Blog of Random Thoughts
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…
It always amuses me how many people read my blog, Mel’s coworkers read it and see insights into her life through my eyes, or friends of her get to experience the daily nuances of our life. Last night I found out that Mel was the one that invited my parents to our house. They had…
Last night we had some friends come over for a quick visit. Over the last couple of months we have had people bring various religious books to our place. A friend of mine asked if I would read the Quran and I said I would read whatever people brought me. Yesterday I got the NIV…
Yesterday for Mother’s day i spent a large portion of the day cooking things for breakfast and for dinner. Everyone loved it, but I was quite tired and struggled to clean up afterwards. My core pans I tend to wash myself as Mel is not a fan of washing my cast iron or my carbon…
Last night I was quite tired. I got up at 1:30am for my boost drink, but I was so tired that I barely managed to drink it before I went back to bed. Normally when I get up I need to go to the washroom, but this time I just woke up and was exhausted…
This afternoon I was inundated with calls from the hospital scheduling things. I was a bit concerned because the first call I received was for my Chemotherapy appointment being moved to Wednesday. This can only happen if I have my port removed and another one put in and a PICC line inserted. A couple of…
Today was quite the interesting day. I was supposed to have chemotherapy today and I had an appointment withe supportive care team prior. Talking with the doctor there he has scheduled an ultrasound next week to see how much fluid build up I have to see if it makes sense for me to get drained…
We finally met with the doctors from Spain today and it was quite the conversation with that team. The conversation started off that they were worried about me and that they were concerned about how much I decreased after I left the hospital. We had a discussion on why it might have occured and Mel…
I am tired. Mel mentioned that yesterday was my first day off steroids that I have been on for 3 weeks. The impact of getting off the steroids is to be expected I think, and now that I know what the trigger is for all of the fatigue it is not too bad. Mel also…