake (Scrap-Book)
- Halloween (Scrap-Book)
- Thomasin Visit (Scrap-Book)
- Balm Beach (Scrap-Book)
- Hospital Outside (Scrap-Book)
- Keep Moving Forward (We Interupt this Regularly Scheduled Scrapbook Post for a Health Update) (Scrap-Book)
- Minnow Returns (Scrap-Book)
- Mt. Sinai (Scrap-Book)
- Pumpkin Patch (Scrap-Book)
- Toronto Zoo (Scrap-Book)
- Poodle Pals (Scrap-Book)
- In This Moment (Scrap-Book)
- Cats Night Round 2 (Scrap-Book)
- Hospice VLog September 9th (Hospice)
- Tiny Marsh (Scrapbook) (Scrap-Book)
- Three years since my first public cancer complaint (Look-Back)
- Manitoulin Island (Scrap-Book)
- Hospice Part 9, the final hospice video (but hospice videos will continue) (Hospice)
- New Friends (Halloween Edition) (Scrap-Book)
- Hospital Hallways Reprise (Scrap-Book)
- Two New Friends! (An oxygen tank and my very own walker) (Scrap-Book)
- Mortality and Hospice (Look-Back)
- Surprise Visit! (Scrap-Book)
- Haliburton Sculpture Garden (Scrap-Book)
- Collingwood Millenium Overlook (Scrap-Book)
- Coldwater Canadiana Heritage Museum (and home for haunted dolls) (Scrap-Book)
- Ghouls are still out there (Look-Back)
- Hair Style Lightning Round (Look Back)
- Look-Back x2: Oncologist panic (Blog)
Aug 2024
- Broth Buddy After Dark (Scrap-Book)
- Cats like furry constellations lap up the Milky Way (Scrap-Book)
- Minnow the Corgi (Scrap-Book)
- Big Chute Marine Railroad (Scrap-Book)
- Hospice Part 8, I lost the joy for a moment (Hospice)
- Maverick the Golden Retriever (Scrap-Book)
- Healy 2019 (Scrap-Book)
- Hospice Part 7, August 23, 2023 (Hospice)
- Dying My Hair (Scrap-Book)
- Windemere: 2008 (Blog)
- Deer Trail Touring Route (Scrap-Book)
- Science North - Main Hall (Scrap-Book)
- Science North - Exhibition Space (Scrap-Book)
- Hospice Part 6, corgwen, a concert, and shopping (Hospice)
- Elliot Lake (the actual lake) Beach Day at Spruce Beach (Scrap-Book)
- Huntsville - Tom Thompson and Wood Fired Pizza (Scrap-Book)
- Fed is Best: The Taco Bell Quest (Scrap-Book)
- The Band (Scrap-Book)
- James Meets a Corgi (Scrap-Book)
- Hospital Halls (Scrap-Book)
- We All Have a Beautiful Story to Tell (Scrap-Book)
- Broth Buddies (Scrap-Book)
- King's Highway 17, Highway 108 Turnoff to Echo Beach (Scrap-Book)
- My First Cancerversary (Scrap-Book)
- Cats Night at the Hospice (Scrap-Book)
- Today I Choose Life: A Cancer Eon Scrapbook (Scrap-Book)
- Hospice Part 5, breakfast (Hospice)
- Making Friends with the Darkness (Hospice)
- Cats (2019) is a Perfect Movie (Blog)
- Perfect Tinsil Like Nostalgia (Blog)
- Hospice Part 4, conscious final goodbyes (Hospice)
- Hospice Part 3, nostalgia and juice (Hospice)
- Second Cancerversary Video (Video)
- Hospice Part 2, vaccuum pumps for drinking (Hospice)
Jul 2024
Jun 2024
May 2024
Apr 2024
- A day off with Thomasin (Blog)
- Unpacking (Blog)
- Sadie (Blog)
- Lying in bed (Blog)
- Moving Day! Part 3 (Blog)
- Moving Day! Part 2 (Blog)
- Moving Day! Part 1 (Blog)
- Thomasin doesn't care for moving (Blog)
- Partial Bowel Obstruction Part 7: Discharged (Blog)
- Partial Bowel Obstruction Part 6: Hydromorphone (Blog)
- Partial Bowel Obstruction Part 5: Still in Georgian Bay General (Blog)
- Partial Bowel Obstruction Part 4: Ice Cream (Diary)
- Partial Bowel Obstruction Part 3: NG Tube (Diary)
- Partial Bowel Obstruction Part 2 (Diary)
- Partial Bowel Obstruction Part 1: ER Visit (Diary)
- Hindsight Pizza (Blog)
- Chemo course three over (Diary)
- Moving Anxiety (Diary)
- Finished Chemotherapy (Blog)
- Magical Miricale Medicine Found! (Blog)
- My magic drugs aren't available (Blog)
- Hydration Frustration (Blog)
- My final southwest adventure for now (Blog)
