Uveitis: delay of treatment, 1 week penalty

December 5, 2012

Today was supposed to be my 3rd IPI treatment – blood work, dr visit and infusion – and I even had Mike with me today! Yesterday I had my second flare up of uveitis in my left eye. Dr. K put me on the super strong steroid drops again and it’s already doing better, but […]

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Tired

December 1, 2012

I’m tired. I can’t seem to pull myself out of this funk and I feel crummy. (I feel like George Bailey when he learns he has to stay working at the bank when his brother gets married) I have the usual laundry list of ailments; at the top is fatigue. Not just tired, but deep […]

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Insomnia!

November 21, 2012

First, I posted over at defying melanoma if you’d like an update on that stuff. Second: I can’t sleep. At 5pm on the couch? Totally! At 3:30am, apparently not so much. I’ve moved to the couch, tried every mind clearing, relaxation technique that usually works and have listened to the cello suites by Yo-Yo Ma. […]

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Short but sweet

November 16, 2012

My awesome cousin, Michelle came to visit me last weekend and brought her sweet baby Michael with her. It was a short visit, but greatly appreciated and much needed. It’s been so long since I had held a baby  and he was so cuddly and sweet! I was so sorry to see them go, but […]

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Acclimating

November 2, 2012

As humans, we tend to acclimate to things we never guess we would. Things like tragedy, grief, disease all become things that we almost take for granted in our every day lives.  While things are so very personal to us, others tend to move on far before we do when something affects us directly. I […]

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