Blog of Random Thoughts
Last night I finally slept through the night without waking up because of pain. What was happening was I would wake up with mucous and start coughing and it would result in a burning sensation down my chest. Wonderful experience if you want to be awake all night. It would go away after 20-30 minutes…
On Sunday night, Melanie had trouble sleeping because of my blood pressure and she had nightmares about it. We made an appointment to talk to the nurse before my radiation appointment at the hospital, but we ran into my doctor in the hallway. He is awesome, and I am not sure if I get preferential…
I have not been feeling well for the last couple of weeks. I have received emails and texts asking if everything is ok since I have not written much for 13 days. I only have 6 more radiation treatments left. Last week it was my fake birthday, and my kids made sure to mention that…
Hi I have completed two weeks of radiation/oral chemo treatment now and have realized that this is much more difficult than I had anticipated. The combination of my treatments is tough. I need to take my oral medication on a full stomach at approximately 8am and 8pm each day. This requires me to eat in…
I had my radiation treatment and an appointment with the doctor today. The radiation appointment was at 10:30 while the doctor’s appointment was at 1. With the 3 hr spread I figured that I had enough time to go home and eat as I need to eat as much as I can. The appointment in…
Hello everyone This week I started my new round of treatment. It consists of radiation treatment every weekday for 25 days over 5 weeks and oral chemo treatment daily for the duration of the 5 weeks. So far it has been pretty smooth sailing. Talking to the nurses with both the regular symptoms are what…
I have been slacking a bit with updating the blog lately. I have been doing a lot of different reading. During some of the development sessions people have been recommending books or interpreting parts of books and my preference is to read the books so I can comment on it. A certain series came out…
We were suppose to go camping this weekend, but with the weather forecast and some of the minor issues with the trailer we opted not to go and we spent the time together as a family relaxing. Today we went to Sturgeon falls for some poutine, pick up some treats and strawberries. When I woke…
On Friday I had my appointments with both of my oncologists, one for chemo and one for radiation. My first meeting was with the chemo doctor and he had indicated that we are going to change up the treatment a bit for this next round. I had informed him that I had the PICC line…
I met with my oncologist this morning and he asked me if the surgeon had discussed anything with me in detail. Some of the news that was shared was he was quite concerned with the fact that there were 14/19 lymph nodes that showed cancer and little mention of shrinkage of cancer. The reason being…