Calendar Gymnastics and 2024 Do Over

Not to brag but I think I set a record for the most visits to different hospitals and doctors offices for different people and different reasons in a ten day period. This blog isn’t about me but I have to share this because it’s so unbelievable I kind of laughing. I have to find humor…

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Bloody Hell, Puke & Lost Keys

I don’t even know where to start with this post. I thought yesterday was a marathon and a candidate for worst day of 2024 and then I was introduced to today. Baton tossed, new winner awarded. After spending the morning at the cancer center and the second half of the afternoon and evening at Munster…

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100th Post and 100 Reasons Cancer SUCKS

We received some terrible news today. The truth is the official news came Monday via MyChart and despite my best efforts to resist Googling and hiding them from my mom she found them. Been a weird few days knowing what we read and trying to pretend all is ok. The results of Mom’s biopsy hit…

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Additional Confirmation from University of Chicago

Dr. Kurnit called us this evening and reiterated what we heard earlier from Dr. Sidani. She has been in communication with him and they are in agreement that chemotherapy should be started again immediately. She also gave more clarity on why surgery is not recommended at this time. This is an aggressive cancer and while…

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Lymph Node Biopsy – Results Pending

Just flew back from NYC after a hellish 48 hours of travel last night. I needed to get home, get some sleep and pick up my mom by 630am to get her to the hospital by 645am this morning for her biopsy procedure.  She had been fasting since the night before and really wanted some…

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Biopsy NEXT Thursday, June 29th

Despite an all out effort to secure an earlier appointment with Interventional Radiology we must wait until next week. Thursday 29th is the set date of Mom’s biopsy. I called all hospitals in the Community healthcare system that could perform this procedure – St Mary’s, St Catherine’s, Community in Munster. I checked with University of…

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An Update for Theresa

I would have liked to have waited longer than three months to write in this journal again. The last 90 days have been nothing but optimistic and positive and my mom hasn’t looked or felt better since her cancer diagnosis in September.  The last time we were here was almost exactly three months ago and…

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The Right Direction

I have been waiting for definitive results on my moms CT and PET Scan before posting any more updates. I wish we could say we are completely in the clear and dancing with NED (No evidence of disease) but honestly we aren’t quite there yet despite my dreams of cancer being behind us. Here is…

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CA-125 Results and 34 Infusions!

Today we received the AMAZING news that my moms CA-125 result was THIRTEEN!!!!  A normal range of this cancer marker is 0-35! Can’t be more perfect than this!  Just to give a baseline, her reading in September was off the charts and over 1200. What a miracle!!!! I manage all of the doctors appointments for…

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Friend Love: Angela Mason

Angela and Leslie with me at a charity event for Legacy Foundation Even when I’m crying and sad you bring me joy. I am so blessed to have the most amazing next door neighbor who is now a best friend and working on Team Float Sixty!! Daily checkins and pop overs and taking care of…

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