Cancer SUCKS

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  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    Indeed!
  • Alleluia!
  • GalilitGalilit Shipmate
    Super news!
  • Great news!
  • Popping open a virtual bottle of champagne!
  • DiomedesDiomedes Shipmate
    There'll be a special toast to you when we open our Friday night bottle of red. Great news!
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    Excellent, Ross.
  • MamacitaMamacita Shipmate
    Prayers of thanksgiving for the good news!
  • AmosAmos Shipmate
    Well! That IS good news. Bless you, Ross.
  • Thank you Ross for sharing the good news.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Thank YOU, everyone!
  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    Galilit, prayers ascending.

    Gratitude, Ross!

    Praying for all mentioned here.
  • GalilitGalilit Shipmate
    I am so fatigued and sad ... I went out for a walk (at 7.45am) and had to return after 200 metres because of Brother Sun setting off my photo-sensitivity. I feel like nothing I try to do helps and I have not the energy to implement any of my ideas to improve the situation.

  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    ((Galilit))
  • Prayers for @Galilit
  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    🕯 @Galilit
  • I'm so sorry.
  • MargaretMargaret Shipmate
    Galilit - candle burning...
  • So sorry Galilit - learn about bats? when my daughter had CFS/ME and was photosensitive as a teenager I started learning about bats, because it was something I could do at dusk or dark when she could cope with going out.

    Glad you're still battling on Rossweisse
  • Galilit, Praying for your energy to do things you enjoy.
  • GalilitGalilit Shipmate
    Oh how clever of you, CK, positively lateral thinking - we do have fruit bats (who will be coming to eat our ripening lychees in a few days) ... and also several owl species
  • GalilitGalilit Shipmate
    Thanks everyone - it will pass.
    Then I'll do it all again next month!
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    edited June 2020
    Bats are awesome. We get them in our garden in foie gras land. They have the added bonus of eating the mosquitoes which fly straight out of Satan's bottom.
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    Bats are adorable!
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    {{{ @Galilit }}} I like the idea of bat study!

    This morning I had to be at the hospital early for an MRI of my left thigh, in hopes that it would yield some clues concerning the horrible pains in my left leg. Then I went to the other hospital for spinal X-rays (why, I'm unsure, since I just had MRIs of that territory a couple of weeks ago) and waited an inordinate amount of time to be seen by a hotshot neurologist. (Now I get to wait some more for his conclusions.) Then I went home, and had my final session with the wonderful physical therapist who has done so much to get me moving again. It's been a rich full day!
  • GalilitGalilit Shipmate
    Thanks everyone -I feel much better today
  • Glad to hear some good news @Galilit and @Rossweisse. (Gallit, the bats sound fun, but please don't eat them. All sorts of problems can result. Ask Dr Karl Langstrom.)
  • GalilitGalilit Shipmate
    So...today I got my Doctor's clearance to continue my treatment for another 2 months. The 3 or 4 tumors on my front ribs have even got smaller! The cancer-markers in my blood are wayyy down too.
    I explained about the recent fatigue and suggested perhaps a few days of steroids might help. He said dryly that steroids "were not clinically indicated". So I said "Look, I really need some help here". He mentioned another drug and I said that I'd not heard much about it. "I just drink gin and tonic", I said. At which he laughed and said "Now that's a steroid I could approve!"
    So that's a step in the right direction ... no question!
    "Trebles all round!" as we Private Eye readers say
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    There's nothing yet from the hotshot neurologist. But I was warned today that the tumor that sits where my femur meets my hip has grown, and that there is serious danger of the femur fracturing. That would be extremely bad news, and probably life-shortening. It would definitely ruin my day.
  • Cheers for @Galilit and hugs for @Rossweisse.
  • Oh, dear Lord.
  • Virtual G&T for @Galilit; very gentle virtual hug for @Rossweisse, accompanied by curses and prayers 🤬 🙏🏼🕯
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    A virtual glass of Pinot Noir can, of course, count as a virtual analgesic. (I'm finishing off a glass even as I type.) But virtual hugs are a good thing, too!

