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the latest developments in the brain of Laurie K

I have been planning for ages to return to writing in this space and feeling a bit guilty about it. I've just been really busy with other writing, volunteering, having fun and getting...

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the wisdom of my therapist

I've been seeing a therapist for a couple of years and, at this point, she knows me really well. I honestly don't know how I would have lived through the last couple of years without her and only wish...

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patience

I am being taught a lesson in patience. I finished the last of my radiation on December 7. They told me it would be two to three weeks before I feel like myself again. It's only been 11 days but I feel...

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Be. Here. Now. (an update)

I just had a bath to help me relax. I plopped a bath cube in the water and immediately started to worry that it was the last one and that I needed to make time to get more."Be. Here. Now."Then my phone...

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seriously.

If you are reading this post on a site other than Not Just About Cancer (besides Facebook or a feed reader), you are reading stolen content.

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inconclusive

Today's appointment did not work out as I had hoped, in that there weren't a lot of answers.I was kind of hoping that I'd go in today, get the results from my test and talk about a plan of action for...

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at least i know what to expect on the table

I have a new tumour.I will be doing Cyber Knife some time soon. I don't have a date yet but I'm not worried about that. They are on it.Both my oncologists (radiation and medical) are not just good and...

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Cyber Knife is radiation (and other news)

First of all, thanks to you all for giving me all this space. It has meant a lot to me.I'm ready for questions now and to talk about it but first I have to have lunch and then go to Cyber Knife...

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good things

Time for another one! What would yours be?In random order, the things that make me happy these days:Lynn Miles.Billy Bragg.Tea.Thinking about Canadian travel.Colours.Massage and reflexology.My friends...

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the latest

I wrote this in the form of a letter a few days ago. Doing so has been a huge relief to me. I know that it's not the same for everyone but expressing myself in this way has been both calming and...

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beating the blood brain barrier

Ouch! My writing muscle hurts! I realized this week that I have not blogged since March 23. I have so much I want to say that I don't know where to start, so it feels a little overwhelming. About 10...

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may you live in interesting times

It's been two weeks since my surgery and for some reason, I thought this would be the easy part. I don't really know why I thought that, except that both my surgeon a and my medical oncologist seemed...

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limbo and dreams (updated)

I am still in limbo. My head is healed and I feel more like myself, except for some odd symptoms (my jaw is still freezing shut intermittently for a minute or so. It's so annoying. And embarrassing....

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onward

There was a bit of a rocky start but I seem to be moving forward with treatment. Every Wednesday, for the rest of the summer, I will be getting Herceptin, injected through my Ommaya Reservoir. I'm not...

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grieving and treatment

My father passed away a couple of weeks ago (the night before I started IT Herceptin, in fact). His service was last week. It was small and private. I was very impressed with the priest who had never...

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update: stable

I have now had 17 intrathecal (injected into my brain) treatments of the Herceptin. I'm getting used to it.I had an brain MRI on September 15.It showed all visible tumours to be stable. There were no...

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time is running out

This is one of the very best and most powerful adds I have seen on breast cancer. And that is saying something.It's about living with metastatic breast cancer, less than 3 minutes long and very, very...

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i learned something from this one

This article explains why some of us get so annoyed when cancer "awareness" campaigns focus on saving the "girls" or the "tatas" or - well you know what I mean.Lots of food for thought here and I...

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every week. in pictures.

I have now had 24 treatments of Intrathecal Herceptin. A few weeks ago, my friend Karin came and took photos. They were for me (because I can't see my own head) and they helped me a lot to understand...

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progress and next steps

I had an MRI a couple of weeks ago and got the results last week. There has been slight progression in all three tumours in the brain.That's the bad news.The good news is that there are no new tumours...

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