- Finding That Song (Blog)
- Final Taco Bell (Blog)
- Energy Drinks (Blog)
Mar 2024
- Bipolar Awareness Day (Blog)
- What dreams may come... (Blog)
- Lashing out (Blog)
- Pre-chemo exhaustion update (Blog)
- Pre-chemo exhaustion (Blog)
- Talking about poop (Blog)
- Maybe this is why geese are known to be so angry... (Blog)
- Chemo remains difficult, even with magic medicine (Diary)
- PICC Nostalgia (Blog)
- Pre-chemo chores (Blog)
- Moving to Elliot Lake? (Diary)
Feb 2024
Jan 2024
Dec 2023
Nov 2023
- Breaded (Blog)
- Hair Deforestation Update (Blog)
- Beard Deforestation Update (Blog)
- Excitement and Mania (Blog)
- Immunocompromised Already (Look-Back)
- Werthers for the Cold (Blog)
- Nickel City (Blog)
- Dance (hypo)Mania (Blog)
- Karaoke for Cats (Blog)
- Guide to Identifying Waterfowl (Blog)
- A minor illness for a change... (Blog)
- Twitting (Blog)
- Video: November 13th, 2023 (Video)
- Seven Day Forecast (Blog)
- Paradise (Blog)
- Shower Update (Blog)
- Cyborg Implants (Blog)
- IV Selfies (Blog)
- CD Collection (Blog)
- Chemotherapy, the same and worse (Diary)
- November 7, 2023 (Cycle 1, Day 1) (Blog)
- Back in the oncologist's office (Blog)
- The Return to the Chemo Suite (Diary)
Oct 2023
- Arby's Disapoints, but You've Still Gotta Try (Blog)
- You can feel the Port-a-Cath through the skin (Blog)
- Fast Food is a Gift I Wish to still Indulge In (Look-Back)
- My face through the decades (Blog)
- Cannibis for nausea (Blog)
- Perchloroperazine (Blog)
- The Port-a-Cath is in (Blog)
- Gravol is powerless (Blog)
- A house with two bathrooms (Blog)
- No level of hydration seems to help (Blog)
- Port-a-Cath day (Diary)
- Cause for celebration? (Blog)
- Sleep, hopefully not a side effect of the shot (Blog)
- Fake medicine is ruining the intnernet (Blog)
- I got both shots! (Blog)
- Returning to the Chemo Suite (Diary)
- Trips & Treatment (Diary)
- Lost my keys again (Blog)
- Ribben like stool (Blog)
- RIP tooth filling (Blog)
- Thanksgiving during the plague (Blog)
Sep 2023
- Its a negative (Blog)
- Picking apart symptoms (Blog)
- I broke a molar (Blog)
- The cancer eon (Blog)
- VLog: September 18th, 2023 (VLog)
- Pre-paliative CT scan #2 (Blog)
- VLog: September 17th, 2023 (VLog)
- The narratively correct ways to die of cancer (Blog)
- Anxiety: "You aren't dying right" (Blog)
- Tiny Marsh: Late Afternoon Lookout Loop (Video)
- VLog: September 14th, 2023 (VLog)
- PICC and chemo anniversaries (Diary)
- VLog: September 13th, 2023 (VLog)
- Precambrian-Ordovician Nonconformity outside Burleigh Falls, Ontario (Video)
- VLog: September 12th, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: September 11th, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: September 10th, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: September 9st, 2023 (VLog)
- I think this is the first time I posted about cancer (Look-Back)
- A Walk in Tiny Marsh (Video)
- VLog: September 4st, 2023 (VLog)
- Mortality (Diary)
- VLog: September 3st, 2023 (VLog)
- Science News: More people under 50 getting colorectal cancer (Blog)
- Chemotherapy and Hair (Lookback)
- VLog: September 2st, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: September 1st, 2023 (VLog)
- Revisiting Alcohol (Blog)
- Fake medicine (Blog)
- Look-Back: Oncologist panic, Death as a friend (Look-Back)
Aug 2023
- VLog: August 31th, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 30th, 2023 (VLog)
- The two oncologists (Look-Back)
- VLog: August 29th, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 28th, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 27th, 2023 (VLog)
- Being advertised to by my own suffering (Blog)
