Tag: radiation therapy
Posted on October 6, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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I’m not sure if it’s the fact that I stayed in bed for nearly the entire day on Saturday, that this week the number of treatments left started getting smaller than the number of treatments behind me, or that my cold and allergies finally… Continue Reading “Week Four”
Category: By the Week, Treatment UpdatesTags: birmingham, cancer, cancer blog, concert, fear, foy vance, fraction, Healing, mom, nashville, pathology, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, sharon spencer, uab, week 4
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… Continue Reading “Week Three”
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… Continue Reading “The Valleys”
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 21, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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Week two is coming to a close, and I’m more than thankful to have 1/3 of these treatments behind me. This week has been much easier in so many ways, but I’m noticing that the end of the week is also the hardest. The… Continue Reading “Week Two”
Category: By the Week, Treatment UpdatesTags: birmingham, cancer, cancer blog, fear, fraction, pathology, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, side effects, surgery, uab, week 2
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… Continue Reading “Week One”
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 9, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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I was thinking on my way to work yesterday how the weight of things had lessened a little lately. How I haven’t felt the heaviness of what’s going on as much despite all the appointments, and I’ve actually forgotten anything happened for the most… Continue Reading “Game Time”
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… Continue Reading “Teenage Mutated Ninja Valerie”
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
Posted on August 24, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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**WARNING: Images included in this post may be hard to look at due to…reality** This journey has brought about emotions in me that seem to overwhelm me just enough that I cry. I actually hate crying, and I’m more than capable of going 6+… Continue Reading “Ready, Set, Simulate”
Category: How did we get here?, Treatment UpdatesTags: adenoid cystic carcinoma, birmingham, cancer, cancer blog, ct scan, dentist, fear, parotid gland, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, salivary gland tumor, sharon spencer, simulation, skin toxicity, stabilization mask, tumor, uab, uab hospital