Olivia Newton John and Me!

Guess what we have in common? Beside the fact we are both blonde and beautiful (hahaha) we are both stage 4 breast cancer. This photo was from 2002 when she came to Thompson cancer survival center. Notice how big Dan’s smile is?! She has had two time recurrences since then.

Her stage 4 showed up in her back (2018). . Mine is in my spine ;just found out today—I bet my day was worse than yours. My darling sister Bev showed up this morning in the doc’s office so I wouldn’t be alone when I got the news.

So that means (after my doc Grant Clark called the elusive Erika Hamilton at Sarah Cannon) I will get chemo on Monday and the next week I get stereotactic radiation that focuses on zapping the cancer on t-12. I trust my team at Thompson cancer center implicitly. My hubs usually tells me if my news means I’ll be toast but he thinks I can live with this 5-10 more years. However, it all blows my mind. My friend and radiation therapist tells me Dr. Clark is king of stereotactic radiation. Next week I get chemo and the next week he’ll do 3 treatments to my spine. And then I’ll get chemo the next week. Sigh.

I wasn’t sure how to announce to world but figured Olivia Newton John might get yr attention. She’s rich and famous and still is terminal. Like mine, her cancer has returned several times. Tnbc is like cockroaches. Once you see one cell, you know there are others.

So onward.