by Kandis | Jun 12, 2023 | Day to Day
Though my last chemotherapy treatment isn’t even two weeks in my past, my hair has already started to come back. Most people would still be losing their hair but I’m beginning to believe that nothing about this process has been normal for me. My new hair...
by Kandis | May 31, 2023 | Day to Day, Treatment Updates
I am walking towards tomorrow with an intense mix of emotions. Am I ready to have chemo behind me? Absolutely. Am I ready for what lies ahead? No way – there is so far to go in this journey and none of it is going to be easy. Many have told me that this is the...
by Andy | May 28, 2023 | Day to Day, Hope, Provision
I mindlessly scrolled through the current news feed on my phone while I sat on the beach at Lake Erie, the sun shining across the water… the headline of an article caught my attention: “Sometimes, It Makes Me Cry”: Once Hailed as the Epitome of Human Physique,...
by Kandis | May 17, 2023 | Day to Day, Treatment Updates
Tomorrow is my second to last chemo treatment! We’re already 75% finished with chemo and after tomorrow we will be more than 87% finished. You’d think I’d be a pro at this process by now but each treatment feels like starting over. Every treatment is...
by Kandis | May 16, 2023 | Day to Day
Every morning my brain replays the old Almond Joy & Mounds commercial that said something along the lines of “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t!” Then, it replaces the the word nut with hair or hat. For a long time, I...
by Kandis | May 7, 2023 | Day to Day, Treatment Updates
We’ve had several texts and phone calls checking in to see if the super low dose steroids are working to eliminate the joint pain I experienced after my first Taxol treatment for this second treatment, so I figured it would be best to toss up a quick post to...