Heal Write Now for Trauma Survivors & Adults Abused as Children https://healwritenow.com Writing & Inspiration to Heal Trauma Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:14:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.5 Facing Facts: Fear & Reality https://healwritenow.com/facing-facts-fear-reality/ https://healwritenow.com/facing-facts-fear-reality/#respond Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:14:16 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5660 July 5th, 2022 I was changing the kitty litter and saw a bug scurry out from under the box. The pinchers were huge and it startled me. I’m not a bug a phobe. I routinely catch bees and wasps using a piece of a paper and an oversized cup and then release them outside. But […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/facing-facts-fear-reality/feed/ 0 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/some-days-are-just-hard/feed/ 0 Medical Update: The Windy Path https://healwritenow.com/medical-update-the-windy-path/ https://healwritenow.com/medical-update-the-windy-path/#respond Tue, 09 Aug 2022 08:56:53 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5614 I’ve not posted since late June and a lot has been happening. This is going to be a series of updates with free-writes and photos because I’m not sure how to capture everything in an informative and linear way. It’s going to be a series of posts because it’s been a lot and it’s too […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/medical-update-the-windy-path/feed/ 0 Update & Free Write https://healwritenow.com/update-free-write/ https://healwritenow.com/update-free-write/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:13:17 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5601 A lot has been happening in the last few weeks. I came off the Regeneron trial one day and the next was talking to a radiation oncologist and planning for treatment to shrink a growing lymph node above my left clavicle bone). Within a week I was getting fitted for a radiation mask during what’s […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/update-free-write/feed/ 7 REGN4018 Clinical Trial for Ovarian Cancer: Week 15 (Patient Perspective) https://healwritenow.com/regn4018-clinical-trial-for-ovarian-cancer-week-15-patient-perspective/ https://healwritenow.com/regn4018-clinical-trial-for-ovarian-cancer-week-15-patient-perspective/#respond Thu, 02 Jun 2022 12:56:52 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5594 My cancer is back and while I was told I would be able to get the second immunotherapy drug, Cemiplimab, when I progressed, because the protocol was changing to allow that option, when I actually needed it because I progressed, I was denied. I don’t know if it’s because the protocol has not formally changed […]

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