Cancer Selfies

VLog: August 17, 2023

I talk about the cricket

VLog: August 16, 2023

A trip to the zoo

VLog: August 15, 2023

I'm trying a longer walk today

VLog: August 14, 2023

More on the blog project

VLog: August 13, 2023

At the Big Chute Marine Railway, acomplishing things from my todo list

VLog: August 12, 2023

First time I mention the project you're reading right now

VLog: August 11, 2023

What my prognosis means, explained with geese

VLog: August 10, 2023

Its biopsy anniversary day!

VLog: August 9, 2023

Another nothing day

VLog: August 8, 2023

Recovery is still so, so slow (again)

VLog: August 7, 2023

Recovery is still so, so slow (featuring the noisy cricket)

VLog: August 6, 2023

I'm very tired from the weekend's activities

VLog: August 5, 2023

Back in Northern Ontario for a baby shower/family reunion. Also, today is another anniversary.

VLog: August 4, 2023

Still excited about the good news

VLog: August 3, 2023

Good news from the oncologist

First Cancerversary Video

On the second of August, 2022, I learned that I had cancer. Its now the second of August, 2023, and I'm throwing my First Cancerversary party. A Cancerversary marks an important date in the progression of your illness, good or bad. Starting treatment, a surgical date, the date you went into remission, or the date the cancer came back are all things I think we should be celebrating. Not because a bad thing happened to us, but because we are still here to experience it.

My 1st Cancerversary is a celebration of joy, life and survival (with a touch of death thrown in as a treat for me).

There is a diary post to go with this video.

VLog: August 2, 2023

Why I have so many Squishmallows, also its my Cancerversary! I made a video, too.

VLog: August 1, 2023

I have a surprise for you tomorrow tomorrow :)

What I think of my chemotherapy

This is not about medicine as a discipline, talk to your medical oncologist for that. This is about how I relate to my treatment, and how that has changed as I've received it, and as the purpose of that treatment has changed.

Resuming chemotherapy

I've been off chemotherapy for nearly four months, and my treatment plan calls for three month courses of chemo followed by three month breaks to recover. My break was longer because I had done eight months of chemo and then had HIPEC surgery to recover from.

It's now time to plan the next six cycle course of treatment.