josigirl13's Cancer Blog

Cancer Blog Entries Archived by Date

•  2010 (1)
  
  
  •  February (1)
    •  Sacramento Memorial Service Dear Friends, Family, and Supporters, A memorial service in celebration of Josi's life will be held on February 13th at 1:00pm at the Vizcaya Pavilion in Sacramento. Immediately following the cerem...
    
    
    
•  2009 (17)
  
  
  •  December (4)
    •  Memorial Service Information Dear Friends, Family, and Supporters, In one way or another, you have all come to know Josiane Dixon over the last 33 years. As many of you also may know, Josi passed away on December 24th, Christm...
    
    
    
    •  Silent Night On Christmas Eve, shortly after 1PM, our beloved Josi passed away. At her bedside were her mother and father, Barb Dixon Jobin and Keith Dixon; her stepparents, Roger Jobin and Anne Dixon; her brothe...
    
    
    
    •  Important Message from Josi's Family We know that many of you have communicated with Josi on this blog. You have shared your experiences, provided support for her in her fight with luekemia, and delivered hope for not only Josi, but also...
    
    
    
    •  Darker side of the moon I was so excited to finally leave the hospital for Thanksgiving, only to be right back here Thursday night. After being home for little more than a day, I developed a fever and they thought they shou...
    
    
    
  •  November (3)
    •  Thanksgiving After over a month in this same hospital room they are finally sending me home on Wednesday! YAY! In time for Thanksgiving, in time for my little sister to come home from her first semester away at ...
    
    
    
    •  Dark side of the moon Greetings from the far- off galaxy of bone marrow transplant. I am just coming around the dark side of the moon, to see the light of the sun and the earth again. Recognition. As most of you know ...
    
    
    
    •  Week after transplant It's been a while since my last update and a lot has happened since then. I came into the hospital on October 19th to start the process of bone marrow transplant. They gave me 3 days of chemo follow...
    
    
    
  •  October (3)
    •  It's not an operation... I am such a procrastinator. I have been meaning to post for at least a week, since I got the calendar of "exciting" events for the next month or so. So to get us all on the same page, let me recap b...
    
    
    
    •  Counts are good! My spinal tap went well and I have a normal amount of wbc's in my fluid. This is fantastic news and has me breathing a major sigh of relief. I am less worried mow about the biopsy. One step closer to ...
    
    
    
    •  Scared I am going in today for a spinal tap, finally! They will take a sample of my spinal fluid and test it for white blood cells. There are not supposed to be white blood cells in your spinal fluid, so i...
    
    
    
  •  September (2)
    •  Counts are up! My white blood cell count has finally turned the corner and started to come up. I was at 2.9 today, which is an amazing turn-around in just a matter of days! My platelets are a little slower to reco...
    
    
    
    •  Terra Firma I am back on solid ground. That is NOT on hospital grounds! It's hard to really sum up the last couple of weeks because I find I feel differently about them day by day. I did blog about them while ...
    
    
    
  •  August (4)
    •  Let's get the show on the road. So this has been an uneventful week. I wasn't sure if I was even going to blog but since my "fans" have been begging for an update, here's the lowdown: Last week I learned that my wbc count in my ...
    
    
    
    •  Good Counts!!! Counts from yesterday were 36!!!!!!! YUP, that's right, 3-6. Take that, cancer. I guess the puking and the headaches paid off. Well on my way to zero. I'm hoping to get there by Friday, but the d...
    
    
    
    •  The battle begins... I thought I would recap the first week of treatment for all of you. It's a bit of a different game plan this time around. It seems like my doctor wants to just play it by ear and see what works befo...
    
    
    
    •  FML...aka Relapse. Cancer is a bastard. It just never goes away, hangs on for dear life, never gives up, is damn hard to kill. Why can't the good things in life be as tenacious? I guess then we wouldn't appreciate the...
    
    
    
  •  February (1)
    •  Update What's up y'all? All is well. I am halfway through my maintenance treatments and can't wait until the end! I had a little trouble with the methotrexate in September (I was experiencing some MAJOR s...
    
    
    
•  2008 (1)
  
  
  •  June (1)
    •  One year Greetings bloggers! Long time no see! Thankfully, the last six months have been focused on getting healthy and rehabilitated to my former self. I am one year from my diagnosis date and happily canc...
    
    
    
•  2007 (32)
  
  
  •  December (1)
    •  Free at last!!! I'm sure many of you already know, but the word is official: I am out of the hospital and DONE with chemo!! Hooray! The end was decidedly anti-climactic (involving a half-day's wait for test results...
    
    
    
  •  November (4)
    •  Thanksgiving Yes, I made it out in time! They let me out of the hospital the monday before thanksgiving so I was able to spend it with my family and friends. My mouth had healed enough so that I could eat a litt...
    
    
    
    •  Quelle Dommage!! That is all I have to say about being back in the hospital. On Tuesday evening I was just getting home from a long day of blood transfusions, which usually make me feel like a new woman (perhaps its ...
    
    
    
    •  Sweet November I finished my 5th round of chemo on Monday and am back home. Hooray! I spent 5 days in the hospital getting Cytarabine and Etoposide, the ugliest of my chemo drugs. Damn that Cytarabine is nasty st...
    
    
    
    •  Round 5 As many of you know I have started round 5 of 6 rounds of chemo. I was admimtted to the hospital on halloween (which is okay as I am a halloween humbug) and will likely be here until monday, is that ...
    
    
    
  •  October (3)
    •  Young women with cancer... I have recently been inspired by Kris Carr, a 31 year old who was diagnosed with an "untreatable" form of cancer, who made a documentary and wrote a book about being diagnosed. She worked with other ...
    
