🔥Telegram İfşa

I’ve been out for coffee two days in a row! So nice to get out of the house.

Great article from Double Whammy about a huge new multi-site $25M effort to stop metastasis in breast cancer. #teamwork #cancer fredhutch.org/en/news/center…

What a great story!

Having a great birthday! 🎂 It started with a visit from my friend Peabody, her husband, and their the NW Spaniel Squad. This is me forcing love on Josie.

things they don't tell you about cancer: 💣 the exhaustion will alter your life in major ways 💣 your body changes to a point that you barely recognize yourself 💣 the isolation gets lonely I can't do anything about 1 & 2 but I can help with 3. Join us facebook.com/groups/caregiv…

Had my vascular surgery this week, there was a complication and the accesses an artery by mistake, I ended up on the table over six hours. Will have no bad long term effects, thankfully, but I might have to have them go back in next month.

Sometimes this feels like the most meaningful piece of equipment in the whole hospital

Lots of changes lately. I’m doing TDM-1 again, two rounds down. Vascular surgery worked great, edema is almost resolved! 30lbs gone, that was a lot of fluid in the legs. But shows how thin I’m getting. I weigh less than i ever have as an adult. Trying to eat more, it’s difficult.

Fred Hutch physician-scientist Dr. Gary Lyman 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦💛💙 recently published a broad overview of common, acute #chemotherapy-associated adverse events and how to manage them. bit.ly/3DjS3yv

Got a UTI which turned into a superbug infection. In hospital 5 days, now been home a week doing IV antibiotics twice a day through my port. I’m so tired, all I do is sleep. In pain all of the time. Weight is in the 120’s now. Feel like I’m disappearing…

Needed four units of blood during the last hospital visit. Thank you again, blood donors!

Not the obituary I wanted to read today. cnn.com/2022/12/19/us/…

A final Karen Kasonic Tweets from her father John. While Karen bravely faced her metastatic breast cancer for 15 years, Karen lost her cancer fight on Saturday the 14th around 3pm. She was at our home and died peacefully. Karen was beloved by everyone who knew her.

Karen was always a giver of support for others with breast cancer. Karen and a friend, Rebecca Bryson, set up a fund at the University of Washington to support breast cancer. “The Kasonic Fund for HER2+ Breast Cancer” donations to this fund can be directed to the UW Foundation

One more tweet from John Kasonic (Karen’s dad). Karen’s obituary is in today’s Seattle Times. See link below obituaries.seattletimes.com/obituary/karen…