Category: integrative health
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The C Word – Part 6
About seven days after my first Chemo appointment, my initial side effects had finally subsided. The nausea subsided first and my appetite came back, thank goodness. The cold sensitivity in my throat was finally gone, but the sensitivity in my fingertips only decreased. Now when I touch cold things, my fingers feel like they do…
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The C Word – Part 5
First week on the Chemo diet plan! Just kidding. Tuesday July 27th was my first chemo appointment. It was at the BC Cancer centre’s location at Surrey Memorial Hospital. 1:00 pm. Doug drove me there and picked me up afterwards. Still no guests allowed due to CoVid protocols. I checked in and waited for the…
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The C Word – Part 4
So, I was released from the hospital smack into the biggest heatwave BC had ever seen. Perfect. I’d heard it was coming while I was in the hospital so I’d tracked down a small air conditioning unit at a nearby Best Buy and had Doug pick it up when he came to get me. He…
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The C Word – Part 3
I got through the molten bum phase and was getting back to at least eating a liquid diet, then the gas pain and the nausea set in. And I don’t mean queasiness, I mean my stomach just started violently rejecting everything. I was producing so much bile and it wasn’t going anywhere. There was an…
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The C Word – Part 2
I’d only every had one surgery in my life; a laparoscopic day surgery to remove dermoid cysts from my ovaries. Have you ever heard of dermoid cysts? Allow me to enlighten you: they’re not normal ovarian cysts which are generally filled with clear fluid. Dermoids are filled with what they describe as “a thick chocolate-brown…
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The C Word – Part 1
They say that childbirth is one of the most painful experiences a woman can go through. But afterwards, you forget the pain because they bring you your beautiful baby and love overrides the memory of the pain. But I didn’t have a baby. I had a tumor. And quite frankly, that thing was a real…
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