Chelsea Finnigan
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...
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Andy Schneider
Jan 30, 20221 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Jan 24, 20221 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Jan 20, 20223 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Jan 16, 20221 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Dec 27, 20213 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Dec 20, 20212 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Dec 12, 20213 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Nov 19, 20211 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Nov 12, 20211 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Nov 9, 20212 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Oct 5, 20211 min read
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....
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Chelsea Finnigan
Sep 13, 20212 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Aug 5, 20212 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Jun 16, 20212 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Jun 11, 20212 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Jun 7, 20211 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
Jun 3, 20212 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
May 28, 20212 min read
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...
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Chelsea Finnigan
May 26, 20212 min read
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...
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