Cancer Archives - Heal Write Now for Trauma Survivors & Adults Abused as Children https://healwritenow.com Writing & Inspiration to Heal Trauma Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:07:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.5 Some Days Are Just Hard https://healwritenow.com/some-days-are-just-hard/ https://healwritenow.com/some-days-are-just-hard/#respond Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:07:47 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5649 My July 1st outpatient visit was one of my rougher days to date and it was not because treatment was painful or intense but because the hospital was overcrowded, understaffed, and bad news collided with bad timing. Here’s some of what I shared, in email, with my friends Lynn and Kathy, after bawling my eyes […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/medical-update-the-windy-path/feed/ 0 Reflections on Coping: The 1st Six Weeks of the REGN4018 Clinical Trial for Ovarian Cancer (3 of 3 – April 2022) https://healwritenow.com/reflections-on-coping-the-1st-six-weeks-of-the-regn4018-clinical-trial-for-ovarian-cancer-3-of-3-april-2022/ https://healwritenow.com/reflections-on-coping-the-1st-six-weeks-of-the-regn4018-clinical-trial-for-ovarian-cancer-3-of-3-april-2022/#respond Wed, 13 Apr 2022 16:18:03 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5558 April 2022 How many days did you think you might die during the trial?” my friend Kathy asked when we sat at a smoothie place seeing each other for the first time socially, in public, in months. Too many,” I said. “It was intense. The only other time I felt that way was at the […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/reflections-on-coping-the-1st-six-weeks-of-the-regn4018-clinical-trial-for-ovarian-cancer-3-of-3-april-2022/feed/ 0 Reflections on Coping: The 1st Six Weeks of the REGN4018 Clinical Trial for Ovarian Cancer (1 of 3 – Feb. 2022) https://healwritenow.com/reflections-on-coping-the-1st-six-weeks-of-the-regn4018-clinical-trial-for-ovarian-cancer-1-of-3-feb-2022/ https://healwritenow.com/reflections-on-coping-the-1st-six-weeks-of-the-regn4018-clinical-trial-for-ovarian-cancer-1-of-3-feb-2022/#respond Wed, 13 Apr 2022 16:16:10 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5517 These posts are excerpts from my free-writing, phone notes, and journal entries from the first six weeks of the REGN4018 trial. While my first posts hopefully capture the facts, data, and information about this trial from a patient perspective, these three posts are about how I coped and managed and the people who made that […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/reflections-on-coping-the-1st-six-weeks-of-the-regn4018-clinical-trial-for-ovarian-cancer-1-of-3-feb-2022/feed/ 0 REGN4018 Clinical Trial (Weeks 5 & 6): Plot Twist https://healwritenow.com/regn4018-clinical-trial-weeks-5-6-plot-twist/ https://healwritenow.com/regn4018-clinical-trial-weeks-5-6-plot-twist/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2022 21:25:48 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5507 I have felt physically better in the last week and a half than I have since starting the trial. That is a huge relief and I’m enjoying having some energy, stamina, and appetite. When I got the REGN4018 at a 150 mg. dose, as an outpatient, for the first time in week five I was […]

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