Road to Cancer- July to September 2005!
This was a hard time. I spent part of the time taking a class in web on line. Part of it taking a commercial class on Saturdays, and part of it talking to doctors about what I needed to do. I went through 2 doctors and allot of phone calls to others in this time. By September 1st I made my decision.
07/01/05 The Unexplained 8 hours
07/11/05 Spectator “Stick it” 11 hours
07/12/05 Stick it 12.4 hours
07/13/04 24 Interview 2 hours I almost cancelled this gig. At first I told them I can’t I am sick. Then I called them back and confessed to the casting agent’s vioce mail. I have cancer and I am scared I will mess up continuity and I have to have surgery. Casting called me back and to this day I remember her words, but I can’t remember her name. “You are so cute. You are going to the fitting.” Though when I think about it I think I had the interview and then that conversation.
07/14/05 Stick it 11.3 hours
07/15/05 Stick it 12.5 hours
07/18/05 Stick it 12.9 hours
07/19/05 Stick it 12.5 hours
07/20/05 Stick it 11.5 hours
07/21/05 Reporter 24 Fitting 2 hours Mark Gerschwin and the other PAs on stick it actually let me come late from the fitting, though I think I was only like 15 minutes or something crazy like that. though this background artist named Janeta Houk when she first found out I had cancer made some comments about how it would be easy because her friends had boob jobs. I had to bring my pathology report in to shove it in her face. I was crying in the bathroom on this, which was fine. I was just a spectator, and when I cry my eyes don’t get puffy. I had an actress tell me that amazed her. Id cry for hours but no ill effect on my face, just allot of wet. I threw a paper towel at her. She thought I was crying over a guy, though I honestly don’t know what guy at that time she thought I was crying over. I told her “hello- what part of I have cancer don’t you get.” She made trouble for me on Las Vegas, seemed to know the photographer on a Vogue stand in gig I did for Desperate Housewives and he kept acting like he did not want me there, and when we worked 24 once together by accident because someone made a mistake and I was not really booked for that day, she kept giving me looks like I was responsible for something bad happening to her. I don’t get women who blame other women for the decisions of other people. I just submitted for work and it was not my fault when she did not get something she felt she deserved over me. I just wanted to do a good job. Later she told people I used my cancer to get work, but 24 did not know until one day I fainted on set and they then all found out. Wardobe knew and told me I did not have to tell anyone, but they had to know because I knew I might physically change so they needed to make sure I wore something appropriate so they fit me in my own suit so I would not have to even change with everyone else.
07/21/05 Stick it 11.4 hours
07/22/05 Stick it 12.3 hours
07/25/05 Stick it 10.8 hours
07/26/05 Santos Supporter West Wing 10.8 hours
07/28/05 24 10.7 hours
07/29/05 24 10.7 hours
08/01/05 Commercial 12 hours
08/02/05 Commercial 12 hours
08/03/05 Different Commercial 10.4 hours
08/04/05 Sleeper Cell 8 hours
08/05/05 Walkout 8 hours
08/10/05 Family “Head case” 13.5 hours
08/12/05 Reporter 24 9.8 hours
08/17/05 Kitchen Confidential 12.8 hours (they made me a regular)
08/18/05 Commercial 8 hours
08/22/05 Sleeper Cell 12.5 hours I went and said goodbye today. I never said to anyone about the cancer. I remember a PA commented that I thought I was not coming back. I did. I thought at this point I might die.
08/23/05 Secret Service CIC (Commander in Chief)
08/24/05 TV Set 14 hours
08/25/05 Pedestrian with car Mission Impossible 3 13 hours
08/27/05 Untitled Adam Rifkin Project 8 hours
08/29/05 Commercial 8 hours
08/31/05 Kitchen Confidential 8.2 hours (DAY BEFORE MY MASTECTOMY SCEDULED FOR 5:30 in the AM) I remember the AD was raising money for breast cancer and I walked up to her and she asked me if I could give. I said “Not at this time, but thank you.” I think she said your welcome or why. I remember I said “You don’t understand. I’m having a Mastectomy Tomorrow. Thank you.”
09/19/05 Wedding guest “Click” Fitting 2 hours
09/20/05 Pedestrian CSI:NY:Season 2 12 hours
09/21/05 Lab Tech Bones 8 hours
09/22/05 Lab Tech Bones 9.2 hours
09/22/05 Nurse Grey’s Anatomy 8 hours
09/27/05 UNI Secret Service West Wing 10.4 hours
09/28/05 Restaurant Patron Spy on Myself 8 hours
09/29/05 Wedding Guest Click 11.5 hours

