by Emily Suess | Apr 18, 2021 | Brain Tumor, Breaking News
I actually wrote what follows a few days ago and then forgot to hit publish. *** I have a had a few more days to process things, and I am feeling physically and mentally better. I always prefer to feel more empowered than less, so I’ve been taking care of things...
by Emily Suess | Apr 8, 2021 | Brain Tumor, Breaking News
Good Lord a lot has happened since my last post, and advanced warning: this one is not going to be my feel-good entry of the year. When we last left off, I was promoting my second-annual, read-it-for-free-in-March promo for Who You Gonna Believe. That went reasonably...
by Emily Suess | Feb 8, 2021 | Brain Tumor, Breaking News, Zentangles
Tumor Board In case you haven’t seen me mention it on Twitter or otherwise heard me talking about it already, I got to speak with my oncologist (finally!) on Friday evening regarding the results of my most recent MRI. The radiologist’s report noted a...
by Emily Suess | Jan 12, 2021 | Brain Tumor, Breaking News
On Monday night, I had my twentieth brain MRI. It was just another routine scan to see if there were any changes in the malignant tumor on my brain stem, but the outpatient hospital visit was more distressing than usual. And I mean aside from the pandemic protocols...
by Emily Suess | Dec 28, 2020 | Brain Tumor, Breaking News
Christmas Eve was horrible. I was capital-D Depressed because of, well, all the things, and my pain was an 8.5 on a scale of 1-10. Dan decided we should put Boomer in the back seat of the car and go hunting for Candy Cane Lane, a local neighborhood here in Urbana...
by Emily Suess | Nov 1, 2020 | Brain Tumor, Breaking News, Zentangles
I did something I’m really proud of last month: I posted a new Zentangle video every day in October. It wasn’t always easy, and the drawings weren’t always good, but I persisted until I accomplished the thing: my Inktober Zentangle 2020 prompt list....
