Archives
2016
- — Obituary
- — Memorial Service to celebrate Ellen's life
- — Time to fly
- — Candles flickering
- — Guest post: Dropping in
- — Caregiver Tools
- — The Gifts of the Death Midwife
- — Packing up
- — Maudlin?
- — Ellen Time
- — Generosity in the Quiet
- — Quiet Days
- — Fifty Years Plus
- — Shifts and Changes
- — Challenges
- — Back to the grind
- — "hanging in"
- — Weekend excitements
- — Guest post: Spee’s update
- — The view from Montréal
- — Guest post: Jesse's perspective
- — Brief clinical updates
- — One small downside to all these helpful visitors...
- — What's been slowing me down
- — Life keeps trickling by... and a bit on my midwifery doings
- — Lemon drop
- — Cancer Problem-Cause quiz
- — Mobility
- — My neighbor Bella goes bald!
- — End of today
- — Body by Steroids
- — Asking and asking and asking for help large and small
- — Reality check
- — Frustrations abound
- — Last week's round of imaging to see what's what
- — Brief update
- — Ups and downs
- — Vanities: smarts
- — IT Methotrexate is working!
- — My report card
- — The evolving bucket list
- — Weekend update
- — Post-chemo report
- — "Quick" chemo today
- — Death Straight Talk (by Eric)
- — Chemo-day update
- — Hair fun
- — Shaker Lemon Pie story, plus.
- — Prevailing mood post-surgery on double-chemo day #1
- — After all, it's not brain surg--oh, yeah it was!
- — Still in the hospital, but otherwise great
- — Another evening update from the hospital
- — Quick evening update--good news
- — Even later and less greater happenings
- — Latest not-at-all greatest developments
- — Palliative care
- — I didn't sign up for this.
- — Finally made a T-shirt expressing my philosophy!
- — Sign up for blog-post alerts by e-mail
- — Phase Two: Definitely the "one damn thing after another" zone now
2015
- — Best bald-head covering advice I've encountered
- — Start of Phase Two
- — Improving the blog!
- — Vanities: usefulness
- — "Chemo holiday"?
- — Vanities: function
- — Vanities: appearance
- — Two years?
- — Welcome to lymphedema!
- — Quick update
- — My very first cancer hospital admission!
- — Goings-on at the start of chemo cycle 29
- — Trials (and tribulations)
- — Day 7 of PE
- — And the next complication is...
- — England trip: Beyond London, September 24-27 (part 2)
- — Bits of news; still in limbo
- — England trip: London, September 21-23 (part 1)
- — Lung Spot Limbo
- — Cancer scan interv-hell!
- — Cancer-Lifestyle Barbie: Who knew this would involve so many accessories?
- — Doing a bit better
- — Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
- — A hard few weeks
- — "Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table"
- — MRI results!
- — About France...
- — France trip: Aix-en-Provence, July 1-13, 2015 (part 2)
- — France trip: Aix-en-Provence, July 1-13, 2015 (part 1)
- — Back from Aix-en-Provence: best "chemo break" ever! But more on that later.
- — Off. To. France.
- — A brief and good update
- — Five pillows
- — One ongoing challenge of living with cancer
- — Resting up
- — SRS mask pictures for anyone who's curious!
- — Back in the saddle
- — Zaps 1 2 3
- — I want one of these!
- — Chemo today in record time!
- — Back on track / curb cuts
- — Twitterizing
- — About the blog
- — Liver enzymes GRRRRRRR
- — My smoothie recipe!
- — Zap all done...at least this one
- — Calming down, looking up
- — New alphabetic possibilities
- — Me vs. morphine
- — The Florida Keys: Nice place for a blood clot, but I wouldn't want to live there
- — Various detours into uncertainty and apparent absurdity
- — A beautiful picture of the future
- — Cancer terminology
- — Woo hoo, insurance woes less!
- — Brain zapping went well
- — Off to zap on January 15th again
- — Quotations
- — My chemo-versary
- — ...but results had to wait until January 6
2014
- — MRI is on December 29...
