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.
So, I did go home for Christmas, and spent a wonderful couple of days with my parents and siblings. I love Christmas in my parents’ home — lush poinsettias, a lovely Douglas Fir with decorations made or collected over the years, A Ceremony of Carols and other classIc Christmas music, my brother playing banjo, my…
(What a great title for the holiday season!) My husband and I have recently become kind of obsessed with a British show called This Farming Life. It’s a documentary style hour-long show that each season follows 5 or 6 farming families in Scotland. Most of them farm sheep and cattle for meat. Each season it…
I had to go in early this morning for bloodwork before chemo. There’s always something. This time my creatinine levels are too high (though this just in — they are fine now. Phew). Before we left I told my husband I thought that today we should just pretend I don’t have cancer, skip the appointment,…
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