Posted on October 30, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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Yes…there’s a week 7 update (and yes, it’s late) but thankfully it’s not an update on week 7 of treatment. It’s week 1 of healing after 6 wretched weeks of treatment (Woo!) but also the week where there is the highest dose of radiation…
Category: By the Week, Treatment UpdatesTags: cancer, cancer blog, clinical research, fatigue, fear, fraction, Healing, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, reflection, side effects, skin toxicity, tongue ulcers, week 7
Posted on October 13, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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How is it already the end of week 5? How is there only 1 week to go? And why didn’t the first 3 weeks go by this quickly? Actually I’m not sure these weeks have gone by all that fast after all. I think…
Category: By the Week, Treatment UpdatesTags: cancer, cancer blog, clinical research, fear, Healing, pathology, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, sharon spencer, side effects, uab, week 5
Posted on September 29, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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Lots of new developments in week 3. End of last week brought absolute fatigue and thankfully we were able to rest all weekend so I could catch up a little. Monday I was up and ready to run 6 marathons and blew through the…
Category: By the Week, Treatment UpdatesTags: birmingham, cancer, cancer blog, clinical research, fear, Healing, pathology, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, side effects, uab, week 3
Posted on September 25, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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This post has nothing to do with our wedding, but those pictures remind me of happier days and days where I felt beautiful, healthy, and 100% like myself. I struggled far more in the last 4 days than I care to admit, but I…
Category: Reflections, Treatment UpdatesTags: birmingham, cancer, cancer blog, clinical research, clinical trials, fear, fraction, genetics, Healing, pathology, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, side effects, uab
Posted on September 16, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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Week one of radiation is officially behind us: 5 days of masks, mouth pieces, gowns, beams, and white sheets covering hard plastic tables. 5 days of walking down the hall in a hospital gown (neked from the waist up) with my co-workers staring a…
Category: By the Week, Treatment UpdatesTags: cancer, cancer blog, cancer treatment, clinical research, fear, fraction, pathology, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, uab, week 1
Posted on September 6, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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Things have been so up and down, that I don’t even know where to start. Just last week we went from getting perfectly clear results from my PET scan on Tuesday morning to getting Strata test results back on Thursday, finding out there’s a…
Category: ReflectionsTags: adenoid cystic carcinoma, atm, atm mutation, birmingham, cancer, cancer blog, clinical research, clinical trials, dna, eddy yang, fear, genetic testing, genetics, pathology, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, sharon spencer, strata, strata trial, uab hospital
