Tag: still standing
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Chemo Hooch and Other Christmas Wins
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…
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Absolutely Counts
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…
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Today Was a Good Day
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…
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I Got Dressed
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…
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In Sickness and In Health (Turns Out It Wasn’t Theoretical)
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…
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Reporting Live from Chemo Station 19
Reporting Live from Chemo Station 19 🌼 Date: Tuesday, December 09, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Wired, overwhelmed, and weirdly alert 💔 Status: Alive and officially infused 🌞 Outlook: Buckled in — let’s do this Chemo Day: The Great Storm This morning, we left the house with plenty of time for the 45-minute drive. But Mother Nature…
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Bring It, Cancer. (Chemo Round 1, Pending Approval)
Bring It, Cancer. (Chemo Round 1, Pending Approval) 🌼 Date: Monday, December 8, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Low and anxious 💔 Status: Alive, negotiating with my body 🌞 Outlook: Determined, but braced Round 1: Bring It, Cancer The Bad News: My Last 3 Weeks of Plastics (And yes, we call it Plastics now — because Mean…
