Categories
cancer

May 26, 2025

Not much happened today, cancerwise

Categories
cancer status

May 10, 2025

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 […]

Categories
cancer Health status

May 4, 2025

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 […]

Categories
cancer Health status

April 17, 2025

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 […]

Categories
cancer status

April 9, 2025

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 […]