tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76165832887548020002024-02-19T08:25:26.002-05:00Death by LettuceIts a thyroid cancer blog looking to take over the worldrobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-14468712748596955672011-03-18T10:43:00.003-04:002011-04-02T16:39:06.340-04:00Closing Death by LettuceI am sure by now this is not a big surprise, as I haven't written any new entries in months. This is actually a good thing, means I have other things going on in my life besides cancer... which is awesome.
I have had a lot of e-mails lately from people wanting to post articles and things on my blog, I apologize for lack of responses... I have literally been crazy busy.
Why?
Because I'm movingrobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-3212936594198690002010-11-23T23:27:00.000-05:002010-11-23T23:27:00.752-05:00Losing your cancer virginityCancer is surprisingly like sex. We all have stories about our first time. There's even bases before you "score" so to speak. And I don't think ever getting another diagnosis of cancer is every quite the same as that first time.First base: Doctor finds a lumpSecond base: testsThird base: the phone callHome: the face to face diagnosisFirst base:Student health... I was there for my yearly. Therobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-61665956685845298382010-08-25T22:00:00.003-04:002010-08-25T22:20:03.484-04:00A friend lostI learned today that I lost a friend. We weren't close friends... we've had drinks together at parties... he was more of my friend's friend... people thought that we should be friends, and tried to get us to be friends because what we had in common was that we were both law school cancer survivors, and then young lawyers dealing with cancer. I think for this very reason we didn't actually robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-28900526272149838882010-07-15T22:09:00.002-04:002010-07-15T22:27:41.616-04:00"I'm not quite dead... I think I'll go for a walk now... I feel happy... I feel Happy!"Ok, so I went on a hiatus... a very long, hiatus. A very long hiatus that may or may not continue. But, quite frankly, I haven't had that much to write about. And seeing as I sit in front of a computer all day doing work, and not even fooling around on the internet... I lose motivation to write when I get home.So cancer related stuff:My Peace Corps application got put on hold b/c they wanted arobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-10248499395133647772010-05-12T20:14:00.007-04:002010-05-12T20:30:51.270-04:00Anytime Fitness Total Body ChallengeSo as you all may remember, my New Year's resolution this year was to put my life back where it was 5 years ago, namely by getting back to my pre-cancer weight. Now I've kept quiet about how all this as gone after this summer's weekly updates resulting in my embarrassment once I just stopped. But I've been doing the Body Challenge, and have in fact crushed my pre-cancer weight. My robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-49115168445397396342010-05-04T16:53:00.000-04:002010-05-04T16:53:00.193-04:00Dive for a CureI did something awesome this weekend (correction... this is more like a month ago now)... I did "Dive for a Cure"... Now, I know by this point everyone and their mother has some sort of race or marathon to raise money for this that and the other thing... this was soo much cooler. Dive for a Cure is Scuba diving to raise money for cancer research and things. Diver's are a special breed of peoplerobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-50145526592313899882010-04-30T07:12:00.003-04:002010-04-30T07:14:13.654-04:00Insurance VentThey've increased my insurance by $150 a month... It now costs me about $750 to be insured... and they don't even pay my meds.Sigh... the reality is, to get out of my house and be independent I'm going to have to quit the job I like and feel good about, and go sell my soul to the highest bidder w/ benefits. :(robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-8673066741608639762010-04-25T07:17:00.002-04:002010-04-25T07:20:28.072-04:00And a Drum Roll Please...I PASSED THE BAR!!!! I'm officially a lawyer now.On a related note, I also picked up a job. I'm now working at a small firm doing loan modifications and stopping foreclosures on homes. Pay sucks and there are no hours, but I couldn't have asked for a better group to work with, learn as much, and still feel good about myself at the end of the day.My life rocks my socks right now... hope it robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-11338242591242902272010-04-20T15:55:00.000-04:002010-04-20T15:55:00.691-04:00Dear Thyroid: ThyeulogyWay way way back in February when I found out I was cancer free, I wrote a new letter to Dear Thyroid, which I have called my Thyeulogy.They posted it back at the end of March, but it became one of the million things I never finished my blog post for. So just in case you haven't read it, here's the link: Thyeulogyrobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-53219449866466028032010-04-12T15:38:00.000-04:002010-04-12T15:38:22.013-04:00Yoga Bear and the Yoga ChallengeOver the past month I've written about half of 5 different blog posts. Many of which were time sensitive and I failed miserably at finishing and publishing them when I needed to. I've been busy running around, having a life, etc. All of which I hope to update you on over the next few posts. But first I'm going to start with yet another time sensitive one.Today I want to talk to you all about robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-63480229081153454462010-03-16T16:12:00.003-04:002010-03-16T16:25:00.680-04:00I NEED YOUR HELP!!!!Ok, I can't believe I'm doing this but I am pulling all of my social networking cred to ask everyone out there to spend 1 minute of their time to vote for me for a competition called Host Our Cost.Vote for me here--> Host Our CoastThe competition is this: spend the summer backpacking the Delmarva Peninsula Blogging about it. You get $15,000 and free room and board, and you have to go out and robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-34351371065678965402010-03-08T11:29:00.001-05:002010-03-08T11:29:00.505-05:00My Introduction to Cancer and RelationshipsSo, I’ve been looking over my posts over the last year or so (can’t believe I’ve been posting for over a year), and I’ve started to notice that I tend to only talk about my immediate reactions to what I’m dealing with at that moment. I am an emo blogger… a part of me just died. Granted, this is sort of the whole purpose of the blog: something to keep me from bottling up everything making me a robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-52901193696655901452010-03-04T13:56:00.002-05:002010-03-04T14:22:36.450-05:00The Price of Staying on Top of my Health$839I'm not going to get into a debate on the cost of health care here. I'm just going to make some very basic statements of fact about that number you are looking at up there. I am lucky; I pay an arm and a leg every month, and the occasional promise of a first born child to keep me insured. One month of health coverage costs more than one month of my last rent. And being that I'm lucky, robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-43134572015738323722010-03-01T12:40:00.000-05:002010-03-01T12:40:00.126-05:00Death by Lettuce BeginningsAnother quite ancient post that I found deep in the recesses of my hard drive. This is from August/Septemberish 2007 I think. A lot of this is probably gonna sound pretty familiar, particularly the last paragraph. But really, I wrote it all a year before I even thought of starting this blog. This was actually meant to be the start of my book that never quite panned out...
