Blog of Random Thoughts
16 years ago today, the best man of the day spent his speech poking fun of the approximate 74,208 hr age difference between Mel and myself. As my best friend he had intimate knowledge of myself growing up and he attributed milestones in my life and compared it to what he thought Mel was doing….
I should have remembered that treatment day when I have taken a lot of steroids that I am up all night long. I managed to sleep I think 2 hours and 34 minutes last night, but I am not super tired today. I also took some more steroids today and will slowly hopefully decrease my…
Last night it poured. I had some difficulty sleeping and was up repeatedly through the night. The difficulty was self inflicted as i had a lot of ideas running through my head and would occasionally document things and run through scenarios. I also wanted to make sure that Mel’s snores were real and not an…
What I struggle with the most is loss of control. When I have bad days like I did yesterday it bothers me because I struggle to overcome some of the setbacks. I like to be in control and can develop contingency plans for most, but when I do not have any, then I find it…
Sometimes things align perfectly and everything comes together all at once. That is today. I am having a bit of a rough day today, between the constant bowel movements, head aches, constant fatigue, tingling and numbness in the mouth, discomfort in my stomach and the neuropathy, I am struggling a bit today. Luckily this does…
My taste sensastions are starting to dull as I have a bit of tingling on my tongue. It is not super bad, but i can tell, using the rinse helps me out a lot. The other sensation that comes back is an uneasiness in the pit of my stomach. It feels different, if I push…
Last night I decided that I was only going to sleep 2 hours. It was such a fantastic idea! I went to bed and was up an hour later to go pee. I then tried to go back to bed but alas I could not. I had random thoughts popping in my head about absolutely…
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The drive to the hospital is short from our place taking approximately 7 minutes. Mel drops me off at the door and personally if I was by myself I would leave 45 minutes early at the bare minimum for my appointment. Mel is not a morning person and likes her sleep so we compromised and…
In case people are wondering, the titles for my posts sometimes come from songs that I happen to be listening to. This one is a random song that happens to be playing at the time and it is not really reflective of anything else. The patterns from chemo are starting to come back, but as…
I have not had any chemo for a while and there are a lot of things that I forgot about. The first one yesterday was the jaw lock when I first start eating, numbness and sensitivity to cold and worst of all, the incessant peeing on the first day of treatment. I think it is…