My journey of life while dying with Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer
The Energy Crisis The hardest fight I have while living with cancer is fatigue. This fatigue will make me fall asleep at the kitchen counter while typing on the computer. Or I will fall asleep while scrolling through Facebook. I have learned to never text while I am falling asleep! I sleep at night. Sometimes. …
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Financial Troubles I believe that everyone, at some point in their lifetime, have had financial troubles. Unless, of course, you are part of a husband and wife dual-income household, with at most two or no children, and receive ten thousand dollar checks from your parents for Christmas every year. Or even one year. For the …
I always think of things, all kinds of things, as I'm lying in bed just before I fall asleep. Our nighttime routine consists of watching TV for a little while, typically a recorded episode of "The Dead Files", while we both play Solitaire 2048. I shouldn't have introduced Solitaire 2048 to the hubs. He'll be …
Taking you back to a prior post, I mentioned that I am not a political person. I don’t discuss politics. I have told friends that I don’t discuss politics. I also don’t discuss religion. Yes, I agreed to do a political commercial for the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters. Recording a commercial is fun, I …
Two weeks ago, I recorded part of a documentary about clean water with Karen Erbach of Schiller Street Media. Karen and her partner, Patrick, both complimented me several times, and told me I should be doing a video blog (a "vlog") within my blog, because I have a "presence". I hate looking at myself in …
I was going to post this yesterday, but I forgot to add it to my post. Here is the Dad of the Bride speech given at Little One's wedding last Friday: Hello! Can you hear me now? Whoops, wrong carrier! Sorry Matt!* I am Rob Balza, Hope’s dad. One of the best days in my …
Last week was a huge and busy week in our lives. Monday, 9/24Monday, September 24th, was my 48th birthday! Considering I was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer when I was 44, and was supposed to be dead within six months after diagnosis, birthdays tend to mean a lot more. Baby Girl and myself …
Today is a gray, cloudy day outside. Even rained this afternoon a little bit after I got home. It's Hair Appointment DayLittle One made a hair appointment for me when she made her appointment to get everything ready for her wedding in NINE DAYS! She asked me to be there a little early in case …
I know, I know, it's been a while again. But I've just been living the boring cancer life. I did have some scans - a CT scan and a bone scan - because of increased pain. The scans came back with good news - there's even less cancer than there was in the scan from …
Living with cancer is hard. Expected response: No duh! Tell me something I don't already know! Living with cancer is not easy. Every little ache, every little pain... is it the cancer? Is it progressing? I wish there was a scanner - like the Progressive "name your price" tool - that I could use to …
