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Chemo: Chapter 2
I start the second phase of chemo today: 12 weekly treatments of taxol. It's supposed to be kinder and gentler on me than my first four...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Oct 21, 2015


Up, down, up and onward
After some big sighs of relief that I seemed to be weathering my third chemo infusion better than my first two, last week turned on me...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Oct 7, 2015


Getting a hang of this chemo thing
I was dreading my third round of chemo. Round three hit a friend of mine harder than any other.
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Sep 25, 2015


So long, hair
It started falling out in the faintest of wisps — a few hairs at a time, the day after my second chemo treatment. Then this morning, most...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Sep 15, 2015


So far, so good ... and a new 'do!
One week and one day after round one of chemo, I'm feeling remarkably healthy — gratefully so and with a short new 'do I'm calling my...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Sep 4, 2015


Welcome to my world, chemo
Chemo has a weird way of making you dread it as much as you look forward to getting it over already. Today, I shared my first day of it...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Aug 27, 2015


T minus less than a week to chemo
Believe it or not, here comes the start of my four-month dance with chemo. I report for duty on Thursday, August 27, with Sean and my...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Aug 21, 2015


OK, red devil, here I come ...
I'm still recovering with a capital R — feeling better than I figured I'd be so soon after surgery. Aside from two plastic tubes looping...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Aug 4, 2015


My cancer starting line
Sometimes I think in book titles. The one that came to mind as I embarked on the most challenging chapter in my life: The Good Kind of a...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Jun 11, 2015
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