Now that I am going to be keeping up on my RSS feeds I’ll be up on the important stuff. I can’t even imagine what it is like to be going through what John is. The fact that I haven’t set foot in a hospital or in front of a doctor in a good ten years doesn’t help. (I’m not counting the time I spent working for the hospital in Pittsburgh… That was so unpleasant that it only makes things worse.)
John’s latest update is still tinged with his wry humor and thats good.
Do I start with the headaches that are churning my brain intoapplesauce? Do I start with the fever I’m chillin’ with? Do I startwith the Rays: a source of great joy and greater sadness in oneevening? Do I start with the allergic reaction to an antibiotic, whichhas turned my clothing into an “aggressive interrogation” device? Do Istart with the nurse who said I couldn’t get my own snack from thefridge (bought and paid for with a friend’s money), then took threehours to deliver the goods – despite semi-hourly reminders? Do I startwith the ache that travels up and down the long bones of my skeleton,caused by drug induced, hyperactive marrow in the middle?
Followed by some better news:
Even in this, there’s a silver lining. One of my team of doctors tellsme that the low white cell counts following the chemo, combined withthe slow comeback, suggest that more of the cancerous cells were killed- which makes full remission more likely, and follow-up treatment(shudder) less.
So, hes just keep on keepin’ on…
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