Julie can't eat cheese

I am back to work this week and my mom left too. She was here for 2 weeks to help during my recovery – which went so. much. better. this time around! Thankfully no rash and that made recovery much easier! I continue to have numbness and other than that, I feel really good overall.…

I’m a week out after surgery and overall, I feel pretty good. I tire easily though, so lots of couch time. My left upper arm (underside and back of arm) are numb as is the side of my chest and my armpit. I randomly feel pins and needles throughout my arm or sharp pains –…

Today (1/18) was surgery day again! Friends, this recovery already feels different/better. Here is the story: My surgeon called me last Thursday evening (1/12). I had just finished work and was driving home, so couldn’t take notes (hopefully I got all this right). He said he and the other surgeon had been talking more about…

Me either! But 2023 is the year I find out! It’s time to buy all the wigs I saved on Amazon – I have to have chemo. I’m not surprised (because my surgeon called it) but it was still a lot to take in. By the way, how many wigs is too many? I met…

So let’s start with some GREAT news: I had my CT and bone scans on 1/5 and there is NO evidence of metastatic disease. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Thank you to everyone for sending good vibes/positive energy/prayers! I promise I am also sending it back out into the universe. That was the short story – here are the…

I think when you get a life changing diagnosis, you come to expect the worst, but really, really hope for the best and so feel devastated when bad news comes. Maybe unconsciously, you only really prepared for the good news? I have never felt sick, so in many ways – all of this still seems…

I am at a weird point in recovery, where I am too tired to do much but I am also tired of laying around. I haven’t gotten any pathology reports or calls yet, so I expect I’ll get updates on 12/27 at my post op appt. I still have my drain in and could probably…

We arrived at Kaiser at 6:05am for my 6:15 check in. Because it was so quiet, they let Dan come back with me for prep. I had to cotton swab my nose twice in each nostril with a medicine to kill staph, I got meds for nausea, a nausea patch, and an IV put in.…

Waiting for an anxious person is torture. Questions to Dan over the last month: my head hurts, do you think my cancer spread to my brain? My back is hurting, do you think it moved to my bones? My neck is sore, neck cancer? I’m tired, cancer? Well, I’ve actually been tired for about 8…