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Continue reading →: Four and more…
Tuesday was chemo #4. Monday and leading up to going to the oncologist on Tuesday, I was having a pity party. I didn’t want to go at all. The very thought of going there makes me want to vomit. I think my brain associates that building with sickness now. Walking…
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Continue reading →: 100%
Chance of recurrence? “100%” We met with the oncology surgeon yesterday at UT Southwest. The building was beautiful, very classy. I was nervous heading there, didn’t know what to expect, didn’t know what he would say. Traffic through Dallas at 7 in the morning is a bitch. Don’t recommend it…
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Continue reading →: Conversations
When I was 14, a freshman in high school, my Grandpa passed away at a younger age from lung issues. It was 8 days after my birthday. My mom, my sister, and I flew down to Palm Springs where they were living at the time and he passed away peacefully…
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Continue reading →: Chemo Round 2
This round was a lot harder on me. Not just physically but mentally it was tough. They gave me more anti nausea meds to help and they seemed to help, I was able to get more food down. My stomach didn’t like anything I ate though. Everything goes straight through…
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Continue reading →: PET Scan/Chemo
David and I are spending the majority of our day today in the infusion room at the oncologist. When they bring out your chemo it’s in this yellow bag full of fluids and they go over each one and have another nurse check the numbers on each bag to verify…
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Continue reading →: My Rock
This needed its owns post, I have stuff to update about today but I ran across this video and wanted to talk about it. This was us leaving home for the hospital on the day of my surgery, August 3rd, 2026. It was such a private moment but I wanted…
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Continue reading →: My body
Have you ever asked ChatGPT if it’s weird that you are worried to go into Costco with your port showing? I have. I asked Chat last week and it reassured me what the logical part of of my brain already knew. Nobody is staring and nobody cares. So, we went…
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Continue reading →: Chemo Round 1
I went to the oncologist yesterday to get disconnected from my lemon ball. I forgot that they put another device on me that gives me a shot sometime around 4pm today to help with my white blood cells. The nausea was awful. I couldn’t find anything to eat that sounded…
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Continue reading →: Here we goooo…..
I’ve posted on social media about my cancer diagnosis but I wanted to document the whole shebang, the good, the bad, the tears, and laughter. I knew nothing about chemo, not much about cancer before all this and if I can give anyone some tid bits of information for anyone…
The Life We Keep Living
My story of raising a family, staying present, and finding the good.
Hello,
I’m Cindy
Thank you for visiting my site and following along on this journey of beating Stage Four Colon Cancer.