- — December rushes along
- — The zap plan so far
- — MRIs
- — Update with and without varnish
- — Trying to make sense of lab results (or, what I do for fun)
- — I have lost track of what round of chemo this is!
- — Pictures are more fun than politics (more in the weird hair series)
- — Improving end-of-life care with some good questions
- — One last suggestion for National Breast Cancer Industry Month
- — October is upon us. Think before you pink.
- — Do tortilla chips count as whole grains?
- — Accumulated observations: creativity
- — Another EXCITING lunch picture!
- — August, September
- — Good scans
- — Latest cancer book: Radical Remission
- — Midsummer update
- — Things go on, with reminders that there is no certainty...
- — Nothin' but an updated picture
- — Late-May update
- — Rx x X where X = cancer patient
- — International Day of the Midwife
- — Good week, and new "hairs"style
- — Thanks, health insurance!
- — "If I were a mouse, I'd be cured by now!"
- — IV Vitamin C
- — Some, less, and more
- — A quick fact-filled update
- — Anticancer
- — Thought for the day (post-chemo, round 3, dose 2)
- — Chemo round 3, dose 1: fine so far
- — New Orleans
- — "When will you be done with chemo?"
- — Chemo round 2, dose 2: thankfully easy
- — My favorite chemo(-hair) hat
- — narcissistic hair post...
- — Attitude
- — Chemo round 2 starts tomorrow AM
- — Chronomodulated chemotherapy
- — Grand Canyon--wow!
- — Chemo (round 1, week 2)
- — The e-mail update no one wants to send or receive (from 12/13)
- — what a nice weekend
- — Zapped!
- — zapping day!
- — post-chemo Buddhist reminder
- — Chemo starts tomorrow (Friday)
- — Eribulin (Halaven)
- — what's going on this week: waiting
- — Sharsheret
2013
- — Best practices in cancer treatment, 2012 & 2013
- — Untitled
- — cancer irony
- — "Plan? PLAN???!??!?!???? Mwaahhhhahhhhahhhhahhhhh" --cancer
- — PARP inhibitors
- — the plan so far
- — persephone
- — 2013 & ONWARD
- — 2006-2007 UPDATES
2007
- — deported
- — a small announcement
- — an interesting take
- — it's all about hair, isn't it?
- — I admit it...
2006
- — my hair is starting to grow...
- — Zzzzap! (repeat 33 times)
- — catching up
- — fourth chemo (out of four)
- — hiding and covering
- — balancing
- — henna again
- — which kind of day?
- — getting through it
- — 3rd chemo
- — life goes on and dysfunction does too
- — my head
- — off to the MANA conference
- — Neulasta: $6000 or $75, you pick
- — so how did the chemo go this time?
- — day 25: Ellen Hair-was-brown
- — Ellen update 10/3/06
- — end of week three
- — Chemicals Helpfully Eliminating Microscopic Oncologies
- — day 17
- — beyond allopathic
- — genetic testing, part 1
- — no news is good news
- — what's the buzz
- — Neulasta
- — saturday through wednesday (more than you wanted to know)
- — end of another day
- — end of day 3
- — Ellen update 09/11/06
- — me
- — chemo thoughts
- — chemo #1
- — murmurs?
- — fashion statement
- — $745.25
- — impending chemicals
- — the stuff I want to be doing
- — whatever happened to that minute group of cells?
- — busy friday indeed
- — more on taxanes
- — waiting on a baby in the midst of all of this
- — no walk-ins
- — down the rabbit hole again
- — bibliotherapy: well
- — bibliotherapy: sick
- — what I dare to think I'll be doing this fall...
- — possible chemo regimen
- — Ellen update 08/27/06
- — Ellen update 08/18/06
- — Ellen update 07/30/06 (aka Way Too Much Information)
- — the 5th floor
- — telling people is the worst
- — timeline (july-august 2006)
- — what am I doing here? (said Persephone)
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