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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Things sometimes move fast.
By JB aka JayBee
I have not written for a while, not sure which direction to go in. Lots happening in my life, not as much time or motivation to write about it all.
A telephone call this afternoon has narrowed my focus. The call was from Dr. A. who had gotten a chance to look over the MRI and CT scan that I had done on Wednesday, March 5th. He mentioned that the tumors in my lung were growing quickly and that there were several new tumors in both my left and right lungs that were not there on the December 31 CT scan.
This is not great news for me.
I have an appointment to talk with him about starting a regiment of Interluken 2 (sp?) as early as next week., This is an immune boosting approach to fighting cancer that causes you to be quite sick for about 10 days, followed by ten days of relative health. I am not sure what this will mean.
I had been considering traveling to the Gerson Hospital in Mexico with my mother for about the past week, but I realize now that my habit of hesitation is no longer a viable approach to solving my problems.
I wonder how starting a cancer therapy will affect my body and my spirits. I wonder if it will mean not going to visit my sister in Colorado as JSP and I had planned. I wonder if the therapy will help me at all or only make me sick. I wonder what I should do.
In a few minutes, JSP will come pick me up from work and I will tell him what I have learned. We will drive home through this wonderful spring thaw weather and I will hold his hand while tears flow. My tears will mix with the water flowing down the street, melted snow. The water will run down the sides of the street until they plunge unseen into a culvert and be carried through the storm sewar to the Mississippi river.
Meanwhile I will look into JSP's eyes and I will be happy that he is with me to help me decide what to do.
A telephone call this afternoon has narrowed my focus. The call was from Dr. A. who had gotten a chance to look over the MRI and CT scan that I had done on Wednesday, March 5th. He mentioned that the tumors in my lung were growing quickly and that there were several new tumors in both my left and right lungs that were not there on the December 31 CT scan.
This is not great news for me.
I have an appointment to talk with him about starting a regiment of Interluken 2 (sp?) as early as next week., This is an immune boosting approach to fighting cancer that causes you to be quite sick for about 10 days, followed by ten days of relative health. I am not sure what this will mean.
I had been considering traveling to the Gerson Hospital in Mexico with my mother for about the past week, but I realize now that my habit of hesitation is no longer a viable approach to solving my problems.
I wonder how starting a cancer therapy will affect my body and my spirits. I wonder if it will mean not going to visit my sister in Colorado as JSP and I had planned. I wonder if the therapy will help me at all or only make me sick. I wonder what I should do.
In a few minutes, JSP will come pick me up from work and I will tell him what I have learned. We will drive home through this wonderful spring thaw weather and I will hold his hand while tears flow. My tears will mix with the water flowing down the street, melted snow. The water will run down the sides of the street until they plunge unseen into a culvert and be carried through the storm sewar to the Mississippi river.
Meanwhile I will look into JSP's eyes and I will be happy that he is with me to help me decide what to do.
Labels: CT, friendship, Melanoma, MRI, winter