Dec 10, 2013 | Jan's Blog |
Tweet I have a PET/CT scan scheduled for Dec. 17th, and a meeting with my interventional radiologist on Dec. 24th. This is the year’s check up on the cryoablation that he did a year ago on the tumor in my right lung. I am interested not only in what has happened to...
Oct 29, 2013 | Jan's Blog |
In the movie, The Living Matrix, a woman named Ariel learns to love her brain cancer, and then it disappears. She says that the miracle isn’t that it disappeared, but that she could learn to love it. I’ve thought a lot about this, and haven’t gotten past the paradox....
Aug 28, 2013 | Jan's Blog |
Tweet The PET/CT scan of August 12th was compared with the one I had about 6 months ago. The final impression on the report was that my stage 4 metastatic breast cancer is “stable.” It still feels a little scary to me to read “stage 4 metastatic.” I used to think...
Jul 15, 2013 | Jan's Blog |
Tweet For the first time in 12 years, I used all my vacation time for this year. Traveling in Spain and Morocco for the month of May with Robbie and Carol was so engaging that I didn’t think much about cancer. I had a fantastic time. I saw architectural wonders,...
May 25, 2013 | Jan's Blog |
Tweet After a busy 19 days of traveling, we are taking an afternoon off and I have time to write. I’m on a 26 day trip with two friends, Carol and Robbie. It’s easy to live in the present and the “now” when it’s all so new and it keeps changing....
May 13, 2013 | Jan's Blog |
Tweet I’m writing this on a plane on my way to Madrid, Spain, starting a four week trip with two friends, Carol Purin and Robbie Lambert. We are going to Morocco, many Spanish cities, and ending up in Barcelona. I haven’t taken a vacation like this for 45...
