I think the name of this blog should be The Pink Safari?

After 2 years of living with the very doable "bone only" metastatic breast cancer DX. (diagnosis) I have joined the ranks of those inflicted with the much more scary "ORGAN METASTASES". I will now look back on years 1 and 2 of the Pink Safari, as a gift. I do, however, have a great new oncologist, one Dr. L. Emens at Johns Hopkins. She looked at my latest scans, liver tumors, new and better bone tumors, and even tumors in a place I did not know humans had... The Omentum, and said with a big smile, "we can shrink these things and put you back on hormonal drugs and you can PARTICIPATE in my Vaccine trial". (The reason I met her in the first place was to participate in her trial.) So, per her advise, I have started my first chemo drug... an oral form of chemo that is actually supposed to pack quite a punch. It has several SEs, (side effects) the most serious, Hand and Foot Syndrome. A lovely affliction that can leave you with cracked and bleeding hands and feet. This nastiness can be controlled by ice baths and many slatherings of Bag Balm. I take this disease very seriously and apply BB all day to my hands and feet. Because we own a super shedding dog, and I am not into house cleaning, I am beginning to look like a hobbit with dirty, fuzzy feet and hands. (I already resembled a hobbit in stature.) A small price to pay to keep my hands and feet healthy, albeit a bit on the gross side.