Month: December 2016

Chemo has been particularly draining in this new cycle, but things are looking up a little. Yesterday we received a visit from Karen’s brother Bob, and her mother Agnes. It was a nice visit and we had a bite at a local restaurant. The visit really drained her and she virtually collapsed as soon as…

Karen’s chemo has started back up after a few weeks off while healing from an infection. It isn’t great timing to have the first week of chemo right before Christmas, but we already put it off last week so we could make the MCR Medical annual holiday party, and with the chemo actually working to…

  The author of the article below has some really great insights. I think the first couple items are of particular importance. We’ve always been concerned about illnesses in our household because of Karen’s other medical conditions, and the cancer diagnosis has only strengthened this concern for us. The author’s comments about unplanned home visits is…

This post is being added before anybody really knows about the site, so please don’t read this and think we forgot to tell you! I’m writing this more as a post to share some of what’s been going on for backstory when you do start coming here for updates. Karen’s going to make it to…

Round 3: An update on how things went at The James. It was a good appointment, not particularly productive, but I’m glad we went. There was a good amount of time spent talking to the care team which I found refreshing. The specialist initially assigned to my case focused on CUP (cancer of unknown primary),…