<!--[if gte mso 9]>robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-69063693810727692702010-02-26T14:36:00.000-05:002010-02-26T14:36:00.401-05:00Random Thyca Tip #1BaconAfter radiation when my taste buds went psycho, and I was convinced I would never taste food again... I could still taste bacon. I survived off of BLT'srobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-58615728130827110232010-02-22T12:37:00.002-05:002010-02-22T12:37:00.092-05:00Locks of LoveOk, so talk about my inability to follow through on something.That picture you are looking at up there, that's my hair. My long, gorgeous straight hair. In case you didn't already know, I have an overwhelming love hate relationship w/ my hair. Naturally, it is a fluffy curly mass. Its super thick, and super annoying. When it looks good, its my best feature. When its unhappy with me... well.robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-35995742711596318572010-02-16T11:53:00.002-05:002010-02-16T11:53:00.950-05:005 Year CancerversaryToday is my 5 year cancerversary.I can't believe I'm only 26, but have already had cancer for 5 years.February 16 also tends to be my least favorite day of the year... in fact over the past few years February in general has just been sort of a shit month. With lowered expectations for the month of February, I don't think you can imagine exactly how overwhelming the awesomeness of this February robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-66680738882998774152010-02-11T19:07:00.002-05:002010-02-11T19:11:26.012-05:00Holy Crap, I'm a Survivor!Blood work results are in. My meds are a tad too high, but everything else is undetectable.Combine that with nothing showed up on the ultrasound...In other words, its official.Just 5 days shy of my 5 year cancerversary...I am cancer free!robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-5428094157809992802010-02-10T12:21:00.002-05:002010-02-10T12:30:02.575-05:00Cancer v. NanobubblesSo I'm a big sci-fi dork, and find the idea of nanobots battling cancer full of cheesy sci-fi movie potential, while also being awesome. I do realize the article says nothing about nanobots, but rather nano particles... but for sci-fi purposes, it would be nanobots... But still, nanoparticles and lasers sound like something from a book. Particularly interesting is how they can target specific robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-12719074238572241662010-02-08T12:04:00.001-05:002010-02-09T11:47:17.451-05:00The Verdict on a New DoctorThings that are helpful... actually writing a post before I publish it...So, after weeks of anxiety, mental exercises, and kicking myself for not going to the doctor sooner, the day of the appointment came and went. I was planning on posting something about my anxiousness before now... but by the time to do it came around I had so much going through my head I frankly didn't care about the robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-59265731800381107762010-02-01T17:09:00.000-05:002010-02-01T17:09:00.192-05:00How do you move forward in life, if you can quite seem to move on from cancer?This is actually a post I wrote back in June. Though a little out of date, a lot of bits are still relevant, and I figured I should just go ahead and publish it for all to see.By now, you should have gotten the point that things for me are sort of in a rapid state of stagnation. I've finished with school, I've moved from Pittsburgh, I'm supposedly looking on to bigger and brighter things. robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-54483533463025358272010-01-28T11:14:00.002-05:002010-01-28T11:34:52.435-05:00And suddenly there was conversationSorry for the bombardment of posts... really, I had decided to pre-write a post a week until at least after the Bar was over so I didn't spend so much time doing it... only to start randomly have things happen, so now I've got like 6 weeks of pre written posts lined up, and still keep throwing things in the middle. But, yet another extraordinary thing has happened thanks to the Peace Corps robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-64896564637199193842010-01-26T11:56:00.003-05:002010-01-26T12:17:17.082-05:00Twighlight Zone: A positive experience navigating the health world....So, with the Peace Corps nomination comes the absolutely terrifying part... the medical evaluation.Today, I got to see everything I need done, not actually a bad list, and probably a lot of stuff people should have done every once in a while anyways. Yes it means a few extra doctor appointments and a few more needles than usual, but, and I think for the first time ever, I'm sort of excited to dorobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-73635794179986452692010-01-23T20:19:00.004-05:002010-01-23T20:36:37.302-05:00Doing what makes you happy.Today was a great day.I got to do the Hokey Pokey... not the dirty kind. Shame on you. Actually, every Saturday I get to do the Hokey Pokey. I've started teaching swim lessons with handicapped kids again. Its been a long time. It's taken me 3 weeks to become a person again. Going from lawyer to kid person takes a giant leap. The last time I worked w/ the kids is right after my first robshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616583288754802000.post-80170591518100588602010-01-19T12:46:00.000-05:002010-01-18T22:47:05.703-05:00robs v. HippaAs my first doctor's appointment with the local endo looms in the near future, I have taken on the daunting task of trying to get my medical records sent to him. I had originally asked for my records back when I was leaving, and trying to be helpful, the woman told me not to worry about it, sign a Hippa now, then just call and let them know where and to who they needed to be released to and theyrobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.com0