Life is a Labyrinth

I have been playing some games on my computer lately, no not Angry Birds, although I do enjoy that game. I like to pretend the green pigs are cancer cells. Lately I discovered a company that makes iPad apps called Big Fish Games. They use beautiful art and elegant brain teasers to take you through a story. It is funny how I see real life imitates these games, like trying to find some implement that you know you left somewhere in your house. But mostly there are those decisions that take you through a door and then another. It seems like this journey though cancer treatments is like that these days, you just never know where something will take you. And they are never easy. You have to get this or that paper, or test to qualify and then you wait. But you have to bug people or you might wait forever.

I just took myself off the drug Femara. My Oncologist seriously doubted it would do much good at this point but I wanted to try. Ugh, the side effects were unbearable -- incredible back pain and stomach pain that felt like I had swallowed razor blades. Anyway, Dr. Emens' study starts for me week after next so I am putting my faith in that for awhile. And then she stepped through a door that was opened by a magic insurance letter!

So I will keep you posted, Baltimore here I come.