Three! More! Days!

[armoire_man]

Starting on Monday I've got three more irradiation/chemotherapy days, then it's over.  Good God almighty.  I have dropped farther - I gave up on the outside world today.

I am having a great time listening to The Fantastiks, which I haven't really heard and seen since I was about nine - I can't remember when my parents took me to it, or where, or

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[bix]

Three more days? Really? That's it? Then you are...better? Something? In any event, that means you can start getting your brain back. I'm so pleased and happy for you.

(But I thought it was radiation only, no chemo?)

[armoire_man]

My major treatment is 28 weekdays long, and I've got 3 days left. After Wednesday I'll be done with irradiation/chemo.

I'll know more about my abilities in about two, three weeks, after everything that's been zapped has settled, re-sized.

I will have "several years" of no more cancer growth, but...at some point it'll come back, untreatable, at least currently. They might have new treatment by then, it is hoped.

How is your treatment? I know it's been going on for years, which sounds sad and eternal. Do you have any way of telling how your illness continues, that's really estimatable?

[kip_w]

Wuff! Here's to many years of boring normalitude, and less static on the radio. I should pull out the AM set some night and see how far away I can get stations now.

[bix]

My treatment only happens when I have active cancer, and so over the past nine years or so I've had chemo in two eight month, and now what will be an eleven month chunks. There were breaks of two plus and then four years in there. It's not as bad as it seems. My doctor keeps hoping to actually cure me, while I think of it as a chronic disease, like diabetes, which flares up from time to time. It's workable, thus far, as long as I get those breaks of normalcy.

I hope with all my heart that they come up with a new treatment before you have another flare up.