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Transitioning to a New Life
Transitioning to a New Life This week closes out my first three months of living with metastasized cancer. Stage IV Ovarian Cancer to be exact. As someone commented, “a bump in the road’ to which my...
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Transition to Retirement & Disability with a Party
It is Thanksgiving Holiday week – a ritual of gratitude for many in this culture. The wind howls, the rain (& snow!) falls, the last of the leaves can see their fate. I am excited for winter. These...
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Partying in the Face of Mortality
Thank you to everyone who made last Saturday night so special! I would say more but I am still too wiped out. (It will be nice when the post chemo fatigue fades.) Anyway, a long time ROP supporter and...
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Adapting to a (Too) Short 1st Remission
Last week was tough. Too many consults with doctors that crushed our few hopes. I am inoperable in the abdomen. I am inoperable in the chest. I am too high risk for radiation. Chemo is the only...
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Another Failed Chemo – Goodbye Doxil
Just a quick update….the burning is done. After completing 4 of the 6-8 intended rounds of doxil I will get no more. My burns were too severe (3rd degree) and the drug not effective enough. Alas. I...
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Updates
Thanks for bearing with me during the very hard months of August and September. I must say that my October, which kicked off with surgery, has been great! Being back in the embrace of treatment allows...
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The Flight of Val
My friends, She is gone. I got this simple post a day late. Weary from an all day cross-country plane trip, I now waited for the train that would take me towards my lodging. I was alone in every sense...
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Aging in Place
The Center for Disease Control defines aging in place as “the ability to live in one’s own home and community safely, independently, and comfortably, regardless of age, income, or ability...
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Almost One Full Year
This May 27th marks the close of my first year of blogging. I got into it by happenstance. Last May I was adjusting not only to entering the clinical trial at UPenn but also to the ambitious...
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