My Daddy-O is having CT and PET scans on Friday to determine if the large, fast growing melanoma we recently found has spread.
Dad had his surgery the following Friday (tomorrow will be a week since) and has been healing well. The pathology report the doctor gave me this morning was great! They got all the cancer, and the lymph nodes they took had no cancer!
Thank you to all who have prayed and sent healing thoughts for Dad!
Great news @jedijudy . Hopefully equally good news is that my brother has a date in mid December for an operation to try and sort out the mess from the first one in April. Until then he'll still be in hospital being fed through a line. He's remarkably cheerful all things considered. The operation is scheduled for his birthday, let's hope it is the best birthday present ever and gets him on the road to recovery.
It's a total management project ... if I let one thing slide 2 days in a row ...go I'm sunk!
I forgot my special herbal tea 3 days in a row: Day 1 couldn't be a*sed, Day 2 ditto and by Day 3 had forgotten all about it and was waking up feeling completely nihilistic. I'd recite a Litany of Negativity for half and hour before rising at 7 am (late for me)
Back to it (the tea) now tho and wake up feeling like it's actually worth waking up
Still, I had 22 years before it got quite so critical (for longer than a year at a time, I mean). It was an illness ... I went throught treatments, got over it and thought "That's that then. Beaten you, you bastard!"
Now it's a whole lifestyle ...
It's a total management project ... ... I went through treatments, got over it and thought "That's that then. Beaten you, you bastard!"
Now it's a whole lifestyle ...
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996, had a recurrence in 2009-10, and was diagnosed with bone metastases in April (?) 2018 ... but it's just in the last 18 months I would say it has become a lifestyle rather than a disease. It's been non-progressive for the past year and a bit (after a massive regression in the first 4 months or so of targeted chemo ) ... so on we go.
I was first shown the honey badger video last year by a friend who had cancer and had watched it so many times he was saying, "Honey badger don't give a shit," in the most inappropriate places -- making us all laugh inappropriately.
Maybe it should be the cancer mascot, just doing his thing, shrugging off wasp attacks like so much chemo and radiation, letting nothing phase him. Honey badger power to all!
Just to say this evening I finished the last pill of my 19th drug cycle - I am looking forward to climbing out of this hole and feeling good in a few days.
I'm getting a little wobblier. Just now I almost succeeded in tripping myself, and earlier I fell - fortunately, it was gentle and padded, and I didn't hurt anything. But my hip seems to have decayed further, and that raises the risks.
Things have flared up. The original cancer has grown a bit, and I've got a spot on my lymph node. Even with treatment my prognosis is 6 months to a year. Haven't really taken it in yet.
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Dad had his surgery the following Friday (tomorrow will be a week since) and has been healing well. The pathology report the doctor gave me this morning was great! They got all the cancer, and the lymph nodes they took had no cancer!
Thank you to all who have prayed and sent healing thoughts for Dad!
I forgot my special herbal tea 3 days in a row: Day 1 couldn't be a*sed, Day 2 ditto and by Day 3 had forgotten all about it and was waking up feeling completely nihilistic. I'd recite a Litany of Negativity for half and hour before rising at 7 am (late for me)
Back to it (the tea) now tho and wake up feeling like it's actually worth waking up
Still, I had 22 years before it got quite so critical (for longer than a year at a time, I mean). It was an illness ... I went throught treatments, got over it and thought "That's that then. Beaten you, you bastard!"
Now it's a whole lifestyle ...
I speak whereof I know.
Alas, those NOT afflicted don't always appreciate this...no disrespect to them, of course.
I was first shown the honey badger video last year by a friend who had cancer and had watched it so many times he was saying, "Honey badger don't give a shit," in the most inappropriate places -- making us all laugh inappropriately.
Maybe it should be the cancer mascot, just doing his thing, shrugging off wasp attacks like so much chemo and radiation, letting nothing phase him. Honey badger power to all!
I'm getting a little wobblier. Just now I almost succeeded in tripping myself, and earlier I fell - fortunately, it was gentle and padded, and I didn't hurt anything. But my hip seems to have decayed further, and that raises the risks.
Continued candle lighting for @Rossweisse .
<proper old-school votive in a proper wrought iron stand in a nice rural stone church that is never locked>
Ah, now that's what I call a candle!
@Robert Armin - so sorry to hear the news. Thoughts and prayers, as the saying is.
BTW, Our Place (albeit built of brick) has the sort of Proper Votive Candle stand described by Galilit. I shall duly use it at Mass tomorrow...