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Continue reading →: Two Holidays & 3 Birthdays
Thanksgiving at my parents’ house 2024. All the Cooper kids together. My 43rd birthday with my love. My 43rd birthday with. my family, minus. Ava in France. Ava turned 19 in France. She loved being there and will certainly go back. Brielle turned 14 on Dec. 21st. Love her so…
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Continue reading →: Bad News/Good News
Rocky helping me work from home a couple of weeks ago. I was just getting out of the shower when my phone alerted me that there was a new test result in my MyChart app. I quickly got dressed…well as quickly as you can with tubes coming out of your…
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Continue reading →: Like a Member of the Blue Man Group
After 7 hours in the OR Last Tuesday I checked in at the surgery desk at The Huntsman. Jeff and my parents came with me. I wish I could say the check-in experience and subsequent stay were like checking in at a fancy hotel but that was not the case.…
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Continue reading →: Tumors Be Gone
I’m having surgery this coming Tuesday. This previous week I had a procedure to place a SAVI in one of my breast tumors. It’s a small metal reflective seed that helps guide the surgeon under radiography to the tumors that need to be removed. So I went in for what…
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Continue reading →: Scans & A Departure
Even though I look like crap in this picture, it makes me smile because Benny is the biggest cuddle bug when Jeff is on the road. He brings me a lot of comfort even though he’s a stinky dog. I had a PET scan Monday morning and a breast MRI…
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Continue reading →: Pushing Through
I realize it’s been almost a month since I posted. Life has just been chugging along. We got Jeff’s truck fixed and back home. We miss our Nola like crazy. We’ve been taking Benny on a lot of walks and giving him lots of loves. Ava and Payton and I…
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Continue reading →: When it Rains
Well life. What can I say? Last Monday Nola, our four year old boxer was hit by a truck and passed away while she was traveling with my husband in Arizona. I sat in my car after work and facetimed with Jeff and Nola while the vet put her to…
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Continue reading →: Chemo Blues
I know I’m smiling here in all my bald glory, but life is just kind of rough right now. On this day I took the girls up to Silver Lake and walked around. We saw a moose. It was beautiful. I was exhausted. As I am every day now. I…
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Continue reading →: Great Divide
I am officially halfway through my chemotherapy treatments! I will get an ultrasound of my left breast and axilla area to evaluate how well the masses and lymph nodes have responded to the Adriamycin/Cytoxan regimen. Next Friday I’ll be switched to a different chemotherapy drug Taxol. Four more infusions and…
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Continue reading →: Exhausted but Grateful
This week has been very tough. Each treatment has taken my energy levels further down. Usually on the fifth day after treatment I start to feel somewhat back to normal. Not this week. My Brie has been giving me plenty of snuggles and keeps reassuring me that I am still…
“Our way is not soft grass; it’s a mountain path with a lot of rocks.
But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.” – Ruth Westheimer
EVERY LAST DROP
Hello,
I’m Denise
Welcome to Every Last Drop. A blog dedicated to navigating a stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis and beyond. I’m committed to living the rest of my life savoring all the good things. To read my now defunct blog entitled Mattress Wars please see link at bottom of page. There I blogged my way through raising little ones, divorce, and moving back to my hometown.
To read my now abandoned blog visit https://mattresswars.blogspot.com/
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