She believed she could, so she did. A cancer patient journey

What's it like in the day of me right now? Well let me break it down for you. 7am: This tends to be the time that I start hearing the pitter patter of the paws. This typically comes from Bailey who likes to sleep in the living room and wake me up by doing her swing dance in the living room. In turn with my waking up Sandy and Tucker wake up and begin their morning routine of stepping on me, trying to roll over on me and sneeze in my face. Where is Lucy you ask? Oh she is on her dog bed trying her best to bury her head under the pillow and ignore us all. 8am: This is typically around the time I finally manage to roll myself out of bed and let the dogs out. I normally make something to eat. This all does depend on how I feel. If I'm not feeling the best and not sure if I am going to be able to keep it down then I forgo having breakfast. If I do eat then I make my breakfast and sit out on the back steps in the backyard with the dogs. Normally this means I have Bailey and Lucy ...

3/3/2020: That's the day that my battle begun. " You have a maligant tumor in your espoghagus." Those were the first words my doctor told me when I woke up from having an endoscopy. A five minute procedure that changed my life and put me on the path that I am now on. Those are the words that changed my life. Not the words that you want to hear when you first come out of a procedure. Not the words that anybody wants to hear. By Friday I was in seeing the oncologist working out my treatment plan. The following three weeks I had a petscan done, a feeding tube, blood transfusion and port placed followed by my first round of chemo. As you can tell treatment can move fast. Let's talk about my chemotherapy treatment for a moment. Four hours in office having two different chemotherapy drugs administered through my port followed by my friendly chemo pump, whom I named Tag since he gets to tag along with me for 46 hours administering a slow drip of medicine. I get to enjoy ...