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Day One Completed

Just got home from my first day of radiation. I knew the treatment wouldn’t take much time each day, but I was still pleasantly surprised when, after under 40 minutes, I was walking out the door with mom. And all future days will be closer to 30 minutes. The treatment will start everyday with my [...]

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Houston and Back

The scar is healing! And disappearing in my thick hair. I’m definitely ready for that. Mom and I flew down to Houston on Sunday afternoon. I had several appointments scheduled on Monday to prep for the radiation that’s supposed to start next week. We stayed overnight at the hotel that I’ll be staying at for [...]

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Still a Bit Sore

Hey all! Well, I’m back in Minneapolis, staying at my loft. The picture above was taken this weekend. Aaron came down to Mankato to visit and we cooked a great dinner for my parents. The electric cart was a better option of shopping for groceries than walking. :) It’s good to be all the way [...]

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Back in Cold, Much Needed MN

Sorry for the delay in updates to the site. Last week got a little crazy and then suddenly I was leaving Houston. On Tuesday I started having severe headaches from coming off of one of the drugs I was on. It was pretty nasty and so I wasn’t up for much web updating. And by [...]

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Slowly Recovering

Today was actually a pretty busy day. It started out at the hospital — for the last day or two I’ve slowly had more and more swelling on the side of my face. Combine that with my inability to hear from that ear (something I’ve already been told would slowly get better) and I thought [...]