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A couple of months back we had a referral for genetic testing and I have been slacking off on that a bit. I am going to go get my blood work done soon for it though. I do not expect them to find much as the population I will be compared to is North America…
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I have not written an update for a while now. Primarily because the space bar on my laptop is not really working well and I have been too lazy to fix it or use my other laptops. I can not remember the date of my last update or what I wrote since then. The news…
Last year at this time we were explaining to the kids what the PICC line was and how I would have a tube coming out of my arm for a couple of months. Originally they were going to leave it in there for the whole time. This would have meant it was in my arm…
A couple of nights ago I decided to listen to my playlist that I created last year when I was in the hospital. It is remarkable how memories of being in the hospital flood back. I played the same playlist when I was in the hospital after my brain surgery as well. When I play…
Melanie remembers dates of events. I tend to not remember all of them. I know roughly when some things occurred but not the exact dates. One year ago on January 29th, I received the phone call from my doctor telling me that I had cancer. I think I had written about it in some update…
It has been interesting some of the small issues that we have had over the last couple of weeks. Small electrical things here and there, the garage door not always closing or opening. Today Mel had to bring the van to get check the tires. We have barely driven the truck and it did not…
When we first bought our house, our neighbours all thought that we had installed a heated driveway. I had a standard that I maintained. Before I went to work I would shovel. That would mean that on some really heavy snow fall days I would set an alarm to get up at 5am or even 4:30am…
I have now gone half a year cancer free and have an appointment with one of my doctors on Tuesday. It is an appointment that I do not expect too much drama as my latest scans for things have been discussed with some other doctors. The last time that I spoke with this doctor he…
Cancer patients are told that they need to advocate for themselves. If you do not then you may potentially get lost in the system. Previously there were system navigators to help patients navigate the system. When you are going through this, it is not always clear what you are suppose to do at each step,…
When I first found out about the cancer and was told that I could expect to be off of work for 6 to 9 months it seemed like such a long time. One of my friends told me that the time would fly by and before you knew it, the time would pass. It did…