✨❤️ ✨ CLEAN SCANS ! ✨❤️✨
We made everyone on the team confirm the scans were clean - including my interventional radiologist, Dr Sophocleus, over telemedicine....
Learning how to live, while trying not to die
A story about my stage 4 colon cancer journey,
growing to trust my inner voice, and how cancer became the best worst thing that ever happened to me
- Sep 6
- 3 min
A big week and a double ask
The week is going to be a big week! First up: scans at MSK tomorrow, with results on Wednesday—and then the launch of Strive for Five on...
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- Aug 15
- 3 min
Back to our regularly scheduled health update
I realize that my last post was full of philosophy and absent any sort of health update, so wanted to share the latest. I was at...
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- Aug 5
- 3 min
My steroid life
After I was saved from Friday’s wrong train calamity by two of my favorite Starcom alums, I was able to settle into what turned out to be...
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- Jul 30
- 5 min
Steroids Star Save
It’s been so fun to be on the receiving end of celebratory texts - most of which ask how I am, besides being elated. And I am happy -...
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- Jul 27
- 2 min
Back to NED!
After all the pregnancy drama, I did NOT end up getting a pre-ablation ultrasound. I did however arrive to celebrity status. “Oh! You’re...
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- Jul 23
- 2 min
False Positive
Less than a week after landing from our trip to Norway, we were back on a plane, heading to New York for my pre-op in preparation for...
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- Jun 23
- 1 min
A little bad news
We got a little bad news yesterday. Gina has a small tumor in her liver. It’s right on the edge of where they did the radiation...
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- Jan 20
- 1 min
In pursuit of “all clear”
At dinner last night, Per and I tried to temper our expectations about what kind of news we could expect today. Because radiation’s...
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- Jan 3
- 1 min
Healthy and done in 2021 (almost)!
“Healthy and Done in 2021” was an excellent goal, but Covid snuck in just under the wire, with four cases in our household thus...
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- Nov 16, 2021
- 1 min
More treatment ahead
It’s always more fun (and faster) to share good news than less-good news. Last week, Gina’s scans picked up a recurrence in the same spot...
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