In Print

Last week, I opened the mailbox and saw a package in there from CURE Media Group. I knew right away what it was and it was pretty exciting. They have published and printed this years edition of "Extraordinary Healers: CURE Readers Honor Oncology Nurses" and they sent me a printed copy of it. It was pretty cool to open it and see the essay in print along with a picture of Annette and myself and then an essay that Annette wrote (that was well done - but why would that be a surprise to anyone).

Not fishing for compliments here, but I also have a response of , "Not sure why this is a big deal. It really wasn't that hard to write it." But the next voice I hear is what I've said before, "I didn't write it. The person whom the essay was about wrote it. I added the words." 

The book will be available for purchase from the folks at CURE, but they haven't posted the link on their website yet.

So, where is the head of a cancer patient who is approaching being one year out from any kind of infusion and is a year and a half out from the last time chemo entered the body?

This is where I've read some of us are:

1) We miss the regular contact with the caregivers with who we were engaged in numerous visits over a short amount of time during one of the most dramatic times of our lives.

2) Is this persistent cough/congestion just like what everyone else is fighting, or how much longer do I fight it without a doctor visit?

3) Last night, a different kind of anxiety dream. One of being readmitted to MCV, but this time in a semi-private room. In the dream I was more concerned about sharing a room than I was about whatever I was being treated for. This morning, as I washed my hair in the shower, I thanked God for a spacious shower, not being hooked up to an IV line while I was showering, and for hair to shampoo and rinse (I know the amount of hair on my head is not as voluminous as some other heads of hair, but there is hair there. The bald spot is because the brain keeps asking for more room).

Up next...regular visit with the oncologist on Feb 24, 1.5 year followup with the MCV docs on Feb 25, and then a bone marrow biopsy sometime in the next month or so I would guess.

Oh yeh....for the first time in 3 years, I will be auditioning for a local theatre production on Monday night. I'll keep you posted on that. I guess that's another place where the head is. Not a bad place to go.


And just for fun. Love this!