my first blog, a way for me to process my experience of being diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma
I am a professor at a Canadian university. I’m married, have close relationships with my family, love my 2 dogs, love travel, and enjoy hiking (but day hikes only – not really into the hut-to-hut thing). I really hope I can get through this and do some major hikes again in the future. Thank god I also love reading novels (literary prize winners, but also espionage, detective, and sometimes Sci-fi). And thank god I live in an era of excellent tv. And thank god I love writing. There are many things I can still do that I love, even having cancer and being more home-bound than I would like to be.
If you’re new, I recommend starting with How I Found Out.
In January, when I had finished combined chemo-immunotherapy and just started immunotherapy (durvalumab) alone, I woke up with a cluster of small, red, itchy bumps below my right elbow. Once or twice before I’ve gotten spider bites while sleeping, and so that was my go-to diagnosis, especially because it was on my arm, which is…
I’m a pretty private and introverted person. If you don’t know me, this might surprise you, since here I am blogging to the world about things like having diarrhea while on a walk or wishing I could get rid of my cancer by giving it to someone I don’t like. But, not a lot of…
Wicked Thoughts: On the way home from the 3rd Zeno infusion yesterday, I tested myself. If given the choice, are there still people in the world that I would give my cancer to if some little demon made the offer? Yup, totally. People I know? Yup, sorry to say, but totally. This made me and…
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