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I’m Kate. If you’ve wandered in here, you probably know me personally. I am 49 years old. On August 17, 2023, I was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Stage…
I’ll just admit that I didn’t want the previous post to be the last post. I wanted to keep some sort of thread going, a tether to the turbulent and…
Kate Shuster passed away this morning, a few days shy of her 50th birthday. We are crushed by this development, despite its inevitability since the diagnosis back in August. She…
Those of us who know us well are aware that one of the ways that Kate and I flirted with each other when we got together was that we had…
Look, before your heart takes an express elevator into your stomach, this isn’t that post. But it’s not a good update either. Kate has been having a hard time, especially…
Hello out there from Montgomery, where the heat index sits above 100 in the middle of the afternoon. Thank goodness for air conditioning. We returned Thursday night from an absolutely…
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We went to see the oncologist this morning for the results of the scans I had on Tuesday. The news is bad. The new chemo has not worked, and the…
I am losing feeling in my fingers and toes. This is called neuropathy. My chemotherapies cause neuropathy, whose impacts compound over time. This loss of feeling is, generally, not reversible.…
Sorry for the delay in posting. Something longer coming your way tomorrow. In the meantime, good news. Since I last posted here, I have had two rounds of chemo- one…
This week my eager little platelets had done so well that I was ready for chemo again – at least on paper. I’m not sure anyone ever has their mind…
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Kate has Cancer 