I’ve been MIA since New Year’s because things haven’t been good. I feel like I’m always writing “bad news,” but the truth is that I haven’t caught much of a break. I didn’t think it was possible, but the fevers got worse than they were before. I spent a few days in a row … Continue reading Here I am…

Mike and I spent Christmas Eve and Christmas at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. We had just been there two days before in their Emergency Department (for nine hours) trying to figure out these mysterious fevers with temps now hovering around 104.  On the morning of Christmas Eve, I woke up with a fever, … Continue reading The Holiday Season

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