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Mandi’s Story

Michael Hudson — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 23:30:06 +0000

Susan G. Komen featured a documentary of Mandi recently. I have a hard time watching it without breaking down in to tears, but it is a beautiful tribute to my wife. My biggest hope is that this video helps bring awareness to metastatic breast cancer as it is the reason she is not here with […]

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Live Forever

Michael Hudson — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 23:36:42 +0000

Mandi, you will live forever through me and all the people you have touched and inspired in your life. This is not the end, only the beginning of another chapter. I will never be the same without you, and will forever be the love of your life. You were my best friend, and I shared the […]

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Vacation in the keys. – Mandi’s last blog entry

Mandi — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:20:44 +0000

Booking a warm tropical vacation is difficult when you are trying to schedule around your husband’s work, appointments, weather, making sure I would have oxygen with me, just making it all work out has been a challenge. I managed to book a hotel and plane tickets last minute (my world of vacation rentals didn’t work […]

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What Happens When Your Lung Collapses?

Mandi — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 23:37:20 +0000

That is the question that has played itself over and over in my brain the past few days. Will it hurt? Will I die? Will I be O.K.? I know people live without a lung, I know it is possible, and I know my left lung is on its way out. When? I don’t dare […]

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Another Day Another Dollar

Mandi — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 05:31:48 +0000

Last week I saw all of my not-main-oncologist doctors. My Pulmonologist, my Palliative Care doctor and my team that does my intrathecal chemo. I was also getting my labs drawn so my oncologist could see what Neupogen was doing to my white blood cell count so we could plan on when and how to add […]

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Hiding Under a Rock

Mandi — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 01:38:51 +0000

I imagine there are a few people who have been wondering where I have been hiding (under a rock, the answer is under a rock). Utah is full of rocks, ahem mountains, and for the last bit I have just been adjusting to what my life looks like right now (new chemotherapy regimens, spending time with […]

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Buying More Time

Mandi — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 02:37:50 +0000

I left my last post a bit too open ended. I didn’t choose hospice. I just wasn’t mentally ready for a hospice discussion yet. Unfortunately I should have seen the discussion creeping up more and more as treatments have failed me more and more. My cancer is a bastard, it keeps getting smarter. Each time […]

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Hospice or Navelbine and Herceptin

Mandi — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 01:35:50 +0000

One of the things I never wanted to be tied to was an oxygen machine. Which I should slap myself as I was a young dumb teenager that thought smoking was cool once upon a time when I was a “hardcore rebel.” Nothing says “hardcore” and “rebel” like I am going to suck down this […]

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6 Years of The Beast

Mandi — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 00:02:42 +0000

I was diagnosed with breast cancer on the day before my 31st birthday in 2010. My five year cancerversary came and went last winter. I was so sick I hardly knew what was going on… because I was desperate to try Tykerb and Xeloda to kill my brain metastases, so desperate that I did not […]

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Braaaaiiiiiinnnnnnssss

Mandi — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 04:15:12 +0000

My MRI came back with new tumors in my brain. My brain, spine and breast oncologist was not happy about this as my last scan we had been able to say I had been stable for quite some time and then BOOM I was growing tumors. The new ones are primarily back in my intrathecal […]

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