So Far, So Good – Post-Op Report
What recovery looks like, five days after a laparoscopic colectomy.
Food/Nutrition
Weekend Excerpts
SATURDAY: My mother-in-law, in town for the weekend, holds my arm as we stand at the L-shaped buffet at her friend’s new Thai noodle shop. She wears jeans, a floppy tee-shirt and tinted glasses with white rims studded with Swarovski crystals. Her friend, on the other side of the sneeze-guarded trays of food, has on … Read more
Super Ninja Neck Snap
I see my chiropractor on Mondays. He bounces his fingers along my spine, lightly, barely pausing as he presses the offending vertebrae, muttering, “L4, T12 C7, C4, C3, C2,” He stands behind me, cradles the crown of my head in one hand, my jaw in the other and twists. The CRACK resounds, and leaves me … Read more
Chemo–What we expect versus what we get…
Was browsing this blog that I really like, and saw this report; Most falsely believe chemo is curative According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine although chemotherapy is the primary treatment for patients with lung and colorectal cancer, it is not curative. In an American national survey of 1193 advanced-stage patients, … Read more
Flailing
As this is a record of sorts, of my creative progress, it bears mentioning that I have been flailing lately in my creative life, and well, just my life. I haven’t posted much about it, not because it’s an emotional topic (though it is) so much as it is one that is difficult to capture … Read more
Chris Beat Cancer with Nutrition
There’s a blog I’ve been following intermittently for a while, called Chris Beat Cancer. I don’t know Chris and he doesn’t know me, but from reading his blog I can determine we are kind of “cancer twins.” We were both diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer in 2003 (both at a rather young age). We … Read more
August 25, 2012
August 25, 2012 Things I am already doing to help my case: Meditating again… I once had a practice. I had a tendency to act like I still had a practice, but I didn’t. I do now. Twenty-five to thirty minutes in the morning and the evening, ten or fifteen minutes mid-day at work, and … Read more
My Husband’s Diet is Making Me Hungry
My husband is doing the Master Cleanse and it’s making me hungry. For those of you who don’t know Paul, his philosophy might be summed up as something like “Life is the stuff you do to pass the time between meals.” He likes to eat meals, preferably at a restaurant. He likes to plan where … Read more
If We Are What We Eat, I Will Be a Zuccini
Another project I have going at the moment, since I am having a “normal life” with a job and such, is ordering a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) box every couple of weeks. Each week the South Central Farmers–an organic cooperative–delivers pre-ordered boxes to different places in the city. One of the drop-off points is here … Read more