Searching for hope
Today is my 3rd rebirthday. While it is important to acknowledge this milestone, I am not feeling very celebratory. The inevitable has...
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Schedule 1
A documentary short about Cannabis and Cancer
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- Feb 1, 2019
- 3 min
THC TLC?
Two days ago I returned home from a lovely week in Breckenridge with my parents. We marveled at the icy art of the International Snow...
- Dec 6, 2018
- 1 min
Bragging on myself
OK, so I'm tossing humility out the window and gonna brag on myself a wee bit. Yesterday at 1 o'clock: a 90 minute gym workout -- 25 min...
- Nov 17, 2018
- 3 min
Thankful, grateful, appreciative, indebted....
It's that time of year when as a nation we collectively count our blessings. For me, that has become a daily practice. There are not...
- Sep 6, 2018
- 2 min
Amazing Australia
We returned home from an amazing Australian Adventure to the final stages of a bathroom remodeling adventure. We are thrilled two have...
- Aug 1, 2018
- 2 min
Crashing! through Europe
We spent the past two weeks soaking up some much needed R&R in Breckenridge after our Rick Steves “Heart of Europe” tour. We hit some...
- Jun 18, 2018
- 3 min
What haven't we been up too?
I bumped into my friend Loren at TJ's. As usual, he greeted me with a radiant smile and a big hug. "Michelle," he said, "where have you...
- Mar 8, 2018
- 1 min
2nd Rebirthday celebrated with clear PET scan results and re-remission
It has been an emotionally exhausting week. March 3rd was my second "re-birthday," the anniversary of my surgery at Churchill Hospital. ...
- Feb 16, 2018
- 2 min
Valentines date with Taxel/Carbo
I spent Valentine's Day on my last date with Carboplatin and Paclitaxel, with my doting Mom as chaperone. Unfortunately the date didn't...
- Jan 23, 2018
- 1 min
Chemo Eve
Chemo # 4 came and went in betwixt the chaos of three separate evacuations: fire/ash, rain, and flood. Tonight is the eve of chemo # 5...
- Dec 17, 2017
- 1 min
A week in Bardo......
A week in Bardo We spent the past four days sheltering from the Thomas Fire flames and smoke at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara on the Gaviota...
- Nov 22, 2017
- 1 min
My Thanksgiving menu
Appetizer: a nice cocktail of steroids and three anti nausea meds Main Course: 50 milligrams of Avastin Side dish: 309 milligrams of...
- Nov 14, 2017
- 1 min
Support soup delivery for cancer patients
Thank you everyone for the numerous and varied offers of support this past month. I have an easy way you can make a positive difference...
- Oct 30, 2017
- 3 min
CHEMO day- Let’s KILL some cancer cells
Back in June, I took a hard hat tour of the almost finished Cancer Center. Bruce and I made a donation and were offered a tour as a...
- Oct 19, 2017
- 2 min
not the birthday post I hoped to write
This post was supposed to be about my 45th birthday. I have dubbed today my "50% birthday," setting the intention that I am only 50...
- Sep 5, 2017
- 1 min
Yay for being normal
My bloodwork is normal! I have made it one year post chemo -- four more years to go and I got this monster beat! This weekend we...
- Aug 17, 2017
- 1 min
Link to older blog posts
Still reading? If you want to venture back and read the beginning of this sage, the oldest posts are here. I am in the process of...
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