Loose Strife

Right now Laura’s really exhausted. When I got home this evening she said, “I feel like I was hit by a train today.” My mother, who has thankfully stayed with us for the past 2 weeks, was frightened when Laura almost fainted late this morning. We’ve been trying to get fluids and calories into her. […]

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Laura began chemotherapy today. The 2nd opinion oncologist from Dana Farber finally made contact this morning and agreed with the treatment plan. So Laura spent the afternoon starting a chemotherapy treatment that will last through the end of the year and is administered every three weeks. She is taking “AC”, which is a combination of […]

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[ Ray’s going to be pissed off with me for sharing this, but hey, we all need some levity around here and, Ray, almost nobody from Ashfield reads this blog…. ] My neighbor, Ray, has helped me out too many times in the last year. Somehow I keep getting my tractors stuck in the mud […]

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Laura thinks that a move to chemo is inevitable at this point. I agree that we seem to have both come around to it. Just the same, we’ll be in touch with our “2nd opinion” oncologist in Boston hopefully tomorrow before making the next move. We thought that hormone therapy hadn’t been given enough time. […]

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Some folks are wondering why this chemotherapy decision is so important. Since most of us associate chemo as the standard cancer treatment, isn’t this expected? Well, the answer is mostly simple, but slightly complicated. Here’s a little cancer school. When cancer spreads to other organs, the cancer cells that have invaded are still of the […]

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