Boy, talk about things going to hell in a hand-basket!
Simple week, One radiation treatment on each weekday, treatment time 10 mins - total time including drive and wait, usually less than 50 mins, One Chemo treatment which includes lab work and doctors visit, less than 4 hour including drive and wait time. Looked like a good week.
Let see, Monday did radiation. Oncologist is next door so I stopped in to see about pain relieve medication refill. That turned into a doctors visit, who said it should not be hurting that bad. Something was wrong. Off to the radiology lab for a Doppler. Knew things where going south when the technician doing the Doppler suddenly got real quite. She said she was done but needed to talk to the doctor.
Next stop... You guessed it, back to the hospital. CAT scans, Doppler Test, etc etc. Not good.
Well got a bunch of new blood clots. Blood thinner not doing it's job. Go a clot trap install (something called an IVT) and medication changes. Turns out this problem actually has a name. Trousseau's Syndrome. So now we have two items on the plate to address. The cancer and my fancy new french named thing.
Went into the hospital Monday afternoon but got out Wednesday afternoon. At least the stays are getting shorter. Also got my pain medication refilled with addition relief - Now on a Fentanyl Patch.
Well it's Thursday and back on schedule. Got my radiation and followed that up with Chemo. Went pretty smooth. Weight still a problem so I'm going to start logging my menus and try and figure out what I can do to get it headed back the right direction. Brother John had a suggestion that I think needs additional investigation. He recommended eating a pound of bacon at every meal. Any comments (or suggestions)?
As Pedro would say - I hate Charley, But now I guess the big C for me can also mean I hate charley and I hate the clot.
Pablo
2 comments:
Anne says: Drink a milkshake at every meal.
As for the bacon - scientists at Oregon State University have developed a new strain of seaweed that tastes like fried bacon when it's cooked. Highly nutritious it goes by the name of dulse. The succulent red marine algae has up to 16% protein twice the nutrition of kale and is endorsed by pigs worldwide. Just saying. Perhaps Brandon and Jessica packed some in their luggage for the trip back to Texas.
Just sayin'
Sissy
OK Paul - if the fried bacon flavoured seaweed doesn't work for you Bella is feeding Brandon and Jessica's pig while they are in Lockney. We could always "arrange" to have Petunia disappear from the backyard if that would tempt your palate.
Sissy
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