Tag: chemo

  • Powered by Jet Fuel and Spite

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    Powered by Jet Fuel and Spite 🌼 Date: Sunday, December 28, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Steroid-powered, mildly feral, unstoppable ❤️‍🩹 Status: Productive, bald, wig-curious, still breathing 💖 Outlook: Getting shit done now, fully expecting to crash later Today was Day 1 of steroids, which means my internal operating system rebooted without asking me and said, “We’re…

  • Not Walking This Alone

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    Not Walking This Alone 🌼 Date: Saturday, December 27, 2025 ⚡ Energy: 🔋 (officially depleted—in the best way) 💝 Status: Surrounded, supported, and freshly clipped 🥰 Outlook: Full heart, steady hope, ready for Monday Today was a very successful day—the kind that leaves you completely spent and deeply grateful. ✔ Labs done✔ Head shaving +…

  • Wig First

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    Wig First 🌼 Date: Friday, December 26, 2025 ⚡ Energy: 🔋🔋 (used wisely, with laughter breaks) 💞Status: Wigged, prepared, medically efficient 😏Outlook: Spicy, realistic, and seeing the damn light Today we made it to the wig shop—and let me tell you, it was an adventure. Aunt Dee and Marnie came with us, which immediately guaranteed…

  • Chemo Hooch and Other Christmas Wins

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    Chemo Hooch and Other Christmas Wins 🌼 Date: Thursday, December 25, 2025 ⚡ Energy: 🔋🔋🔋 (steady, managed, and fueled by apple spice) 💖 Status: Medicated, hydrated, hosting like a boss 😁 Outlook: Grateful, amused, and ready to recycle all the boxes Today brought a small but mighty breakthrough in the nausea department—and honestly, I feel…

  • Absolutely Counts

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    Absolutely Counts 🌼 Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2025 ⚡ Energy: 🔋🔋🔋 (surprisingly decent) 💔 Status: Balding with dignity, functioning, mildly festive 🌞 Outlook: Cautiously optimistic, armed with clippers and sass Today? Today was a pretty damn good day. First things first: nausea barely showed up. 🎉Like… barely RSVP’d. I’ll take that win and put it…

  • Today Was a Good Day

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    Today Was a Good Day 🌼 Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Better than expected 💔 Status: Alive (medicated, baking) 🌞 Outlook: Cautiously optimistic, clippers nearby Today was a good day. And I don’t say that lightly. I think — I hope — we finally found the right combination of meds to shut the…

  • I Got Dressed

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    I Got Dressed 🌼 Date: Monday, December 22, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Low, but showing up 💔 Status: Alive (bare nails, real clothes) 🌞 Outlook: Holding steady, with receipts Today, I got dressed. Not “clean pajamas” dressed.Not “leggings and a hoodie, let’s survive” dressed. I put on real clothes.I did my makeup.I looked in the mirror…

  • In Sickness and In Health (Turns Out It Wasn’t Theoretical)

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    In Sickness and In Health (Turns Out It Wasn’t Theoretical) 🌼 Date: Sunday, December 21, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Low but sentimental 💔 Status: Alive (and still married) 🌞 Outlook: Grateful with a side of awe Today is a big one. Casey and I have been married for 34 years.Thirty. Four. We met in high school…

  • Fur Babies, and My Mary

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    Fur Babies, and My Mary 🌼 Date: Saturday, December 20, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Low → improving 💔 Status: Alive 🙂 Outlook: Holding steady (with a side of gratitude) Today feels different — in a good way. The nausea finally backed off enough that I could eat and keep food down. I actually managed about three…

  • Feelingless Boobs (and Other Things No One Prepares You For)

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    Feelingless Boobs (and Other Things No One Prepares You For) 🌼 Date: Friday, December 19, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Low 💔 Status: Alive – I think 😒 Outlook: Holding steady, but we keep going Some days, the phrase “we keep going” sounds motivational.Other days, it’s just a fact. Today was a fact kind of day. The…