  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    I’m sending plenty to you, @Rossweisse and to you, @Galilit
  • I'm drinking as much red wine on your behalf as I can, Ross - can you feel it? Fight the good fight - also the other one, if necessary.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Cheers, @Stercus Tauri!
  • GalilitGalilit Shipmate
    Cheers!
  • I've got a phone call I don't want to make. This afternoon a message was left on my answerphone, by one of my cousins. I don't know the chap, we could pass each other in the street and not recognise each other. But he made the effort to get to my mother's funeral in December, and he is family. Anyway, since then he's been diagnosed with the same type of cancer as me, and told it's terminal. The right thing to do is ring him back, but I really don't want to. And that makes me feel guilty.
  • @ Robert Armin, sometimes in life all we can do is take care of ourselves. That is not a thing to feel guilty around. It is doing the best that we can to make the most of what little energy we have. From the BCP. "This is another day, O Lord, I know not what it will bring forth, but make me ready, Lord, for whatever it may be." The last line is "And if I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly. " Not saying you should not ring our cousin back, but rather do not feel guilty about giving only what you feel you can.
  • Lily PadLily Pad Shipmate
    Feel guilty. Go buy something you normally wouldn't or go somewhere to visit that you really enjoy and make the phone call. You'll remember the good bit. You've got this. If you want me to call him for you, just let me know. Sorry that he's got it and sorry that you have to manage this. Could you send him a letter?
  • No advice, Robert Armin, but sometimes, like Jacob wrestling, we only have the physical and emotional energy to deal with one adversary - like cancer - at a time. You will know when you are ready to deal with this new one.
  • MamacitaMamacita Shipmate
    Prayers ascending for @Galilit @Rossweisse and @Robert Armin.
  • AmosAmos Shipmate
    Does a prayer have to travel further to reach God when it's coming from Hell? Surely not. Praying for Gallilit, Ross, Robert, and Robert's cousin. Also: grieving for the lovely, gentle parishioner who died this week: she was our one-woman altar guild for two big churches in two small villages, and many counted her their best friend. She loved Compline.
  • MamacitaMamacita Shipmate
    @Amos I am sorry for your, and your community's, loss. She sounds like a lovely, dedicated woman.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Oh, @Robert Armin, I am sorry. Prayers ascending.

    Prayers ascending for @Amos's parishioner, too. It sounds as though she will be greatly missed. May she rest in peace and rise in glory, and may her memory be a blessing.

    I'm just back from my second MRI of the week, as my docs - including the hotshot spinal surgeon - try to figure out what's causing the sporadic but exceedingly intense pains in my left foot, ankle, and leg. (Oh, and the toes have all gone completely numb.)

    I didn't know this technician, which is, at this point in my career at that hospital, unusual. She started out faux-cheery ("Have you ever had an MRI before? This is what to expect"), and looked impatient when I told her that I have a hard time with discomfort in that department's large, unpadded wheelchairs, because my pelvis is in pieces, and then when I tried to explain about the pain when my leg is moved.

    But I stayed friendly and cheerful. She seemed pleased at my ability to lie still for long periods of time - yes, I am a veteran! - and was very kind and thoughtful when I finally emerged from the machine, asking how she could best help me. Then she took the pillows that had been under my head and lower legs, and arranged them on the seat and back of the wheelchair. "You don't have very far to go," she said, "but we can make you more comfortable." Maybe it was because she'd just spent the last 70 minutes taking picture of said pelvis and better understood the problem. And being friendly and cheerful - and smiling, especially when my mask came off for the scans - never hurts.
  • Finally summoned up my courage and rang my cousin, only to get his answerphone. Ah well, I've made the effort. Maybe he'll get back to me tomorrow.
  • <votives> for Robert Armin and Rossweisse.

  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Bravo, @Robert Armin! I hope that the talk isn't too painful for you when it takes place.
  • cgichardcgichard Shipmate
    Bravo, @Rossweisse! 70 minutes of MRI is a feat to challenge the most austere of ascetics, and to accomplish it with the help of the Jesus Prayer deserves the highest possible praise. I do hope your latest endurance enables all those specialists to identify the cause of your pain and find a remedy for it. And in the process I'm sure you taught that over-cheery technician a few valuable lessons too.
  • As ever, very impressed with @Rossweisse. As a regular thing, I can consign to Hell people who are chatty when I want to be silent.
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