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Notes from the Infusion Chair -- March 14, 2020

March 18, 2020

Saturday, March 14 Today marks my 78th cancer treatment. In a few weeks I will mark my fifth anniversary of my first cancer treatment. It's still very weird. Here's what's been rolling around in my mind for the past week or two. What a week it's been! If you haven't heard yet, I've become the JV Softball coach for the high school that I work at. I know! I can't believe it either! So this past week I've stayed after work for practice, getting home around 5:30pm. It makes for a long day, but it's so much fun! In addition to that, I've stared selling hair accessories through Lilla Rose. Lilla Rose is a direct sales company, but there's no need for party hosting. If you're interested, you can order directly from my website and have it shipped directly to your house. Here's the link to my website: LillaRose.biz/TammyPayne . For updates, specials, etc., like my business facebook page: Fa

Introduction

As I start this blog in the last week of 2015, I am 50 years old. I am married and have two sons, ages 18 and 14. I was diagnosed on March 5, 2015, with breast cancer. Since then, I have kept a caringbridge page (link below). I initially created the caringbridge page to have a place to give medical updates to those who wanted them. I've decided to start a blog as an extension of that caringbridge page, because there is so much more I want to say! I will take some of those same entries and build on them here (so if you've been following me on caringbridge, some of these entries may seem familiar). I will post random thoughts (they seem to always happen in the middle of the night!). I will post funny things, and I will post serious things. Hopefully, I will post interesting things. :)

I hope that with this blog, my writing about my experiences will do a few things:

-- For you who are have cancer; it may help to know that you are not alone in what you're going through. It's hard. No two people's experiences are exactly the same. I hope that you will find something here that will be comforting, and/or answer a question or two you may have. At the very least, know that you are not alone.

-- For people with loved ones who have cancer; it may help you to understand, at least a little bit, of what your loved one is feeling, emotionally and physically.

Feedback is welcome. If there is a topic you would like addressed, please let me know. If you think I'm wrong about something, please let me know. Constructive criticism is welcome; nasty comments are not. This is my first ever attempt at writing a blog; there is so much I don't know about it -- any tips are welcome.

Disclaimer: All views and opinions in this blog are mine. I do not purport to give medical advice. This blog is simply a journal of my experiences with my cancer, my thoughts and opinions, nothing else.