I'm out of the hospital ( Read more... )

..Turns outthey diagnosed me with lung cancer. Stage 4 ( Read more... )

When I am asleep, I don't have lung cancer. I am myself, and everything makes sense again. I am as I was, less than a year ago ( Read more... )

My daughter had gone to her full-time job, as she must; the baby to daycare--I miss them so ( Read more... )

I'm alive, and generally okqay, as chemo patients go I guess ( Read more... )

Now we're told: the forms won't matter ( Read more... )

They've re-scheduled everything at least twice--why don't they just show the appointments in a calendar format, so I can keep track ( Read more... )

Aannnd..just when I thought I was sort of starting to kind of get a handle on things, feeling ready for the big onslaught of chemotherapy..I had even gone and bought a couple of CDs of music I find calming and..bolstering, for lack of a better word..and replaced the hammock, between two trees in the back yard (the previous one, a dog we were ( Read more... )

So I went and got a Rocephin injection yesterday. My regular Primary care doc was on vacation, so I saw her substitute: an impressively thorough and caring young woman, who despite her Chinese name spoke perfect American/Californian English (I know, I know, I shouldn't be surprised, but it's always a relief to know I won't have to struggle through ( Read more... )

It wasn't the weather; I've got some bug.
Actually, seems to me, a bug I've had since March has flared up again.
Last evening, chills & fever, 102.5
Later same night, 101.5
this morning: 100.2
Afternoon: 100.4

Always low-grade, always lingering...
And ...( Read more... )