Hey, when you're done chasing your daughter around with a port'o'potty, can you please give a quick tutorial on the new "Choose an Identity" thing? What option do I have to use to make it say, "Dirk Diggler says. . . ." [-Cappy]
Sadly, I won't be able to make Brigitapalooza, but that's probably to be expected - I never made it to your parties when they were a half hour from me.
Capozzola For One--Click the radio button that says NAme/URL and enter your info.
Pat--No worries...We really weren't expecting anyone beyond a 2h radius to come (especially since it's Easter and all, oops!), so the fact that we've got Beantown and Seatown folks making the trip is beyond flattering.
When my husband was in the military and would go on his six month deployments, people would be all "Oh, you're so strong, I don't know how you do it, blahblah compassionate noisescakes." The thing is, there is no choice. You put your head down and grind it out and one day you wake up and your life is back to normal.
In December 2007, they found a mass in my rectum. This is My Cancer Deployment.
33yo, primiparous, non-smoking, hypothyroid (dx 12.07), 8+ year pescatarian 1st diagnosed with rectal cancer via colonoscopy on 11.30.07. Despite very low CEA levels (1.0), dx confirmed 12.04.07 via biopsy. Tumor determined to be stage IIIb (T3/N1), 6-7cm from anal verge on 12.11.07 via world's most unpleasant ultrasound.
33 tx of chemorads (3,000mg Xeloda/d), pathology following LAR found no signs of adenoma or carcinoma AND none of the 11 nodes taken out were positive. FUCK YEAH.
Most recently, completed last of 8 treatments of FOLFOX on 8.16.08 and had ostomy reversal 9.5.08.
- 11/30: colonoscopy - 12/21: laproscopic ovary transposition - 12/26: 6 weeks/33 treatments of chemoradiation (last day 2/8) - 3/13: pre-op work-up and CTVP - 3/25: TRUS - 3/28: surgery (LAR) - 4/10: post-op appointment - 4/11: CT scan - 4/14: drain placement - 4/24: port placement - 4/24: 4+ months/8 chemo treatments: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 - 9/4: CT scan, appts with both onc and surgeon - 9/5: ostomy takedown - commence bowel retraining - port gets taken out at some point...
Once goal of normal pooping is achieved (which may be further in the distance than any of us might think), join us in Iceland or Bermuda somewhere totally kewl for my FUCK CANCER Party
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Hey, when you're done chasing your daughter around with a port'o'potty, can you please give a quick tutorial on the new "Choose an Identity" thing? What option do I have to use to make it say, "Dirk Diggler says. . . ." [-Cappy]
You do it like this, Cappy
Sadly, I won't be able to make Brigitapalooza, but that's probably to be expected - I never made it to your parties when they were a half hour from me.
-Pat McD
Capozzola For One--Click the radio button that says NAme/URL and enter your info.
Pat--No worries...We really weren't expecting anyone beyond a 2h radius to come (especially since it's Easter and all, oops!), so the fact that we've got Beantown and Seatown folks making the trip is beyond flattering.
That was easier than I thought it would be.
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