So I met with the Doctor today and I was yet in ANOTHER new rental car. On Friday, a car filled with very tired graveyard shift drivers decided to turn left into my Expedition. Good news...no injuries. Bad news, a lot of extra work and another car in the shop.
ANYWAY, I sit down with the same Doc that I had a couple years ago. The nurses all said hi and asked about the boys....it is like that now, everywhere I go. "Teenagers?!?!? How is that?!?!?!" Anyway, I digress. The doctor comes in and gets straight down to business...."Well, I had to call Hank because his notes are awful and as we were talking, you know he has a brilliant mind, anyway, as we were talking, your six spots are at three very different stages of development. Two are new and have never been treated, two are old from when you first came and were treated by cyberknife with the markers still in tact, and two are two small to treat. We will just watch those. So, I told him that I can do all of these and systemic is not necessary at this time. So, let's take a look...." Okay pause. While, he is looking at the pictures which I now know all too well....I feel like falling off my seat.....no one has ever said, "You get to do less." They have said things like, "You have no cancer in your pelvis." "So, I am out of here doc?" "Oh no, you are riddled with it in your lungs." or
"You have no signs of live cancer in your body." "So, am I out of here Doc?" "No, we have to do six more treatments just to be sure." There was the one time they said, "We saved your lower right lobe." "Y-e-a-h....." between opiate pills - pass me a pill. Okay, now we are back in the office, I had to have him repeat everything and he decided to treat the two new untreated spots first AND I don't need markers because they are close to my spine (which is sometimes the hardest part of the process), BUT (here is the but), he will have to treat them one at a time. O-K-A-Y, that is it? "What about the old ones that were treated?" "I suspect we will just zap/hit/treat (can't remember) those in six months to a year." We can keep doing this until someday your lungs can't take anymore or you can't handle the treatment anymore (which involves four pre appointment, five treatments and laying on a table very still for a hour - I can do that.) But hopefully, we just keep going and someday we beat it before it beats us. "OKAY! When do we start I am going away at the end of June." He asked if I wanted to wait until after, "NOPE. NOW." So I will have approximately 18 doctors visits before I leave. THAT IS A LOT. The slowest part is insurance.
On the way home, I confirmed with Hank that there was no systemic. He said, "Sorry to disappoint..." Funny, funny man.
I got home to my very clean yet not organized house that I have four meals being prepped for the freezer for chemo......I gleefully make lunch, send some emails, do some work and then I sit down for just a moment before I have to get Nolan. I close my eye and take a quick nap. I get up, hit the restroom and POW....the room starts to spin, I get really hot, I vomit, and I am exhausted. Room still spinning. I have somehow taken off my shirt and necklace and I am taking off my pants and sweating like crazy.......the room slows down a bit and I click in, "I can't drive. Especially a rental car, after to two accidents and half naked.....what do I do?!?!?!" Mom can't make it there in time, so I text a couple mom's and Cheryl's text comes back and says she can do it. THANK GOD. Get in bed, a try breathing exercises. My in-laws were blowing back through town and I texted them to see if they could get Mason. Yes. Saved. Now, just my meeting tonight. I started slowly feeling better, but I was exhausted and when I asked my President what I should do, she was like, "DON'T COME IF YOU CAN'T." I think there was probably a "you dork" in there somewhere. I got stuff together for Grant to take up to the meeting. Visited the in laws for a while and ate dinner and was in bed by 7:45. Now, of course I am up and feel fine. Probably just the stress and then relaxation from it all.
So, there is it. Just Cyberknife. I can do that.
Oh and wave at the Black Fusion - it is the car of the moment!!!!! And by the way, this car situation is also exactly like in 2000 when Grant hit two deer five weeks apart in each car - totaled one (not hard it was a Fiesta and we got $300 for it) and $5000 dollars on the Subaru. This time it is me getting hit four weeks apart in each car. It is all very confusing....so I thought I would clarify!
Happy Tuesday,
Ang
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