Tech issues continued to plague me. My new phone came with a USB-C to USB-C charging cable but no usb-c power socket. I’d been charging it plugged straight into a powerboard I had with a usb-c direct lead out. But at hospital I would need a wall plug. I wracked my brain on the morning…
Author: Jen Eve
I've had cancer, twice. But I am more than that. I'm a writer, musician, and an optimist.
And the scan results are in…
On the day the world went dark, I was comforted by the fact that I could very vaguely still make out the tattoo on my wrist that matches my parents’. By the Thursday, I no longer could. On the Friday morning, I woke up on ward T13, by the window, squinting out at the skyline…
Thursday’s Terrifying Adventures in a Dark World
The next morning I had a call scheduled with my bestie in Sydney. But at 9am, a nurse and a porter turned up to take me off to an MRI immediately. Thank goodness someone had actually ordered me one. So off we went. I managed to get through it fine. Clarence was of course right…
The Day The World World Went Dark
On Wednesday the 8th of November the world went dark. I had been warned that when the cancer progressed again I would either go blind or drop dead. Rosa and I had discussed what would happen if it were the former. I would tell Siri to send her a message saying ‘I can’t see’. On…
The Continuing Story of Oxygen Jen
Still not having worked out the busses and entrances, I’m once again not as early as I might like for session 3. I go in, and Short and Terse brings me the new mask, saying a few short sentences that zoom past me and don’t make a lot of sense. Eventually she says ‘let me…
Hyperbaric Oxy-Jen
So as you all know, once my conventional doctors started telling me they had nothing really to help and that I’d die any day (over a year ago now, suckers), I started to look for what other options there might be out there in the wide world, because I wasn’t keen in being given up…
When Great Trees Fall…
I’ve found myself thinking of my friend Sarah a lot lately (to be fair, I often am, it’s not a new thing), and inevitably crying. It’s been getting to me lately – I just want to hear her voice one last time. I still grieve the hours of voicenotes between us, lost from my phone…
Dare to dream, now go do the things!
At the risk of saying the same thing over and over again (though if you’re anything like me, repetition of a useful idea never goes astray), I wanted to tell you about a conversation I had yesterday at my local organic shop. That’s a bougie sentence isn’t it… I’m sure I’ll discuss organic food at…
One eyed cats, and other dreams for the future
When you sit across from that doctor who, with a pained look on his face, and 10 minutes of allotted time, tells you it’s bad, really bad, the worst type of bad… a few things happen. At least, in my experience, it goes something like this. Number 1 (oh here we go again, I’ve seen…
Pain and fevers and scans, oh my!
I finished off my last blog post, pushing through the immense amounts of pain in my head with gritted teeth, repeating ‘I have a future, I have a future, I have a future…’ Over a week spent in bed with some sort of illness that presented as a raging fever and a hell of a…
The Cancer Chronicles 