11 February 2018

I am sooo exhausted, but it was actually Markus, who went out and I was in bed early 😉…. yet, I take it easy today after getting up with the kids! No need to be ill again and Karneval with all the crowds and everyone kissing each other, is the worst time of the year …

22 December 2017

11 degrees and rain…. not the kind of Christmas weather I asked for, but hey, Michelle is stopping in Cologne on her way from Amsterdam to Frankfurt this afternoon and I cannot wait to see her 😀 Markus is home with Mia and Anja can fill in for our household help Steffi in the afternoon …

21 December 2017

Chemo day…. Number 9 today! By now I know most of the patients and I chat with Sonja, who gets bi-weekly infusions due to an immune deficiency. Her friend has just been diagnosed with breastcancer and she heard about my blog. I hope it will help her! My other ‚follower‘, who has been diagnosed with …

27 September 2017

The wig is just ready in time – after tomorrow my hair will start falling out. To be honest – I feel so much more comfortable with my pixie cut…. oh well, this way I can always have longer hair again, when I feel like it in the future. I will have to go for …

20 September 2017

Fiffy time – we try some of the wigs, which were ordered for me. Artificial hair wigs have all different feels and colors – you can even get them with grown out roots or a few grey hairs in them 😉 They measure your head, try to match your hair, then they order a wig, …

13 September 2017

I speak to the Taxi company „TaxiRuf Köln“ in order to get everything ready for my free taxi rides – they are insisting that I see them at the other end of town and I can barely talk, as I have two screaming kids. I am frustrated and try to arrange everything…. thank god, she …

12 September 2017

The tiler is here early early and Leo gets all excited and meets him with helmet and all his tools, ready to assist. Bless! Off I go again to Holweide – bone scintigraphy! Oh joy, once again they inject some radioactive substance and I need to wait for three hours until they can check my …

4 September 2017

The rest of the pathologic results are there – the tumor is a little bit hormone receptive, which is good, but a little bit more would be better (ER-ICA almost 10%, PgR-ICA 5%, HER2-neu 0%) and the amount of cells, which divide themselves  arbeiten any time is 80% – WOW that is what I call …