Introduction This post contains my cancer story and current status. It is a real-time, working draft. It changes frequently. It was created to make it easy for me to keep my family updated. As of today, anybody can read it. That means the reading audience can change at any time. I know of no writer […]
Yesterday, I met with Dr. Ryan Levy, a lung surgeon at Passavant Hospital in Pittsburgh. His evaluation is that I am a candidate for lung surgery to remove the cancer in the upper right lobe. The statistics he quoted was that with surgery, I have a 85% chance of removing all the cancer. The only […]
On May 2, at 9:30 am I started the chemo pill Capecitabine. As instructed, I ate something to eat and took an anti-nausea pill (prochoperazine) 20 minutes prior. About two hours later, I had my first case of diarrhea. However, it was only that one occurrence. Since then, I have had minor nausea symptoms and […]
It’s been 12 days since I last posted an update. During that time, Trevor completed the fireplace installation. Progress on the cancer treatment is not as fast as Trevor’s. On April 23, I met with Dr. Ramineni, thinking I would have Chemo that day. I didn’t. Dr. Ramineni is one of those doctors who does […]
My Cancer: I’m recovering more every day. Sleeping in not where it should be, one night 6 hrs, the next 3 hrs. My incision hurts at times. My belly (or liver ?) hurts off and on. I’m not walking enough and not using that silly device called a spirometer. I talked to Dr Geller’s nurse […]
6:00 AM: plan for the day: 10:00 pm Good day today, but I am still sleep-deprived. Hopefully I will be able to get 8 hours tonight. One minor concern: when I woke from my nap, I was fairly unstable on my feet. Rachel helped me to my chair in our TV area. She had set […]