Did you understand that last post from Beth? Yeah, I thought so – neither did I.
Beth’s quarterly check-up went very well – everything seems to be in order. She’ll see Dr Everett again in January.
Archive for the ‘Cheering’ Category
Huh?
October 28, 2007A Big Decision Has Been Made
August 23, 2007Recently, Scott and I have been labouring over a major decision. This decision has really coloured our perception of life as we know it. It really has been the centre of attention. My health issues were a factor, as well as the position Scott would be taking. Quid offered versus benefits have been weighed. Organisation will be a key element. The adventure-value was just as important to this decision. Aw, bloody hell. I’ll get right to it…we are moving to…
WTF
August 14, 2007One of the great things about the free hosted WordPress application is that one can see incoming search terms. YouTumor gets a fair bit of traffic from people seemingly stalking our friends (really) and people looking for information on “face cancer” and”knee cancer”. “Pizza face” is also huge.
For the poor soul who is stricken with knee and face cancer while simultaneously battling acne…our friend really doesn’t want to go on a date with you.
LOLBeth
August 4, 2007Beth continues her comeback from cancer treatment. This week she is playing in the Washington State Open tennis tournament at the posh Seattle Tennis Club. Today Beth and Laura are playing in the Women’s Doubles semi-final against Lisa Moldrem, a pro from our club.
About the text: The spelling and grammatical trainwreck shown above is “lolcat” style borrowed from improbable Web-sensation “I Can Has Cheezburger?“. This site with its trademark misspellings was recently featured in the NYTimes, Seattle P-I, Time Magazine, and in Beth’s web browser history list. Really. Don’t ask…it doesn’t really make sense.
Press Embargo Lifted!
June 26, 2007
Rumors have been circulating on the Web about Beth’s status: She’s a man, baby (not true, but she does throw like one), this cancer thing was cover for a boob job (not true), the chemotherapy caused her to lose her hair (not true, it has always been like that) and Beth has completed treatment for Stage 1b cervical cancer…DOUBLE TRUE.
Beth wrapped up her chemo-radiation regimen last week without a hitch. The last six months brought us three surgeries, six weeks of chemotherapy, five weeks of pelvic radiation treatments, five frozen embryos, and a 6″ thick file of medical bills, EoBs, and other paper artifacts. All things considered, this went much better than we expected. Beth managed to stay active the whole time and avoided most of the short-term side effects. In fact, Beth was more active while receiving chemoradiation than many (most?) unencumbered people I know. Seriously, who uses a week of radiation treatments and one chemotherapy session as a warm up for an afternoon of tennis?
So what’s next? She starts the surveillance program in which she’ll see her oncologist every three months for the 1st two years, and then with decreasing frequency through 2012.
