Blog of Random Thoughts
Today at 7:45 I drove into the hospital to get my bloodwork done along with my preassessment. I signed in at 8:05 and the proceeded to go to get my labwork done prior to the preassessment. I had paid for an hour and I until 8:58 to finish everything. Bloodwork was uneventful and I had…
This treatment is not going to be my favorite. I am going to spend treatment drugged up and falling asleep and sleeping through the afternoon when I return. The evenings are fine and then I am up all night because of the steroids. I ended up getting up and working a bit and doing some…
I had my first treatment with the new procedure today. The volunteer saw that the sign by my station had “new patient” so she came by and offered me one of the quilted blankets. The nurse I had today was not one that I have had before and we told her that this was just…
I am a bit surprised that my mother has not called me today and now that I think of it, we probably should have gone over to my parents for dinner but things were a bit hectic and we were not able to go. I am not sure what she would have made for me…
I am exhausted today. I am a bit surprised about how tired I am and it kind of hit me this afternoon at half time of the World Cup. We attended the celebration of life and I ended up standing for 2 hours as all of the tables were full and I did not know…
Today has been quite crazy as we prep for tomorrow. The morning started with a message from a friend that requested Xavier go help out at the new facility creating ice. Xavier was sleeping and I had meetings in the morning so I could not ask him yet. He of course said yes and went…
Xavier and Mel were making the bed last night and he remembered that when he was a kid, we used to play with his duplo that I would always take the chicken. His characters would have all sorts of crazy super powers and were basically unbeatable. My chicken had 1 power. Instant death if someone…
Yesterday I got the results from my CT scan and we met with the doctor this morning. The concensus is that we are unsure of everything and just know that I have cancer “somewhere”. The doctor is concerned about the neuropathy becoming permanent so he wants to switch early to a different treatment. Things seem…
This morning we decided to make smoked ribs on the smoker for preparation for tomorrow. I got up early to make sure that I was prepared for things and realized that I should be using briquettes instead of lump charcoal. We did not have any briquettes so I waited and went to the store at…
After 48 hours I am supposed to get my chemo bottle disconnected. The bottle it supposed to be drained in approximately 46 hours but it might drain faster because of different factors. I get the bottle somewhere between 10:30 and 11:30 generally so it should be disconnected around 8:30 to 9:30. I think that it…