wheels

What an invention! I've got a wheelchair, and can wheel into my office and blog and stuff. Hand-eye coordination is still poor though. Still, nice to have it back.

Feeling pretty crappy; not much pain, but a fair amount of discomfort which would probably be pain if it wasn't for the meds.

dehydration

I'm feeling a little dehydrated today, most likely due to them taking the IV thing out. So I feel a little crappy today. And I have no energy or anything else. I still sit and pant like after running a 10K after walking the few feet to the bathroom. So I'm still not able to get to my desk.

Visiting nurse is due- catch you later.

sick

Well, he's back! I'm really not sure what is gong on, but it seems that the chemo did not work and probably did bad. It seems to have killed off a lot of the bacteria in my gut. Actually maybe not- could have been the other antibiotics I had. One guy thinks it was the stuff I took for the infected toe. Whatever the proximate cause, the effect was to decrease the populations of everything except this particular strain which then infected my colin thereby colitis. This then caused the increase in fluid in the intestinal tract, which killed my appetite ( no place for the food to go), etc. etc.

Anyway, I'm home again, and starting to feel better. Daughter E and SIL G were here for the festivities. My SIL is a big strong guy; very comforting in someone helping you upstairs.

Rattlesnakes

Note to the northern front- the northern range of the Eastern Timber rattler is in PA, home of the largest rattlers in the world.

Well, I'm back. I really needed a day off from the blog. It was really getting oppressive. I hear rumours about people being upset. Do you have any idea how depressing it is to send out a blog and get no response whatsoever? So I'll still Blog, but on my schedule and without the compulsion. I know I set it up that way.

We're experimenting with the different drugs, pain-killers as well as digestion meds, in different concentrations, and seem to be making some progress. IN the mean time, I'm still flaky from the pain pills, so much so that I can't trust myself to drive. Nor to write a coherent blog without a lot of effort!

fighting

Still fighting, albeit a little late. Hey, I'm going to have to declare force majure here with the timing. I know some of you look forward to getting this to assure yourseves I'm sill alive, and I know I said by noon would do it, but it's getting increaseingly difficult to do. So there may be times when I don't get it out by noon or even 4. I'm sure you can deal.

Definition of Force Majure:

http://www.google.com/search?q=force+majure&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGLD_en

Anyway, I had a nice conversation with my doctor, the result of which is that I take 20 mg of the time release drug every 12 hour, and use the non- time release for pain breakthroughs, which I haven't needed yet, but it's only been a few days. More info as available.

Another boring day. I don't know if that's good or not- just a fact, jack.

Leaves are falling big-time. They are so big and heavy, being wet, that you can hear them hitting the ground.

effects

My side effects seem to getting side effects. I'm taking the Drug to decrease pain and allow me to live in some reasonably facsimile of normal. But this leads to hallucinations, so I can't do much. Even I get saturated with TV once in a while. So I spend a lot of time in bed, sometimes napping, sometimes watching TV or reading, which has now lead to leg cramps. Fun, fun. The eternal quandary is, of course, do I take pain pills for the cramps, which hurt all right? I think not. I think I'll just try to spend less of the day in bed

The diarrhea issue stays with me too. The drug has moved me along the continuum from diarrhea to constipation, to the point where I now get constipation just by skipping the fibre and eating nothing but meat, a diet which worked really well a month go.

O well, keep fighting, I guess