I'm not in the mood to write, or rehash my multitudinous woes - - but I suppose it's high time to enhance this long-abandoned blog with another post.
Besides, I don't get to use the word "multitudinous" very often.
Resurgence?
I'm back. The real me. Kinda like a faux resurrection.
Woes?
I got them (unfortunately).
My recent PETscan (April) revealed dismal results. I was truly agast when my new oncologist tried to list them all.
Some serious, others superficial - - unnerving, nevertheless.
He suggested that I most likely will need twenty radiation treatments.
Nothing new to me.
Nearly three years ago I had seven weeks of radiation.
Thirty-five treatments.
That's why every time I open my mouth, I can use it as a flashlight.
Ponder that. It will eventually get funny.
I have recently described this as "grueling". Here's why.
Radiation treatments aren't bad. It's totally painless and only lasts about 15 or 20 minutes. But you have to lay on an uncomfortable table and be perfectly still.
With my back and spinal woes, this can be absolute agony.
Grueling?
My treatments are in Cookeville Medical Center. I'm in Jamestown. Cookeville is an hour way. A two hour round trip. Early every morning, five days a week.
They pick me up before 7:00. Agony for a hardcore night owl.
Worst of all, I'm hauled away in an ambulance! The Signature transport bus is completely booked up with appointments.
The local ambulances are old and rickety (much like myself). The roads here are endlessly bumpy and constantly under construction. With the jolts and bumps I'm in absolute pain (yes, absolute). I'm nearly dead when we get there.
I am given pain pills every morning, but they don't help, except making me semi-sedated.
This now is my second week. Ten treatments. After that, there will very possibly be more.
And after after that, I'll need physical therapy for my legs and spine.
I can reveal plenty plenty more physical and mental woes.
I have much much more to say, but this annoyingly gloomy post is getting too long....and tedious.
Jon, endlessly agile (perhaps)
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