The reason that these years have been the best, is that I think that I might have had a somewhat positive impact on your lives. And an impact on your understanding of what cancer is and what it can do, to both those of us that it has personally attacked, and those of us who know someone who is going through it. -Eric McLean
Illness Narrative: Eric’s Story
By: Dawn Dent with Eric McLean Foreword The following narrative of what my ex-boyfriend (whom I’m still very close to) went through during the course of his leukemia was an…
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It begins…again
There are things in life that I will never understand. Today, after over four years of remission, my cancer has relapsed and I was diagnosed with leukemia. My worst nightmare,…
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas! I got to start my Christmas day off with two pieces of what the hospital calls “sausage,” some corn flakes w/ milk, and a bowl of mixed fruit.…
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Lions, Tigers, and Bone-Marrow Biopsies…Oh My!
Today I am feeling much better. My fevers seem to be a bit more controlled and not going above 99.5. My cough is slowly getting better. My headaches are gone…
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Let the chemo begin…
Well, today was my first day of chemotherapy. To begin my day I decided to get as prepared for this shit as possible. I got up and took a shower…
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CHEESECAKE!!!!
Well last night definitely did not end well. Almost right after I finished posting yesterday’s blog, I became very nauseous, and then ended up vomiting and dryheaving for the next…
Read More Full house!
Hi everyone! Spirits are still pretty high. The side effects from the chemotherapy still haven’t been showing their true colors. I expect them to come full circle by Monday or…
Read More Spinal taps and radiation!?
Well, I had mentioned in yesterday’s blog that I would begin today by addressing some of the treatment concerns that I have had. I have a different doctor this time…
Read More First round of chemo complete!
Well everyone…as 2007 comes to a close, as does my induction round of chemotherapy. I completed my 5 day regimen of chemo this morning. The next steps from here involve…
Read More Spinal tap tomorrow…ugh.
As most of you noticed, I didn’t post anythng yesterday. No worries…nothing is wrong. I just wasn’t having the greatest of days and not a whole ton happened. I only…
Read More Headache blah…
Hi everyone. I still have a pretty intense headache from that spinal tap so I am going to keep tonight’s blog fairly short. Started off my day with an…
Read More Can’t move!
Well I told myself I wasn’t going to post anything again today and that is mainly because I cannot seem to shake this headache. I have had it since the…
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Biopsy bumped up to today
The last couple days have been going absolutely terrible. Every day thus far has been worse than the last. The cells are still dying throughout my body and they won’t…
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There goes the hair!
Well, today I got the results back from the bone marrow biopsy. That was the biggest event of the day. My mind has been running at a million miles per…
Read More And so we wait…
About the time I heard the news from my doctor yesterday about my bone marrow biopsy results, I started getting some slightly elevated temperatures. Sometimes these higher temperatures are classified…
Read More Had a scare today
Well the day started off with a high temperature again and when my blood results came back, they noticed that my hematocrit and platelets were low but my white count…
Read More Headaches going away….
The last couple of days have been pretty lax. I still can’t seem to get rid of these headaches and now I am having some pretty extreme back pain. I…
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