Not Today, Cancer

"Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you...

A few weeks ago, Paul wiped out on our front walkway. We had just gotten home after spending 8+ hours in the hospital. I was holding Ingri...

The other day, my radiation nurse asked how Paul was doing with treatment. “Oh, he’s ok. I mean. Well. Actually. No.” I paused, unsure h...

sidenote: I originally wrote this piece a couple of months back, while recovering from my first mastectomy . Then I got crummy news  about m...

This space could use a jolt of happy, wouldn’t you agree? I had my first post-op appointment with my surgical oncologist yesterday. Remind m...

September 26th is Mesothelioma Awareness Day , so I’d like to turn the mic over to my dear husband, Paul.  “Enough with the Liz chronicl...

I’m a little late to the party, but a fellow breast cancer blogger, Nancy Stordahl , who I so admire, proposed a summer blogging challeng...

Some days, I'm a bad cancer patient. Some days I can't stomach the thought of doing, erm, anything. Unless, maybe, it involv...

Leave it to me to put off blogging until I'm practically finished with my chemo regimen. But do you hear that, friends?? It's true ...

There's a thing that happens when you get diagnosed with cancer. Or maybe I'm a total nutter and it's just me. Not sure, but...

One more post should just about bring Paul's treatment up-to-date. Frankly, I'm itching to get on with things. So I'll be ...