Cancer Free Since ’03
For those that don’t follow me on Twitter, you’ll have missed the whole “Shaun had a cancer appointment today” stuff. As it turns out, I remain cancer free, and have done so since the conclusion of chemo in 2003. And that’s good news indeed. So hurray to me. Good news for the holidays and all […]
Adventures in …Cancer?: If Only You’d Been Bad Asthma (Or, Leading to Up to Diagnosis — Part Two)
(You can find the first part here.) Where were we? Oh, right. The last time I talked about my cancer diagnosis, I had covered all the symptoms leading up to my hospitalization and getting over my fear of needles. A fast heart rate, asthma symptoms, and some weird crap in my x-rays pretty much made […]
Adventures in …Cancer?: If Only You’d Been Bad Asthma (Or, Leading to Up to Diagnosis — Part One)
(You can read my earlier post about the ten year anniversary of my first chemo treatment here.) Thanksgiving. It’s that time of year when we all hang out with family, eat lots of food, and avoid contracting deadly diseases. It’s a time of thanks, too, though nature has this odd tendency to understand “thanks” to […]
10 Years Ago Today: Chemo
There are a lot of things I don’t remember about finding out I had cancer in 2002. But I do remember the day I began treatments: today. That’s right. Two days before Christmas, I had my first round of ABVD (adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine — a.k.a. four ways to poison yourself in order to […]