Medical Update - The Long View

I am apparently not a prolific blogger as it has been several days since my last update. I attribute this to my being busy resting, visiting with friends and a general lack of follow through. In addition, although writing a blog is not a huge technological undertaking, I have already accidentally erased several entries prior to posting them. I'm bound to improve.

Here is an update on the treatment I have been told I will be having after I recover from my surgery.

Chemotherapy: I will have 4 chemotherapy treatments, each 3 weeks apart. This will take 12 weeks (3 months). This will be followed by 12 additional chemotherapy treatments, once a week for 3 months, for a total of 6 months of chemotherapy. If I were a Math Major I probably could have explained that better, like a story problem. I am told that the weekly chemotherapy is usually easier to tolerate and can be fairly compatible with normal life. I hope they are right.

Radiation Therapy: Happily, at this moment, I don't expect to have any.

You can see it will not be business as usual for me anytime soon. However, I will have plenty of time to post every ridiculous idea I have ever had on this Blog.

I do want to point out that this is not a Blog about Cancer. I have learned almost nothing about the subject since my diagnosis. I have conducted not one web search about Breast Cancer and not read any books on the subject. I don't expect to become an expert. All those activities are time consuming and time is the one thing I resent giving to Cancer, the one thing I won't get back.

You can be confident I am working my way through treatment, having good days and bad, following the arc of my treatment plan and my Dr's instructions. For the studious ones, I will try to post the link to the JAMA article with details about about my specific chemotherapy protocol. To be clear, it is not an article about me, but rather the article on which my treatment is based, DOH!

In the meantime, you will know where to find me, on my beautiful couch.