13 Tuesday Jan 2009
Posted in cancer, friends, health & happiness, hospitals, life stuff, rants
I have no idea what to think or how to feel.
Went to see the oncologist with Pablo yesterday and really had no idea what to expect. Though I assumed (because I’d been told this by the surgeons after the last op) that I would be put on “clean up” chemo again, probably for 5-6 months. Wrong!
11 Thursday Dec 2008
Posted in cancer, health & happiness, hospitals
All three biopsies came back negative!!!
So it was back to the hospital this morning with Pipocas. I was supposed to get my belly looked at again after last week’s emergency trip due to having an infection. I was worried because something gross had ruptured through the incision and was looking rather nasty, but it turned out not to be anything serious and I was even told I could stop taking the antibiotics now. And while there I asked Amazing Nurse Person if she could check and see if my biopsy reports had come back …
03 Wednesday Dec 2008
Posted in cancer, health & happiness, home, hospitals
Yet another taxi ride to the hospital today.
On Monday the nurse came over and took out my staples (ouch!) and when I asked him why the pain wasn’t getting any better he just said it was a big incision, plus it was the second time they’d opened the same area, so that it would probably take longer to heal. I’m also having a bit of leakage (ewww) but the nurse said it didn’t look infected, and I didn’t have a fever, so we left it at that. And then . . .
25 Tuesday Nov 2008
Posted in health & happiness, hospitals, life stuff
“Ankh-Morpork did not have many hospitals. All the Guilds maintained their own sanitariums, and there were a few public ones run by the odder religious organizations, like the Balancing Monks, but by and large medical assistance was non-existent and people had to die inefficiently, without the aid of doctors.”
– Terry Pratchett [Guards! Guards!]
24 Monday Nov 2008
Posted in animals & pets, friends, health & happiness, home, hospitals, life stuff, love
I am so happy to be home again. Been back for about three hours. Have showered and ‘washed the hospital off me’ and am in my pj’s feeling totally exhausted. But it’s a good kind of exhausted, you know? But I almost didn’t make it home today …
casa azahar 