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Guys, I'm home. I had to stay a day longer for another exam, but yesterday afternoon I finally came home. I held it together up until the door, then started wailing, and gave a terrible scare to my aunt and uncle. It was happy tears but they didn't know it. After that Francesca organized all my meds, cut my hair that was falling out because of the ( Read more... ) -
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Big news, they're sending me home on thursday afternoon (tomorrow!) right after the tenth and last session. Yesterday I met again with the radiologist and he was ecstatic at my progress, then I did a heart exam and the old ticker works great too. Tati came by and spent three days with me and that helped enormously with my mood. Next week I'm ( Read more... ) -
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7th session done, I met the other lady who does brain radiotherapy and we bonded. The food is always excellent and my roommate is adorable. They cut my cortisol intake to 4 mgs a day, which is great because I was starving all the time. A healthy appetite is great and all but it was getting ridicolous. Now it's another stupid long weekend, so I need ( Read more... ) -
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Three sessions done, seven to go. We skip the weekend, then it's monday, then stupid tuesday is a national holiday, then three more days and it's the weekend again. Good news is, I didn't have any side effects after the first one, so it's all smooth sailing from here. By the 5th session my sight should go back to normal, I really can't wait. Also ( Read more... ) -
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First radiotherapy session done. It was the worst one, they compared it to exposing your brain to direct sunlight, but quite frankly I was expecting way worse. I feel knackered but not bad. And starting tomorrow it shouldn't give me any bad side effects anymore, so we'll finally start on the feeling better process. It's ten sessions in total, but ( Read more... ) -
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So here's why I've disappeared lately. As soon as I came back from London I started having terrible headackes, partial blindness in my right eye, the works. On monday I had my usual pet scan, and that's when I collapsed, got rushed to the ER, and four exams later they found methastasis in my brain. Because why not. So now I'm stuck in the hospital ( Read more... ) -
"Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies, tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I."
Last entry before departure: I got my tickets, I got my passport, I got my suitcase. Hope I didn't forget anything important. I got a make-up bag full of medicines because I get super anxious everytime I have to leave the country. I'll take pictures on my phone because that camera is way better than the actual camera I bought in 2012 ( Read more... ) -
"Hear the trumpets hear the pipers, one hundred million angels singin'."
I've been back home in Venice for a couple of days. The weather is wonderful, as spring has finally arrived, and I feel at peace and relaxed. And yet I'm having problems sleeping, or to be more precise, I sleep just fine, but I wake up really early, even when there's no need to. It's like my brain suddenly needs fewer hours of sleep to recharge. I ( Read more... ) -
"I live in the future in my prewar apartment and I count all my blessings."
I'm back in Piedmont for a week. Yesterday I went to the hospital for the usual therapy, although there was a bit of a mishap. They were supposed to do the usual blood tests, and leave the needle inside my arm for the drip later. The nurses thought I was only meant to do the blood tests, so they took the needle out, to which I reacted shouting " ( Read more... )
