06.09.2010
Come on, people! Keep me laughing. They say it’s the best medicine…
Here are the rules:
1. You come up with new lyrics to a known song. Your lyrics help us laugh at cancer or its treatment. (Ex: “All the Single Ladies” rewritten as “All the Chemo Ladies”)
2. You submit the lyrics to me by email before June 25, 2010. Please use the subject line “Contest.”
3. I will select winners from the entries and post them on my blog. If there are a lot of entries, I may post finalists for you to help me judge.
4. First place winner will get a ChemoBabe t-shirt. Second and third place winners will get other Babe Swag.
5. Entries must include (a) the name you want me to post on the website, (b) your mailing address, t-shirt size, and phone number & (c) a link to the song you are making fun of. (BTW I won’t give out or store any contact information — it’s just for swag delivery.)
Tags: contest, coping
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03.04.2010
I did my part to get Twitter up to the 10 billionth tweetmark today.
Call it TweetTherapy. Twitter is the new century’s scream room. The nice thing is, when you rant, some folks are actually sporting enough to cheer you on.
(Note to you twitterati, I marked my tweets with the hashtag #crankycancer and I will continue to do so if you want to hear more of my mad ravings about this horrid disease.)
For those of you who are still old school blog readers, here are a few of my #crankycancer tweets, grammatically revised for readability and numbered for your commenting pleasure:
1. The side effects of chemo have nothing to do with how effective it is. They are two different mechanisms: metabolism & angiogenesis.
2. God does not “give troubles to those who can handle them.” I was in a support meeting this week with people who had WAY more than they could handle.
3. Young adult cancer lit is too sassy/hip/ironic. And there is not enough about parenting through treatment, which totally sucks.
4. People kick/scream/moan/bitch thru treatment and survive. Others are wondrously soulful and die.
5. People don’t talk about the utter violence of cancer treatment. It hurts us and our bodies, but we tie things up in bows.
6. Cancer is not one disease but many diseases with a common mechanism. What works for one disease may not for another. Your radical vegan diet may cure your cancer but it may do nothing for mine. Just think of the issue of soy and different types of breast cancer.
7. So much of treatment is handled at home, alone, outside of the health care system. And the patient ed I have received has been a joke.
8. I know how lucky I am to be treatable. But can we make treatments more humane? Support research, not mythology.
9. If plastics have toxins, why do so many cancer organizations have little plastic bracelets to support their cause?
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02.13.2010
Okay, Babes. I am having a contest in honor of my last chemo at the end of the month. Help me get through by showing your spunk and spirit.
You have cancer, you are in chemo, none of that is good. But there is a part of your spirit that cancer cannot touch: your humor, zaniness, artistry. Share this part of yourself with me and all our fellow Babes out there!
Here are the rules:
1. Take a picture of your baldacious self that represents the part of you that cancer cannot touch. (For inspiration, you can see Christina’s picture in the previous humor entry.)
2. Post it here, on my Facebook fan page between now and February 23, 2010 (two days before my last chemo).
3. I will post all the pictures on my webpage on February 24, 2010 and let you comment on your favorites.
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4. Commenting (it won’t really be a vote) will take place between February 24 and whenever I get out of my chemo hole, probably 7-10 days later. There will be several categories, depending on what you all post!
5. Winners will receive a personal phone call or Skype chat (for the international Babes) with me. (I have a feeling we will have many winners! I can’t help it. I adore you.)
Go ahead! Show me what you are really made of!!
(This contest is largely inspired by Christina and Frânzi! Thanks for getting us started, ladies!)
Tags: babes, baldness, Humor, pictures
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02.01.2010
I am so relentlessly geeky.
Red is nausea on a scale of 1-10. Blue is fatigue on a scale of 1-10. The fatigue gets worse with each cycle and is so much more erratic.
Tags: chemo rollercoaster, fatigue, geek, nausea
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