I’m baaaack!.........Yep! Sittin’ in the chemo room gettin’ the Goods!
Boy, I've sure missed this place…..being exposed to so much misery, getting stuck 5 times as the nurse struggles to find a vein, and OMG the food…..All the Lance crackers and trail mix you can eat!
This place is kinda like the battlefield……we’re all in the same fight but…..you tend to not get too close….because you really never know who won’t be here next time.
A lot of these folks are under heated blankets and as I’ve said…at least 4 have oxygen tanks. If I ever have to drag an oxygen tank into the chemo room I’m going to find out how long I have without it and plan a boat/road trip!
I did an entire post on the chemo room in March, 2010..."Yawn...It's That Time Again" then, as now, the main thing I get from being here is how much better off I am than most. I always remember that…on those rare days that I start feeling sorry for myself.
I’m very optimistic about this new chemo, Jevtana, it’s supposed to work better than the Taxotere but with less severe side effects….of course that’s what they said about the clinical trial drug too…..they sure coughed up a big hairball on that little factoid!
But I am optimistic that I can make up most of the ground I’ve lost. I asked the Doc what drug comes next if and when I quit responding to the new drug…..he had that deer in the headlights look and said “it’ll work”! ...I'm not going there.
OK, I’ve been fighting this devil for 11 years….a good bit of that time it was not front burner stuff but it was always there….ask anyone that has had the disease and Gloriously…..have survived…..they’ll tell you….it’s still always there!....lingering in the recess of your mind…..you’re only as safe as your last scan….”Scanxiety”
This post is titled #37 but I’ve actually posted 85 times, 86 counting today, just so ya know.
I have an acquaintance that is fighting a disease that is somewhat opposite “Lou Gehrig's disease"….it attacks any fast moving cell…and its different from Crohn's Disease. Until recently, this man has never been sick a day in his life…not even a cold. When the disease he has runs out of bad cells to attack it attacks the good cells and it’s killing him. Hey!......I’d buy some of his blood! or trade him some of mine, that would give his little ole cells plenty to do.
I’ve always said that I think cancer has a natural enemy… in the food chain everything has a natural predator (s).
Some good news! In my on going process of plugging up the hole in my mouth they did a biopsy of the bone and tissue and it came back negative. So as Bill Murray said, I’ve got that going for me!
After sinking, a ship’s Captain, its first mate and the Captain’s pretty & younger wife; washed up on the shore of an uninhabited, desert island. The mate took the first watch high in a coconut tree……When he got to the top of the tree he yelled down to the Captain and his wife “Hey you guys quit making love down there!” He yelled it several times and the Captain assured him they were not….as soon as the Captain took his turn in the tree the mate and the Captain’s wife fell into each other’s arms and the Captain said “ya know it does look like they’re making love down there” …….So it goes….
Thank you all for the continued support through thoughts, actions, Prayers and Spiritual energy. It’s fighting time again…so bring it on!
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