Monday is my next CT scan at 11:00 in the AM which means that I shall have a very early breakfast because I can't eat X number of hours before. Fortunately it is not a PET scan which is dependent on glucose uptake and has more stringent fasting requirements.
I see my oncologist at 2:00 so I will know the results which I expect to be clear. I am an optimist and damn foolish too.
I will have to schedule surgery at the main hospital to remove my port. On the one hand I shall be relieved to have it gone, but in some ways it has been my umbrella on a stormy day. Like so many folks I believe that if I take an umbrella with me on a stormy day, the rain will hold off.
I know that this is a specific kind of fallacy, but I can not remember what fallacy. More likely I never knew it's name.
Having the port removed is as psychologically jarring as having it put in. But it does have to be flushed once every month, so it requires me to take repeated trips back to the hospital. When I would rather be sleeping.
I shall simply have to get over it and get on with life.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
It will be a long wait...
One day soon, probably at the end of this month, I will provide the results of my next CT scan, and possibly an overly dramatic description of port removal. I am betting that my lymphoma doesn't come back and I trundle on my merry way; laughing and cracking jokes.
The physical therapy was over last Friday and I don't have to go back until or if I have a problem. My neck is still something of a pain but it's not as much as it once was. I use a heating pad a lot and do some exercises that my physical therapist gave me and one or two Yoga poses.
I have stayed off the skelaxin for the better part of a week; and I believe sleep better because of it.
The only thing that actually causes a problem is work under certain circumstances such when my stress level goes up (hot project syndrome) or I type and look at one area of the computer for long periods of time. Stress can give me very bad headaches and 'terminal-focus' as I like to call it requires me to hold my head in one place and hold my shoulders up to reach my laptop.
Fortunately I'm an old guy so I will probably choose to retire sooner than I would have otherwise. But I like to spend all my time on a computer anyway since I like to write.
So I seem to be well on my way to normalcy; if not already there.
The physical therapy was over last Friday and I don't have to go back until or if I have a problem. My neck is still something of a pain but it's not as much as it once was. I use a heating pad a lot and do some exercises that my physical therapist gave me and one or two Yoga poses.
I have stayed off the skelaxin for the better part of a week; and I believe sleep better because of it.
The only thing that actually causes a problem is work under certain circumstances such when my stress level goes up (hot project syndrome) or I type and look at one area of the computer for long periods of time. Stress can give me very bad headaches and 'terminal-focus' as I like to call it requires me to hold my head in one place and hold my shoulders up to reach my laptop.
Fortunately I'm an old guy so I will probably choose to retire sooner than I would have otherwise. But I like to spend all my time on a computer anyway since I like to write.
So I seem to be well on my way to normalcy; if not already there.
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