I started this blog when I thought I might have ovarian cancer. There were signs tht this could be the case, after a long-stable cyst suddenly doubled in size and with my family history, so it qseemed a reasonable fear. When I decided to have the ovaries removed, a bilateral salpingo oopherectomy or BSO, i could not find any information the Internet regarding how other women with similar experiences had fared, I figured that my musings could prove informative to some one in the future facing a similar proceedure. That surgery ended up being uneventful and the subsequent hormonal repercussions minimal, and with the soon to follow baraast cancer diagnosis I continued to write about my thoughts and feelings through treatment with the continued hope of making sense of my own experience while perhaps offering something helpful to someone facing the same bad news and course of treatment.
The last few months, my own health is stable and I have been focused on my mother's. At some points that focus has become so consuming that it has threatened to compromise my ability to maintain my recently regained healthy status, but I'm getting it under control now. I literally haven't had time to write, despite the casual approach I take to this blog. Now that Mom is here in Nashville, I am able to help with her care in a way that requires less time and effort, and is generally less stressful, so I'm hoping to return to writing. It's been a very eventful time and whether or not anyone else is interested I want to record these events just in case I someday want to review the sequence of events or my thoughts at the time.
Still, it's been a long day and that's all in got for now...still learning how to type on the iPad, too. G'night.
