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Hot days and cool cooking

The continued heat makes everything harder to do. There is a certain inertia, when you step outside and a hot slap assaults your face. No rain since May. I am going walking early in the morning while it’s cooler. Last

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CA -125 Ovarian cancer blood test

Last week, was my OFF chemo week. I felt somewhat like I was playing ‘hookie’. I felt pretty darn good, well except for the bum leg but even that one is improving. For the first time, in many months (nearly

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Eyebrow….wigs?

The other day, my friend Bonnie came for her weekly visit and to either take me out to dinner, or picking up something.  This time, I felt well enough to go out. After ordering our dinner, we talked about ‘everything’. She asked

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Door Number 1-2 or 3?

A few years ago, there was a T.V show with that title. Contestants would go through a series of differnt question they had to answer correctly and then they got the choice of the 3-curtained doors. Two had nice and

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‘Lawd… Lawd have Mercy’.

Before anyone thinks I am making fun, that’s not so. This came to me the other day when I was still hugging the couch. It was a long time ago, when I first arrived in Long Island, N.Y. as a

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Couchsurfing…

‘Couchsurfing’ – Travel the world- explore your city and host new friends. Couchsurfing is the world’s largest travel community. Well now. My couchsurfing has been everything BUT that. I am counting now 16 days, on this rust-terra cotta colored couch.

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Too close for comfort.

If this were not my life, I would believe someone made it up! What more can possibly happen? It’s nearly two weeks ago, now, that when I went for chemo, we noticed my right leg being really swollen. All the

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No breaks to catch…

I was finally on board with bald and cold head and all inclusions thereof. I was being strong and gracious (except a tiny fraction here and there). Back in December, on one of my visits to Cameron in Telluride, I

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Goldilocks no more.

As the days were bumping along and I was just about to catch my emotional equilibrium, there came the next surprise, courtesy of chemo. Went to take shower and got my stuff ready and shampooed my hair, when I felt

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