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Tweets for the Week of 06-23-2014

By Eugie Foster | June 30, 2014 - 12:20 am |June 30, 2014 Twitter Digest

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• [Blog] Radiation Week 3: Eating and Drinking Issues http://t.co/D2nsfU9f69 16:46:42, 2014-06-23
• RT @diabolicalplots: Best Podcast Fiction #13: The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk by @eugiefoster http://t.co/RZjPCuZ3n8 @TheDrabblecast 16:35:10, 2014-06-24
• [Blog] Dancing with BCBS: An Exercise in Frustration and Futility http://t.co/Q3WHmQRBE2 11:56:34, 2014-06-25
• Discovered yesterday there are FIVE not three turtles in radiation dept vivarium. Also, they're red-eared sliders, same species as TMNT. ^_^ 09:25:36, 2014-06-26
• I'm having cake for lunch and I can barely taste it. #SoDepressing #CopingWithCancer 12:26:08, 2014-06-27
• RT @JMReynolds: Today's #recommendedreading is by @eugiefoster: http://t.co/IoTQSxI7Da 10:58:38, 2014-06-28

Tweets for the Week of 06-16-2014

By Eugie Foster | June 23, 2014 - 12:20 am |June 23, 2014 Twitter Digest

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• For the fifth time, the United States ranked last in a review of industrialized nation’s health care systems. So not surprised. 11:23:23, 2014-06-16
• Link to study –> http://t.co/rqMdxvq8pX 11:23:59, 2014-06-16
• [Blog] BCBS Appeals Process and Radiation Side Effects http://t.co/pm9kvnfIJ7 16:13:00, 2014-06-16
• RT @JMReynolds: You should buy this book by @eugiefoster: http://t.co/hdRO6OKczB 18:26:15, 2014-06-16
• Can barely taste anything but still condiment food from years of habit Then take bite/sip & think "Well, that was a waste" #CopingWithCancer 10:42:28, 2014-06-20

Tweets for the Week of 06-09-2014

By Eugie Foster | June 16, 2014 - 12:21 am |June 16, 2014 Twitter Digest

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• Very tired this morning. Somehow managed to put on, and am now wearing to work, mismatched shoes. Derp. 07:41:12, 2014-06-11
• [Blog] First Week of Radiation: No Superpowers, No Insurance Coverage, and Tumor Coming Back http://t.co/pYLdgGsCst 17:06:07, 2014-06-11
• RT @NathanBurgoine: @ConnerHabib "The Bunny of Vengeance and the Bear of Death," by @eugiefoster – Read a short story a day last year, that… 19:22:33, 2014-06-11
• RT @Cecily_Kane: I just bought "Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales" by @eugiefoster. It looks amazing. #amreading 14:45:05, 2014-06-12
• 😀 MT @Cecily_Kane: Daughter of Botu by @eugiefoster 1st fantasy w/ rabbits I've read since Watership Down. "Oh, El-hrairah!" <–I said this 17:38:53, 2014-06-12

Tweets for the Week of 06-02-2014

By Eugie Foster | June 9, 2014 - 12:19 am |June 9, 2014 Twitter Digest

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• First day back taking MARTA to work and of course, train broke. Have to take a bus from Medical Center to Lindburgh station. Gah! 08:03:18, 2014-06-03
• Aaand now we're being sent back to the train platform…#damnyouMARTA 08:10:45, 2014-06-03
• Finally safe and sound at work after bit of MARTA aggravation. Were I one to believe in omens and portents, this would count as a BAD one. 08:55:30, 2014-06-03
• [Blog] Radiation Mask Fitting; Treatments to Start This Week http://t.co/aMiF3cFgum 17:30:30, 2014-06-03
• At Winship for 1st radiation treatment. They have a nice vivarium in radiology waiting room with turtles and cichlids. 🙂 #CopingWithCancer 12:21:19, 2014-06-05
• Insurance company doesn't want to cover my radiation treatment. This is exactly sort of stress, aggravation, & worry we *don't* need. (>.<) 20:27:55, 2014-06-06

Tweets for the Week of 05-26-2014

By Eugie Foster | June 2, 2014 - 12:20 am |June 2, 2014 Twitter Digest

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• [Blog] PET scan results in: Still Not Dead. Kill it With FIRE http://t.co/vkSuSRrD4Q 18:25:48, 2014-05-28

Tweets for the Week of 05-19-2014

By Eugie Foster | May 26, 2014 - 12:19 am |May 26, 2014 Twitter Digest

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• I just sold short story "When It Ends, He Catches Her" to @DailySF! Woot! 😀 06:52:51, 2014-05-20
• In the Emory hemapheresis center with @MatthewMFoster. Hooked up to blood centrifuge. We're harvesting stem cells! Finally #CopingWithCancer 08:13:54, 2014-05-20
• Second day of stem cell harvest achievement unlocked. But I also need another transfusion of both platelets and blood. >.< #CopingWithCancer 13:53:03, 2014-05-21
• Feels like we've been at Emory all week…oh, wait, because we HAVE. Waiting for labs followed by PET scan. Waiting is. #CopingWithCancer 08:10:08, 2014-05-22
• RT @apexmag: Clavis Aurea #6 posted! Short fic reviews by @CharlotteAshley of @eugiefoster, @ThoraiyaDyer and Ruthanna Emrys: http://t.co/o… 12:06:01, 2014-05-22

