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It's Been a Slice
I wrote this for Andy to publish after I die so if you're reading this I guess I'm coming at you as a ghost. I wanted to write something...
Chelsea Finnigan
Feb 1, 20221 min read
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16 comments
Checked Into the Hospital
Hey, Andy here writing for Chelsea: I checked into the hospital last night (Jan 29) because I was experiencing a lot of pain due to...
Andy Schneider
Jan 30, 20221 min read
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21 comments
MAID Update
As promised here is a post letting everyone know that I was able to schedule my MAID appointment for 02/02/2022. I feel a great amount of...
Chelsea Finnigan
Jan 24, 20221 min read
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24 comments


Medical Assistance in Dying
Trigger Warning: Chelsea Dying Hello, the time has come for me to once again invade your mental space with my struggles, troubles, and...
Chelsea Finnigan
Jan 20, 20223 min read
2,421 views
14 comments


Rose Tattoos
I guess more than a month ago now a bunch of friends and family and I went to all go get matching rose tattoos. I've been meaning to do a...
Chelsea Finnigan
Jan 16, 20221 min read
550 views
7 comments


A Tough Decision
This post is going to be a lot heavier than the stuff I usually write, so if you don't have the mental space to read it right now, or...
Chelsea Finnigan
Dec 27, 20213 min read
829 views
24 comments


Mental Health Update - My Experience With Ketamine
As you can probably imagine, getting the news that you have 2-3 months left to live can take quite the toll on your mental health. It...
Chelsea Finnigan
Dec 20, 20212 min read
545 views
12 comments


Trip to Saskatoon and Niagara Falls
After receiving my prognosis my very generous good friends slash brother and sister-in-law Laura and Evan offered to send my husband and...
Chelsea Finnigan
Dec 12, 20213 min read
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2 comments


Asking for Help
I've always struggled to ask for help, preferring to power through and manage things myself so it was a real blessing when my friends...
Chelsea Finnigan
Nov 19, 20211 min read
2,369 views
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It Was Bad News
I don't know how to come on here and say this and I'm really sorry if this is the way you have to find out but I saw my Doctor today...
Chelsea Finnigan
Nov 12, 20211 min read
2,300 views
23 comments


I'm Getting Worse
Over the past couple of weeks my symptoms have taken a turn for the worse. I'm writing this from my phone using voice to text because my...
Chelsea Finnigan
Nov 9, 20212 min read
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12 comments


We Built a Greenhouse
This summer we spent a lot of evenings and weekends building a greenhouse! (Buy we I mean Andy built it while I supervised and recovered....
Chelsea Finnigan
Oct 5, 20211 min read
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9 comments


A Bad Time with Chemo
For this phase of my treatment, I'm taking five days of Temozolomide Chemotherapy every 28 days. My first cycle, I took from August...
Chelsea Finnigan
Sep 13, 20212 min read
287 views
8 comments


Good News Again!
Yesterday, August 4th, I had my first MRI since I began treatment! I wasn't very optimistic going into it, because the doctors told me...
Chelsea Finnigan
Aug 5, 20212 min read
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14 comments


Whoops...Not THOSE Kinds of Gains
I'm very proud of myself because over the course of my entire treatment, I only missed two workouts and on those days I still did 50 calf...
Chelsea Finnigan
Jun 16, 20212 min read
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Bell of Hope and the Road to Recovery
I finished my last radiation session today and my last day of taking chemo every day for 7 weeks! It feels so good to be done with this...
Chelsea Finnigan
Jun 11, 20212 min read
1,183 views
12 comments


The Radiation Machine Broke
I'm very upset as I write this because one of Tom Baker's 6 Radiation Machines broke down today, meaning a whole extra day has been added...
Chelsea Finnigan
Jun 7, 20211 min read
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3 comments


Mental Health
I've always been a huge advocate for treating your mental health with as much importance as you treat your physical health, so I thought...
Chelsea Finnigan
Jun 3, 20212 min read
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An Alternate Timeline
If I had never been encouraged to go to the hospital by Vanessa when I started experiencing right-side numbness at the beginning of...
Chelsea Finnigan
May 28, 20212 min read
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4 comments


Two-thirds of the way!
I don't have any major news or hilarious stories to tell this time, but I wanted to pop on and let everyone know how I'm doing! As of...
Chelsea Finnigan
May 26, 20212 min read
167 views
9 comments
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