Nicole's Notes

So, to start with, Scott Hamilton's (yes, the skater) great site about chemo, which was the first site to sit me down and explain what the 5FU and Leucovorin were doing inside me (besides, presumably, wiping out the cancer), and why it was pissing off the cells in my mouth in the meantime. Much more informative and easier to navigate than the American Cancer Society's page.

One of the message boards on the ChemoCare website mentioned SemiColon - a colon cancer Yahoo! group. So I signed up for that. What the heck, I get a ton of spam in my inbox currently. Some of it ought to be relevant. There was a link there to a Cafe Press store (I was already familiar with Cafe Press, but if you're not, check it out), where I bought a great mug that reads "I didn't survive cancer to die of stress!", and another that says "Colon Cancer Screening: a good thing to get behind you".

From there I found Cancer and Careers which is a much more serious website about trying to juggle cancer treatment and a job. Welcome to my life. Sheesh. Speaking of which, I hope to return to my desk and phones and stuff tomorrow.

That site mentioned Molly McMaster's Colossal Colon tour, and I vaguely remembered it had been in this area at some point this fall, right around the time they found my tumour. I went to her Rolling To Recovery website, and found out I'm not the only one dumbfounding doctors by not fitting the colon cancer demographic. Molly's also very good about responding to folks that sign her guest book. :)

In her links page, I found a link to Planet Cancer. It's a cancer site aimed at young adults. Their "Top 10 (+2) Responses to Enduring a Colonoscopy" is just too damn funny! This is my kind of cancer site! They also have a Cafe Press store that made me laugh, created by Steve, a very funny Bostonite. Ordered that mug too.

I hope the web links in this posting work. If not, give me a day or two to swear at it and see if I can badger Jason into making it work.