I haven’t been able to pick my head up for long enough to do anything, let alone write an update for this blog. They said it was going to get worse before it gets better, and they were right.  I’m in the shit and am so sick. My last day of radiation was Thursday. I … Continue reading Living with Cancer This Week

My voice is officially gone and I suddenly have so much to say.  My lifelong friend, Adina (literally since 2nd grade and BFF’s since 7th) went with me to my appointments at Dana Farber on Tuesday.  We had several hours to catch up, laugh at pictures of her hilariously large baby (her cute 5 month … Continue reading Overdue Thank You’s

My hair… I figured it out.  It’s not falling out from the chemotherapy; it’s falling out from the radiation.  And the shitty part is that it’s not going to grow back.  Radiation is different from chemo.  Radiation kills things dead like cancerous tumors and anything else in its path.  The cancer on my larynx is … Continue reading The Start of Week 6

Feeding Tube Wednesday was the worst Cancer day to date.  Last week was, as one friend put it, “Just Hold On” bad.  It started on Tuesday when I couldn’t get chemotherapy because my white blood cell counts were too low.  And they were too low because I was malnourished.  My protein levels weren’t where they … Continue reading The Feeding Tube

I was discharged from Beverly Hospital last week with antibiotics for pneumonia, and now steroid cream from Dana Farber for my neck, chest and face where they think the daily radiation could have caused the rash once my fever spiked so highly.  The dreaded feeding tube goes in on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving.  I … Continue reading More about Grace