- Trading normalicy like currency (Look Back)
- Its funny how some things change (Look Back)
- VLog: August 24, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 23, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 22, 2023 - A little more (Video)
- VLog: August 22, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 21, 2023 (VLog)
- I'm still bad at selfies (Look Back)
- VLog: August 20, 2023 (VLog)
- Fake cancer cures (Look-Back)
- VLog: August 19, 2023 (VLog)
- Looking back at announcement day (Look Back)
- VLog: August 18, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 17, 2023 (VLog)
- Treatment on pause (Diary)
- VLog: August 16, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 15, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 14, 2023 (VLog)
- A discussion with the Cancer Centre dietician (Blog)
- VLog: August 13, 2023 (VLog)
- You know cannabis is legal in Ontario, right? (Look Back)
- VLog: August 12, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 11, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 10, 2023 (VLog)
- Its my biopsy anniversary (Blog)
- VLog: August 9, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 8, 2023 (VLog)
- Touring Northern Ontario (Diary)
- VLog: August 7, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 6, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 5, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 4, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: August 3, 2023 (VLog)
- First Cancerversary Video (Video)
- VLog: August 2, 2023 (VLog)
- First Cancerversary (Diary)
- VLog: August 1, 2023 (VLog)
Jul 2023
- Chemotherapy is life (Diary)
- What I think of my chemotherapy (Video)
- Resuming chemotherapy (Video)
- Tiny marsh geese (Video)
- VLog: July 31, 2023 (VLog)
- Trying on my Iron Ring (Blog)
- Pre-chemo restart blood work (Blog)
- VLog: July 30, 2023 (VLog)
- Ontario roadside attractions (Blog)
- VLog: July 29, 2023 (VLog)
- Carillons (Blog)
- Lots of bad anniversaries coming up (Look Back)
- VLog: July 28, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: July 27, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: July 26, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: July 25, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: July 24, 2023 (VLog)
- Return to Mt. Sinai (Diary)
- I'll never really get to use my licence (Look Back)
- VLog: July 23, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: July 22, 2023 (VLog)
- I'm going home (Diary)
- My Covid-19 anniversary (and a lot more coming) (Look-Back)
- VLog: July 21, 2023 (VLog)
- Moving towards a normal (Diary)
- VLog: July 20, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: July 19, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: July 18, 2023 (VLog)
- VLog: Introduction (VLog)
- About accents (Video)
- The staples are gone (Diary)
- Oncologist update (Diary)
- Oncologist anxiety (Blog)
- A trip to Espanola (Diary)
- What to get for a person with cancer (Blog)
- Jealous of Hank Green, but not for the reason you'd think (Blog)
- Pain killers and anti-clotting needles (Diary)
- Pain overwrites everything (Blog)
- Recovering from major surgery (Diary)
- PICC emergency (Diary)
- Death and dying (Diary)
Jun 2023
- What I learned from the surgeons and their report (Diary)
- Discharge day! (Diary)
- Hospitalization is coming to an end (Diary)
- A lot of updates, but not about cancer (Diary)
- The seige could not be broken (Diary)
- To the walls (Diary)
- Tomorrow is surgery day (Diary)
- Everything is ready, I leave tomorrow (Diary)
- Trying to see everyone (Diary)
May 2023
Apr 2023
Mar 2023
Feb 2023
Jan 2023
Dec 2022
