The Cancer Grrrl

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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Chemosaurus

Legend has it that chemosaurus was once a human female named abigail, living in the early 21st century. She got cancer, which was, in those days, a serious disease, mandating agressive "chemotherapy," a 4 month long regimen of toxic drugs, taken intravenously.

At first, the regimen went as planned. However, as time went on those close to abigail started to notice that she was becoming even scalier and meaner than usual, until finally......CHEMOSAURUS!!!

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Ahhh chemo brain kicking in. I feel sorta crappy right now (lightheaded, nauseous, tired), but I'm thinking the worse you feel the more sensitive you are to it, and thus, the more it kicks the cancer's ass. Highly unscientific reasoning, i am sure, but, whatever.

I'll post more about the actual experience later. We went shopping after, and got lots of really good food, b/c I have to start eating healthy. I got some cool recipes from HERE, and made the sicilian tuna basil pizza this evening. very very worthwhile, even if i do feel like vomiting the whole thing up right about now...

a bientot

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3 Comments:

  • At 12:20 PM, Blogger bmacpiper said…

    Hey Abigail,
    Just another one of those random people out there, wishing you all the best as you start the joys of chemo (found you from TigerOx). Love your blog, and hope you keep the great sense of humor through it all.

    Take good care,
    bmc :)

     
  • At 6:04 PM, Blogger abigail said…

    Hey bmacpiper,

    Thanks for the good wishes. I gather you are into bagpipes? you might want to check out Fred's new blog (on my sidebar), he's a bagpiper from Canada (been doing it since he was 4)

    Anyway, I just got back from first chemo...no horrible side effects so far, but we'll see...

    thanks again for reading!
    Lor(abigail)

     
  • At 5:28 AM, Blogger Marjory said…

    Hi

    Thinking about you. You sound just like me - fab for the first six hours and then wham .... reality bites.

    OHHHH ... Pass the sick bag Mabel...

    Lots of love
    Marjory

     

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