Our new Douglas mattress flew into town yesterday via Air North. And our new bed frame and headboard arrived by freight! And our new bedside lamps arrived by mail. What…
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Chemo round #4, day 7
I’m coming back to life again! Chemo round #4 has been … nice? Well maybe not nice but a bit better than expected. While I was receiving my hours of…
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PICC is placed, and I slept!
Yesterday was a long ridiculous day full of adventure. It started with a 3:30am fire alarm in the hotel and I just couldn’t get back to sleep after that. At…
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Hanging out in Whitehorse
Usually when I make these medical trips to Whitehorse, everything falls neatly into place. But it didn’t this time. Somehow due to last minute appointment changes, scheduling at the hospital,…
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Come to me Douglas. Let me lie on you.
Sleep has become incredible difficult for me lately. I’ve never had this problem before. I used to be able to sleep anywhere, on anything, and through anything. Now I’m awake…
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Happy New Year!
Looking back, 2018 was a terrific year! Yeah really it was, despite the cancer diagnosis, surgery, chemo, radiation, and being off work for half the year, it really was a…
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Merry Christmas!
Wishing you all a lovely holiday!
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Home sweet home
I’m home, and it is so nice to be home!! I finished Radiation last Monday. It felt so good to put my gowns into the hospital laundry hamper and walk…
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Two more!
Two more radiation treatments and then I can FINALLY GO HOME!! I’m so eager to go home. I’m managing the best I can, and my radiation oncologist is really pleased…
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Radiation.. so what’s it like?
I’ve finished the first 7 of the 25 radiation doses I need. So far so good! The side effects are supposed to kick in hard next week, so I’m just…
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A real gift of a week, soon heading back to Vancouver
Well I was bummed about having to wait a couple weeks for radiation treatment to start, but this past week was a real gift! Just on Sunday or Monday, the…
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Poked, prodded, scanned, and tattooed. What a week!
This week was fun! I had a cat scan in Whitehorse, requested by the radiation oncologist in Vancouver. She wanted the same cat scan done that I had in May…
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Video recap of September, new fridge, and updates
Here’s my video recap of September, in one second snips. New fridge! The fridge that came with this house was fairly new, and worked well, but it was so annoying!…
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A live orchestra, Justin Beaver, really dead animals, black flies, hash, and chemo will proceed!
Last weekend my cousin took me to the Palace Grand’s grand re-opening! This was particularly exciting since I had never been in the Palace Grand because it’s been closed for…
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Some fall pics
Here are some pictures of our fall colours from my iPhone. From our front porch where I was reading a book yesterday afternoon. What’s this in the street in front…
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Chemo round 2, day seven
Whew, chemo is no joke. I try to be all tough and power through it, and then I’m in bed, legs twitching in pain, unable to even watch tv, falling…
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August video recap
Here’s my one second a day recap of August. Warning: it’s mostly Hank. And if you don’t see the video above, click through to visit my blog and you should…
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The perks of being bald
I’m officially a cueball now! I wasn’t upset with the first buzzcut trim or the hair falling out, but shortly after it was down to under an inch long, the…
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Buzzcut!
When I brushed my hair this morning, I knew it was for the last time. I cleaned out my brush last night and it was full again just from one…
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Updates and whatnot
It’s looking more and more like fall here. The leaves are changing and falling, we’re getting the fall rains, and it is cool. Shorts season left a week or so…
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