Blog of Random Thoughts
This morning we had a meeting with the oncologist and some other appointments. The traffic in the morning when school buses is running is crazy, a trip that can normally take 5 minutes can get extended an extra 10 or 15 minutes because kids are picked up two driveways apart. We arrived at the cancer…
Yesterday morning a friend of mine sent me a photo and I made the front page of the printed Sudbury Star which I think is hilarious that they put it there. I guess that it is a feel good story and it is for a good cause. I did not really see a huge spike…
This morning when I woke up I has thinking about everything that has happened this week and things that I wanted to write about. I wanted to write an update for the GoFundMe but I was not in a great place mentally. What really hit me this morning was I get why people give up…
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My vision on my laptop was improved significantly but there is a till a bit of fatigue when I am on it but it seems to be getting better the more that I use it. This morning with the nurses I have had interesting interactions. She orginally was going to enter my room but then…
Mel insisted that I go in on Monday and mentioned that I would agree to listen to her. She still thinks I am too stubborn. Realistically I only had dangerous dehydration and no immune system and low levels across the board. My score for white blood count was 0.2 yesterday and today it is 0.4…
Last night after we arrived in Toronto, Mel decided to make the executive decision to drive home. The van was no longer making any sounds and the thought of taking all of the suitcases up to either my sister’s place or a hotel did not appeal to her very much. At this point in time…
Being a PSW can be difficult I think. Mel has been doing this for me for the last couple of months and I think she is exceptional at it. I think that I am probably a bad patient in the sense that I tend to push myself a bit too much and then i crash…
I had to go for my CT scan this morning and then have my pump disconnected. Arriving at the hospital parking lot I had found a space but with the truck you need to back into the spaces and I could not figure out a method to actually get the truck in because there was…
It amuses me how easy it is to forget things about the chemo treatment. It has only been two weeks but yesterday so many things happened that I forgot some of the effects. I forgot that when I eat my whole mouth locks up and it is very difficult to swallow. I forgot that I…
The amount of support that we have received over the weekend has been surreal. Mel does not think that we deserve all of the love that we have received and she has made comments about how we need to pay this forward to everyone. I reminded her that people have wanted to help us out…