I’m writing this at 1 am. I went to bed at 7 pm. Now my back hurts enough to keep me from sleeping yet again. I think this has been going on in some way since January. I can’t recall a full night’s uninterrupted sleep since then. I had been thinking it was only due […]
I broke myself on this house. We’ve been working so hard moving and getting this house into a place where we feel like it is truly ours. I’ve been lifting way too many things and turns out that even when I’ve been taking care to lift with my legs I’ve managed to over work all […]
I just had my latest blood tests, a CT Scan, a consult with my Liver Doc, and my Oncologist. It was all good news. Liver: The fat spot is just that, a spot. Not something to ignore but no scarring. My Liver Doc called it a “stage 0” Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). I’ll just keep living […]
I just came back from talking with my oncologist. The biopsy did not find any cancer. There’s a small chance that the biopsy missed the tumor but those odds are very very small since they had no problem imaging it during the biopsy. What did they find? The found a fat deposit. That is not […]
And it will take 3-4 days to get an answer back. Just wanted to let you know that it’s done. It was a really easy procedure, the least difficult of all the other excursions made into my body over the last couple of years. They gave me a lightweight dose of happy juice and lidocaine […]
I just got back from a blood test, a CT scan and a consultation with my oncologist. My CA19-9 is down quite a bit but the CT scan shows a spot on my liver that wasn’t there in previous scans. I asked whether it could be something associated with the abscess I had on the […]
It’s been a week and 2 days since I completed my “Virginia Mason Protocol” with radiation and chemo combined. Yesterday was the first day since starting that protocol that I did not get sick first thing after waking up in the morning. I also could get through the day without using any anti-nausea meds. It […]
I have completed the Virginia Mason Pancreatic Cancer protocol. And not a moment too soon. I could scarcely stand up in the shower I was so dazed this morning. The last bag of Cisplatin last Monday. NO MORE!!! They removed the 5FU pump that I was carrying around attached to me for the past 5.5 […]
This has simply been the hardest, harshest treatment I’ve received so far in the past 2 years. I can list all the details but doing so just makes me sick again. Being ill is my #1 beef. Each week starts with what we’re now calling a “Monster Monday” with Cisplatin, radiation, interferon, and a top-off […]
I had my 2nd radiation Oncology appointment this morning. This time it was to take a CT scan to identify the places they will use to aim the high energy x-rays. I have sharpie maker targets just below my sternum, and on each side about half way between my hip & my armpit. I go […]
