Kicking Cancer's A** -- My Road to Recovery

I wasn't gonna write another post until I had my CT scan next week (Wednesday, Feb. 28), but needed to vent. Mostly, I have good days. Those outweigh my bad or mediocre days by far and for that, I am grateful. However, the past several days have been rough. I was backed into by an 18-wheeler which crushed in my hood. I went to get estimates for repair and now he's acting like I'm the one who did something wrong. Thank God I have a witness because he first tried to say I rolled forward into him! That was Monday night when I was coming back from Corpus Christi and got stuck in a 3-hour traffic jam on the freeway. Then day before yesterday, I developed some pain in my underarm area (and apparently some swelling). It probably was the worst ache I felt in the past month. Then, same day, another part of my broken tooth fell out and there was new pain there (that pain comes and goes). I was gonna get that fixed, but my insurance company messed up and said that dental surgeon w...

Well hello and suffice it to say that I haven't written in a while. Will be doing a trip to Memphis, Tennessee for work in a couple days. When I return, I am gonna get back on this cancer thing. I am supposed to have a second opinion regarding the chemotherapy with the leading breast cancer oncology expert at the University of San Antonio - Health Science Center. That hasn't happened yet, but I imagine she is a busy lady. The puzzle before me is still somewhat of a jumbled mess and I don't even think I've got the borders done yet. Maybe that meeting will help me but I will be bringing an even longer list of questions to that consultation. I'm sure I will annoy the heck out of that doctor before I am done. And it is probably time to check into some financial resources. I don't know how all that works and I have to see a clear and logical way to do whatever I choose to do, whether that would be clinical trials or whatever. It may involve something like a 5- to...