Last week I completed my brain radiation treatments, a total of eight sessions! I have Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia, so I get treatment for both Myeloid and Lymphoblastic types of cancer. We learned Lymphoblastic Leukemia cells like to gravitate into the Central Nervous System (brain and spinal fluid) and hang
A gentle primer on the unique cancer we’re dealing with.
You can’t always get what you want, especially when it comes to certainty!
Information = Knowledge = Understanding. Tracking my stats gives me a small sense of control in a very uncontrollable situation!
How did we get here?
Let’s dive into the details of my cancer treatment. I’m a project manager who deals with data and deadlines. Not much about this has gone according to plan, but I’m recording it all. I’m just coming to the end of Round Four (of an expected eight
I had planned to write about the cost of cancer treatment in Hong Kong a few weeks from now, along with the differences in the Hong Kong public and private healthcare systems. But today we find ourselves in the midst of making an impossible financial decision with a deadline of
Welcome to the first edition of our brand new publication — Plucky Day! Our family had some truly extraordinary experiences during our five years living in Shanghai. The city is a dazzling, futuristic landscape bursting with millions of people from all over China and the rest of the world. Every day