Tweets for the Week of 05-12-2014

By Eugie Foster | May 19, 2014 - 12:21 am |May 19, 2014 Twitter Digest

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• Back at Winship with @MatthewMFoster. I need another platelet transfusion. Bleh. #CopingWithCancer 09:16:05, 2014-05-13
• At Emory hemapheresis center with @MatthewMFoster for day 1 of stem cell harvest. #CopingWithCancer 07:14:53, 2014-05-15
• My white blood counts are too low to harvest stem cells today. Sigh. #CopingWithCancer 08:46:09, 2014-05-15
• RT @CharlotteAshley: Started @BundoranPress's Strange Bedfellows today (off schedule – oops). @eugiefoster's story hit hard! 0_0 This is go… 05:53:42, 2014-05-16
• Back at Emory apheresis with @MatthewMFoster. White counts still too low for stem cell harvest plus I need another platelet transfusion. >.< 10:22:20, 2014-05-16
• Good news: I don't need another transfusion. Bad news: White counts still too low to do stem cell harvest. Maybe tomorrow. #CopingWithCancer 10:01:42, 2014-05-18

Tweets for the Week of 05-05-2014

By Eugie Foster | May 12, 2014 - 12:20 am |May 12, 2014 Twitter Digest

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• Waiting for @MatthewMFoster to pull car around. About to be discharged from the hospital. Yay! #CopingWithCancer 13:58:14, 2014-05-05
• [Blog] More Trifusion Catheter Fun (or "How 'n heck do I shower with this thing??") and Neupogen Self-injections http://t.co/hcNS3oofmt 17:05:13, 2014-05-06
• Achievement unlocked: successfully self-injected Neupogen this morning! Whew. Also, owie. #CopingWithCancer 07:20:43, 2014-05-07

Tweets for the Week of 04-28-2014

By Eugie Foster | May 5, 2014 - 12:19 am |May 5, 2014 Twitter Digest

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• Received today: contrib copies of May/June 2014 issue of CRICKET with my story "The Tiger Fortune Princess." Woot! http://t.co/RQqMNRrw7A 12:36:52, 2014-04-28
• At Emory for a full day of pre-stem cell transplant testing and orientation: echo cardiogram, EKG, pulmonary function. #CopingWithCancer 12:15:42, 2014-04-29
• Another full day at Emory: Radiologist and transplant coordinator consult, labwork, and trifusion catheter installation. #CopingWithCancer 08:34:38, 2014-05-01
• [Blog] Pre-Stem Cell Transplant Procedures, Anxiety, and Dread http://t.co/ctbH0WDuuM 17:42:55, 2014-05-01
• [Blog] Trifusion Catheter: Twilight Anesthesia Weirdness, "Ow," and Some Practical Considerations http://t.co/4L786lroMA 17:05:07, 2014-05-02
• [Blog] In the Hospital for Round 2 of R-ICE Chemo http://t.co/gNyYmcko8s 09:20:26, 2014-05-03
• Just met with my oncologist. I'm only having to undergo two rounds of R-ICE chemo instead of three! Bazillion hurrays! #CopingWithCancer 11:34:20, 2014-05-03
• RT @ShvetaThakrar: RETURNING MY SISTER'S FACE: AND OTHER FAR EASTERN TALES OF WHIMSY AND MALICE by @eugiefoster #WeNeedDiverseBooks #Divers… 21:34:17, 2014-05-03
• Day 3 in the hospital for chemo. On 24-hour infusion of Ifosfamide (the "I" in R-ICE). Doing a-ok but so very, VERY bored. #CopingWithCancer 11:37:15, 2014-05-04

Tweets for the Week of 04-21-2014

By Eugie Foster | April 28, 2014 - 12:20 am |April 28, 2014 Twitter Digest

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• Hoped to go back to work today, but labs showed I'm extremely neutropenic and need a transfusion. Sigh. #CopingWithCancer 08:51:44, 2014-04-21
• Simply not going to be easy. Having an allergic reaction to transfusion. Just gave me IV Benadryl. Am really loopy now #CopingWithCancer 13:16:25, 2014-04-21
• The phlebotomist pulled 13 vials of blood for pretesting for my stem cell transplant. THIRTEEN. Woozy anemia paradox. #CopingWithCancer 11:06:56, 2014-04-23
• Yay! I don't need another transfusion! But my white counts are still critically low, so still can't go back to work. Sigh #CopingWithCancer 12:54:46, 2014-04-23
• So I need another platelet transfusion. >.< At least my white counts, while still low, are going up. #CopingWithCancer 09:22:49, 2014-04-25