    
    
    •  Be your own advocate I posted this on the community blog but I thought I would also share it with you, my regular readers here: I wanted to share a word with you all on being your own health care advocate. When I look a...
    
    
    
    •  Culinary delights and other news I know it has been a while since I posted, but I have not been feeling like I've had much to say. As you know from my last post, I reached the halfway point at the end of September. To celebrate I w...
    
    
    
  •  September (4)
    •  We're halfway there... In the immortal words of Jon Bon Jovi (shoutout to Mara and Graig in Jersey), "whoa we're halfway there!" I am officially halfway done with my chemo treatments and will start with round 1 again on Oc...
    
    
    
    •  Feelin' Groovy I am home again and feeling VERY well. I have no headaches, my appetite is pretty much back (so much for those 20 lbs I lost last month!), and my energy level is getting better by the day. Sadly I a...
    
    
    
    •  Alia's Hiking Fundraiser Hello! It's Alia again with another update… Can you believe it… my experience with Hike for Discovery is almost coming to a close?! We take on our adventure in just a few weeks, hiking...
    
    
    
    •  Next... I am feeling pretty much recovered from the last round of treatments and so it must be time to start another! I am going back into the hospital for round three on Wednesday. This round is supposed t...
    
    
    
  •  August (3)
    •  rest for the weary I am finally home! I left Sutter on Wednesday afternoon and was relieved to see my bed. It felt weird being in the world after so long. I realized how weak I became this month while climbing the 5 ...
    
    
    
    •  light at the end of the tunnel I am still in the hospital today, Friday and am set for another fabulous weekend at the Hotel SGH. However, my doc says that he will have me out of here by wednesday (so of course my goal is monday o...
    
    
    
    •  Faithful Bloggers Thanks for checking in! I have not posted for so long because this month has not exactly gone as planned... I went into the hospital on Wednesday, August 1st for my second round of chemo treatment...
    
    
    
  •  July (9)
    •  "You give me fever..." "In the morning, fever all through the night." Yesterday SUCKED. I think I slept for like 20 hours or something. I had a fever and a headache all day and was pretty much a blob on the couch. My au...
    
    
    
    •  Good Morning Bloggers! Or as some would say "bleaders" (blog readers). I know my post is overdue. It was a rough weekend friday and saturday. Friday I think was my worst day yet. I just felt like crap. Everyone said I ...
    
    
    
    •  Good days and bad days Sorry I haven't posted in a few days. It seems weird to post when things are going well and I'm at home, and not much is going on health-wise. I have been feeling pretty well since I left the hospit...
    
    
    
    •  There's no place like home I am so glad to be back at home! The marvelous Dr. Sayegh said the magic words circa 7am and I arrived home by 11am this morning. I am still going to be getting the enzyme treatment, but as an outpa...
    
    
    
    •  Cruisin' the Cancer Wing Greetings from 4th floor west, Sutter General! I am back in the hospital for a short stay (hopefully) to do the last part of the induction phase of my chemotherapy. Basically, I am just kickin' it h...
    
    
    
    •  Fundraiser My friend Alia is doing a hike as a fundraiser in my honor for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society. Check it out: I am raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Hike for Discovery in honor o...
    
    
    
    •  the end of round one After a nice long stay at home the last week and a half, I will be going back into the hospital on Thursday. I am starting an enzyme treatment called L-Asparginase. This is an injection rather than ...
    
    
    
    •  More from Dan Porras Alas, my friends, the last several days have been very uneventful. I had a doctor's appointment on Friday. They changed the dressing on my PIC line. That's about it. No news and nothing happening....
    
    
    
    •  i am the weirdest normal person... So here is the good news of the day folks...my cytogenetic tests were normal! This basically means that my leukemia cells have the same amount of chromosomes as my normal cells which is a good thing ...
    
    
    
  •  June (8)
    •  How to post a comment here: Some of you have had trouble posting your comments on my blog. If you would like to comment on one of my posts, click the title of the post at the bottom that is underlined and in orange type, or cli...
    
    
    
    •  Mom's pork chops I'm home!! The doctor gave the thumbs up for me to go home after 5 days in the hospital. I have to say the best thing is being able to eat a home-cooked meal. Looking forward to sleeping in my own ...
    
    
    
    •  Day 3 Little happening today. I got a great night's sleep thanks to a sleeping pill. But it was kind of odd to wake up with my doctor at the foot of my bed saying "wake up josi". Someone had even deliver...
    
    
    
    •  THE S.S. DIAGNOSIS : by Dan Porras yaaaaargh, matey's, gather yer swabby keisters by, and i shall recant a tail of woe and high adventure, yaaarrgh, the tail of capt. dixon and why they call the dreaded ocean a "mistress". i was...
    
    
    
    •  josi's leukemia battle a la Dan Porras i have to share the first in a series of tales told to me by my good friend from law school Dan Porras. This is just the first installment...stay tuned for future episodes.... "yo, i was on my way...
    
    
    
    •  international woman of mystery Greetings from Sutter General! Yes, I survived my first day of hospital admission, with merely some pin pricks to show for it. I arrived here on the 4th floor west of Sutter General around 11 in the...
    
    
    
    •  the big day well, it has finally arrived. the day i get to find out what the hell is going to happen to me in the next few weeks, the day i get to start actually doing something to get better. i'm still in good...
    
    
    
    •  "You have ALL" As many of you already know, I have recently been diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). This is a type of blood cancer that attacks cells in the blood and bone marrow. I am being admitt...
    
    
    

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