Resume chemo, that is. My blood numbers are pretty much in good ranges. The antibiotics worked very well. I visited the hospital last Wednesday (March 25) and got a CT scan too. We could not find the abscess at all. What was measurable on March 11 is now gone without a trace. Dang, I wish […]
Don’t worry, I’m feeling pretty good. I still need naps. I’m on a strong course of antibiotics and so far, no side effects. I had a blood test and a CT scan on Wednesday and the news was good on all counts. My white blood cell count is still too low but has significantly recovered […]
I was walking my laps’o’boredom around my floor at the hospital when one of my docs caught me and told me he had a good surprise, and he did. They were ready to send me home after they had the results of one more test that they suspected would come out negative (good). My goodness, […]
This is all trickle down effects of the chemo. I still don’t feel any cancer, which is fine with me. As far as we can tell the cancer is under enough control that we can afford to liberally spend our time on dealing with my infection, and it was effects from the infection that put […]
On Monday morning I got severe shivers and strong nausea. If you’ve been reading all these post you’ll know about the events I’ve called “sugar crashes”, and this was just like any of the others, I ate an orange to build up some sugar, and then nibbled on a fried egg and cheese sandwich to […]
Do I have your attention? I was at an all-hands meeting for work. One of the presentations was a review of a successful project that encouraged employee participation and hopefully taught them something along the way. During the presentation the product owner noted that the project was a Proof Of Concept, testing several things about […]
I got my latest chemo infusion on Thursday. So far I’ve got the side effects under control. Not only that but my CA19-9 marker is still dropping and with the Thursday CT scan, the tumor is still shrinking. We’re going to let this bet ride for a few more weeks ’till the next CT scan […]
Boeing and NASA are going to run a full code review on the “Starliner” after uncovering some terrifying embedded problems with the spacecraft’s operational code. Most people tend to think of code as some monolithic thing, put together by a sharp team whose embers know what each other is doing. Nothing could be further from […]
When nothing particularly bad happens, this is a reason to celebrate. I’m on my 3rd day after my infusion last Thursday and I haven’t been sick once. It’s the little things. I have felt tired, and have taken naps: Once on Friday, twice yesterday, and once today. Napping cut into my nausea a lot. If […]
Roller coasterrrrrrrrrrr! Got my 3rd infusion last Thursday. Usually I’ve had little or no problem with it on Friday, and this time it wasn’t much of a problem except I was exhausted and slept a lot. Then Saturday it was like I came down with the flu. Fever, chills, body screaming aches, no energy, happy […]