seby wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 5:49 pm
TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 10:32 am
seby wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:07 am
I hurt my back because I slept the wrong way. This is what being middles aged means - "I slept the wrong way and now I am injured". FFS
This is exactly what led to me dismissing my spouse' cancer symptoms. Fatigue? Random Pains? That's life in the slow lane baby. Get in, we're going sleeping.
Hello from bed. But seriously - how are they doing? How are you??
Hail bed. Hey thanks for asking - Chris is responding well to the chemo, the tumor disappeared so fast they actually felt it 'move' in their chest. Crazy and gross. But the daunting runway of 4 more months of chemo is heavy - The downsides right now, is they had a pretty hefty reaction to the vincristine and has neuropathy in hands and now feet. Really depressing because we thought there would be much guitar and synth playing in hospital - chris finds it hard to even text. The neuropathy also extends to the GI tract so it's been a super painful and sleepless week, but the GI doc said he can hear movement and he's sure it'll resolve. I guess there's not as many nerves in your bowels so they come back quickly - hands and feet are 6-12 months or never.
I don't exactly know how I'm doing. Chris says I'm doing amazing, but I know it's mostly all insect brain stuff - emotionally I'm a wreck, and I can tell that just from the amount I'm posting, and the therapeutic work I'm doing with the ladies at the donut shop. Our friends are really amazing and I'm struggling to work in how to use their help (managing that can sometimes be harder than just doing a thing) and not overburden myself, or be un-grateful.
Chris' bandmate is getting married today, and their white blood cell counts are up so I'm going to see if the nurses will let me sneak us out for an hour to check in on the periphery. I don't think anyone will mind a bald escaped hospital covict from crashing the taco truck and not staying for dancing