Nov 2022
- End of course one CT scan (Diary)
- The neutrophil shot (Diary)
- Sixth time to the chemo centre (Diary)
- My immune numbers crashed (Diary)
- A trip to the zoo (Diary)
- Sometime, my last best day will come (Diary)
- Support groups (Diary)
- Easiest chemo yet (Diary)
- A thirteen day cycle (Diary)
- Wigs and synthesizers (Diary)
Oct 2022
- The normal and the surreal (Diary)
- Being able to forget (Diary)
- Good days pay for the chemo days (Diary)
- Pumpkinferno 2022 (Diary)
- Avastin, again (Diary)
- Avastin, side effects and mortality (Diary)
- Signs of winter (Diary)
- Ending cycle 2 (Diary)
- Thanksgiving 2022 (Diary)
- Scarves are way more useful now (Diary)
- Sweater weather forever (Diary)
- First Thanksgiving after diagnosis (Diary)
- First visit to Mt. Sinai (Diary)
- Tomorrow I visit Mt. Sinai (Diary)
- Back at the marsh (Diary)
Sep 2022
- Cycle two (Diary)
- I already know cycle two will be easier (Diary)
- Cancer can spoil art for you (Diary)
- Things are already going better after one cycle (Diary)
- Making the most of my time, Midland edition (Diary)
- I learned to paint my nails (Diary)
- Silly selfies (Diary)
- Averted emergncy post! (Diary)
- Superstar, criminal kittycat & pumpkins (Diary)
- Good days are possible with chemo (Diary)
- A relaxing afternoon (Diary)
- Feeling good five days after chemo (Diary)
- The beard is gone (Diary)
- The bottle is gone (Diary)
- The first chemo bottle day (Diary)
- The first visit to the chemo suite (Diary)
- The night before chemotherapy (Diary)
- PICC install day (Diary)
- On the types of chemotherapy (Diary)
- What is a PICC? (Diary)
- Phone Anxiety (Blog)
- A walk at the marsh (Diary)
- My first visit to an arcade (Diary)
- Sushi thief (Diary)
- Monochromatic light (Diary)
- Do Kissenger Next (Blog)
- At the beach, on the patio (Diary)
- Late night, on the beach (Diary)
- A Kitty cat break (Diary)
- An ice cream break (Diary)
- Officially off work (Diary)
- Another morning squish (Diary)
- Evening squish (Diary)
- Fruit flies (Blog)
- Afternoon squish (Diary)
- Tiny Marsh (Diary)
- A morning squish (Diary)
- Hair colour lightning round (Blog)
- Time is too much (Diary)
- Dye in daylight (Diary)
- The dye job: Dying (Diary)
- The dye job: Bleaching (Diary)
- The dye job: Before bleaching (Diary)
- How was your visit with the Cancer Centre? (Blog)
- The dye job: Morning of (Diary)
- Later, in the dark of the night (Diary)
- A visit with the oncologist (Diary)
- Stage Four (Blog)
- Done work for ??? (Diary)
- The last day of work before treatment (Diary)
- Oncologist panic (Blog)
Aug 2022
- Insurance forms (Blog)
- Keeping secrets is hard, but necessary, for now (Diary)
- Two oncology teams (Blog)
- The difficult sort of phone call (Diary)
- Work's end is near (Diary)
- After a day trip to Barrie, Ontario (Diary)
- Post colonoscopy (with good results, given the situation) (Diary)
- Introducing Nessie (Blog)
- I finally have painkillers! (Blog)
- Colonoscopy discomfort (Blog)
- Appointent Friday (Blog)
- Faking it for the maintenance team (Blog)
- Late night selfies (Diary)
- An important decision (Diary)
- An evening at the breakwater (Diary)
- New friend! (Blog)
- Some light retail therapy, the start of an addiction (Diary)
- Coke Dreamworld (Blog)
- Taste still hasn't returned (Blog)
- Fake medicine ads (Blog)
- The results are in, its appendex cancer (Diary)
- Bad news (Blog)
- A visit to Thornbury antiques (Diary)
- CBD (Blog)
- The day after the biopsy (Diary)
- Back from Northern Ontario, still working (Diary)
- I told my parents today (Diary)
- There are a lot of tests (Diary)
- I learned I had cancer today (Diary)