12/26/2011

You're the best.

12/19/2011

You're welcome.

12/18/2011

Last dose.

My mom always told me to not play with my food. She never said anything about pills...

Please pray for Tracey. Her MRI reading is tomorrow.

www.theheliumburden.blogspot.com

11/15/2011

Well you know what they say... laughter is the best medicine.

Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen...

HDC: Day 1

If this isn't hell, ladies and gentlemen... I don't know what is.
Anti-nausea, cute owl, 300mg of chemo.

HDC Round #1

Us cool kids in the cancer world refer to high dose chemotherapy as "HDC."

300 mg of Temodar every day for 5 days in a row.

Did I mention the double whammy IV - BCNU Chemotherapy drip I have to do, too?

Don't worry, it only takes 4 hours each day for 3 days in a row.

So... your math for the day:

(300 x 5 x 4 x 3) - 17,998 (in order to make it equal 2) = 2 much chemotherapy.

On a much happier note, Mehg AKA Veronica Corningstone came to visit me this weekend.

If I look excited it's because I didn't have to look like a crazy person in a hairnet on the tour of the Celestial Seasonings factory.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YEARGS!
Ahreeaad on, ahaa.

12/8/2011

If anyone wants more information on my tumor (also known as Pat), my best friend, Mehgan Teherani, currently in medical school at Texas A&M, did a presentation on ze tumor...

Click on below links:

GBM PowerPoint Presentation

GBM Handout

Me, Yeargs, and Teherani AKA Veronica Corningstone

Ahh ha ha ha ha. Found this on my computer.
Check out the Farah hairah. That took me like an hour at least to feather.

Steamboat Springs

Casey's family friends let us use their condo in Steamboat Springs for the weekend. It was so much fun!

On the way... 

Me, Einstein and Tom Sawyer.

We didn't spend a lot of time here or anything.

Cute. 

Cute.

Dinner Friday Night - Delish

Me and Callie

Ian and Me 

Saturday Night Dinner (I have no idea what our waitress is doing).

Sippin' on some Hennessy.

Pre-Tugboat - Yes, we put on our robes to go to a bar and dance.

Dancing at the Tugboat.
It's amazing how much de-robing was attempted.

After dancing at the Tugboat Bar.

Casey Berry pre- and post-shuffle.

Best weekend ever.

Thayunksgiving 2011

Thanksgiving was super fun this year. I flew to Dallas and got to see some friends and lots of family.

NOT normal for us. 

EXTREMELY normal for us.

The Breland Crew

Boots' birthday was on the 25th! I made her a German Chocolate Cake from scratch, pretty much saying eff you to brain surgery...

Maybe I didn't get the "smiling" memo.

But I definitely got the "karaoke" memo. 

We're cute. 

So pretty.
Wish I had her hair color, or really just her hair.

Christmas Card Photo 2011 - I'm naming it now.

My next treatment isn't until the 14th through the 18th of December. Trying to enjoy the next 2 weeks before 300mg of Temodar Chemo kicks my ask for 5 days... or maybe I'll kick its ask. We shall see.

11/23/2011

People ask me how I stay so positive throughout this process. Well, here's my secret... I do this in the mirror every morning.

Hehehehehehehe.

Really? I'm done?

Not sure how to describe the past 6 weeks...

The following video clip pretty much sums up the timing of it all:

Joel came with me to Denver yesterday for a pulmonary test and my IV Chemo drip.

We got to watch The Jerk. For some reason, I get my own room for the drip... It makes me feel a little VIP.

Joel

I was put into a box. Literally.

Excited/cocky that I get to be let out of the box.
Especially after the shockingly loud yells of the Pulmonary Test coach guy who loved to hear himself talk.

My plans for the mask go as follows:

An "Office Space" type scenario where I destroy it with a baseball bat to the tune of,

"Damn, It Feels Good to be a Gangsta'"

Thank you Jaqueline, Simone, Tiffany, Michael - all RAD techs (see what I did there?) and Debbie upstairs in Chemotherapy! I will miss you guys, but please don't cry, I live about 5 minutes away and I'll come bother you soon.

11/15/2011

I have no words.

It's Pat!

We decided to name my tumor Pat after the SNL character.

Male? Female? We're not sure...

Male? Perhaps...

Female? Could be...

Pretty huge. Jenne told me that I should at least be charging it rent if it's taking up that much space in my head. I agree. Pay up, Pat. Rent will cost you at least $5,000.00 per month for the next infinity months to compensate for the cost of brain surgery and really just for your general attitude.

Math for the day:

Brain Surgery + Cancer = Expensive

Oh yes it is... it's a toomah.

11/12/2011

Dances with wolves... not really.

For Callie's birthday, Nathan, Say, May, Callie and I went to a wolf sanctuary outside of Fort Collins. Although I'm sure they are lovely dancers, we didn't actually get to dance with them. Petting and french kissing only (not really a joke - one of them licked my teeth - it was weird). Very fun day!

Callie - think she's happy?

Nathan

Nathan and Say

Last night, me and Mo went to dinner with Ms. Casey Berry - woman pictured below in tiny fur vest.

Mo and Me 

So glad you purchased tiny vest. Looks great on you, Berry.

That's all. Love.

11/8/2011

Dear Andrea,

I love this photo of me, but are you trying to tell me that I have a lumpy head? You know I have a perfectly round head...

The other day my doctor said, "You actually don't look too bad with a bald head."
(I'll go ahead and assume that was a compliment).

11/6/2011

This is what Rarah did this morning...