Sips, Snacks, and Healthy Hacks-A Nurse’s Blog
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It’s important for anyone going through treatment, but it’s important for the rest of us, too. People at higher risk for being more sensitive to poor air quality days include the elderly, those with asthma, COPD, or other lung disease, cancer survivors, and anyone with heart disease. Poor air quality can come from things like…
Poor Air Quality? Here’s 10 Ways to Cope
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I like to think of myself as a life learner. Nevermind the fact that I’m still in school! School work doesn’t necessarily equate learning, anyway. Some of my favorite learning moments have actually been while homeschooling my kids. By finding new things to share with them, we learned together. I found subjects like history much…
Life Learner
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I would love a sequel to Wormwood. I mean Woodworm. Or, perhaps, a prequel? Maybe both! I keep wanting to call the book wormwood. I used to have a lot of wormwood plants in my yard. It was a very pretty plant: Woodworm by Layla Martinez was one of my favorite reads so far this…
Sequels…
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It’s a question I hear pretty often. “What if I react to my infusion?” Whether it’s an iron infusion, a chemotherapy infusion, or one of the other infusions we give, it’s a valid question. What happens next? Here’s a brief overview of what your nurse will do if you react to your infusion: There are…
Infusion Center Questions: “What If I React?”
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I love tracking my steps. Imagine my disappointment when, earlier this year, I couldn’t seem to use my fitbit anymore with my android. I have had a handful of trackers over the years, some old-school, a few fitbits, and one generic watch/step tracker that lasted a couple months. I finally got a garmin earlier this…
5000+
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Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are transforming oncology treatment for breast cancer patients (and other patients, too! They can be used in different cancer treatment regimens.) ADCs are founded in the concept of a “magic bullet,” which was developed by Paul Ehrlich, the founder of chemotherapy treatment. Paul Ehrlich’s work was done over 100 years ago- he…
“Smart Chemo”/Antibody Drug Conjugates and Breast Cancer
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***spoilers*** Have you seen Backrooms? In this movie, the main character finds his way into a labyrinth of warehouse-type rooms that don’t seem quite right. They keep going and going. And going. The deeper he goes, the weirder things seem to get. There are heavy footsteps that he hears initially… and eventually, he is trapped,…
Life. Changing.
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I have been on a horror book binge this summer (well, this year in general). Most recently, I read Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. Written in 1967, the book takes place on Valentine’s Day in the year 1900 at a girl’s boarding school in Australia. A group of girls venture out- supervised, of…
Unhappy Endings
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If I had give someone my top tip to success it would be this: Don’t give up. Don’t give up on yourself. If something is in your heart to do, then you gotta do it. Whether that’s going back to school, writing that blog post, baking a cake or whatever. But we have to let…
S-U-CC-E-SS
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It’s almost the end of another busy work week. One where things go as originally planned (on this end anyway!), but still seem to be working out all the same. Nurses seem to always be in short supply and this week was no exception. Still- the week is almost over. It’s time to start thinking…
Winding Down and the Weekend (or, Time to Go to the Flea Market)
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