I'm a surviving and thriving stage four breast cancer warrior. I've had some sudden and dramatic weight gain after my diagnosis three and a half years ago and subsequent and ongoing treatment and am working hard to stay healthy by eating well and cycling and walking as often as possible. It...
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Thankful
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Kathy S.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer
I and some other "international types" spoke the fourth grade about elementary schools in other countries on January 29th and I was glad to answer questions from L's classma ...
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Traditions
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Kathy S.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer
With school and other busy things happening on the 24th and 25th, it didn't feel much like Christmas. Santa knew that I had an early hospital appointment on Christmas Day so ...
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Gamma Completed
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Kathy S.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer
The iffy area in the cavity in my brain from last April's surgical resection turned out to be tumor action so I spent 92 more minutes on the Leksell Gamma Knife table at the T ...
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Detours
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Kathy S.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer
I managed to keep my schedule for my October MRI and ten days of radiation to nip the pain producing cancer in my pelvis, making good use on my time between finishing my last ...
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A few belated photos
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Kathy S.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer
The kids agreed that Niagara Falls was a major highlight of our trip.
Of course anything involving jumping came in at a close second. Fortunately they didn't want to t ...
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Learning to Touch Type
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Kathy S.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer
People of my age are likely to have had typing classes in high school but I found that even when had a job with a typewriter (remember those?) I tended to look at the keyboard ...
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Back to School
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Kathy S.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer
All the schools are concerned about H1N1 flu and we've been asked to take each child's temperature every morning for a couple of weeks and go see a doctor for every sniffle, s ...
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Too Busy To Post
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Kathy S.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer
Well, my kids are just having an awesome time traveling all over New York State and seeing rainbows here and there. I managed to connect with a few classmates at the local ...
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A Cycle of Sorts
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Kathy S.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer
Monday I'd been looking forward to a visit by a former student Ikue, a very pleasant young woman whom the children adore. I cleaned up the place a little bit (never seems to ...
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Summer Vacation - Almost
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Kathy S.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer
J's last day of school was Wednesday but her after school club, the wind orchestra, is so active that they'll be practicing every day all summer so she gets up and heads off t ...
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Quick Update
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Kathy S.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer
There's so much I want to write but with the family home for some holidays, I expect we'll be a little busy doing fun stuff in this fabulous spring weather.
I am home and ...
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