Today was a good day.  I drove Frank and Liz to that airport and for the most part traffic was light.  It was bittersweet sending them off since I had started to grow accustomed to having them around, but I do like having my house to myself (and Isabella). I went into work and generally […]

Today I woke up with a single appliance left in reserve after changing out again last night.  I found a really good video online that suggested some things that I had not tried before that I am trying, mainly one where I rotated the square barrier 45 degrees to apply in as a diamond which […]

I was hoping for a visit from the nurse today, but after not hearing from her by 11AM, I made a call.  Talking with her we arranged for her to come tomorrow morning and to bring some backup supplies, which along with the Amazon order I expect tomorrow should alleviate that stress. I noticed the […]

Other than the stress about my low supplies, today went well.  I did end up burning through another apparatus when the adhesive on the one I installed in the middle of the night lost hold. I tried for awhile to augment it with tape before it gave out, but ultimately that is only going to […]

Today was for the most part good.  I woke unexpectedly early to find that my apparatus had become detached from my in the night.  It was the night of the third day, so I was reaching the end of life for that one, but still, not how one wants to wake at 3AM.  I took […]

Today I turned in my infusion pump. After carrying it around for 2 days, it was nice to move without my hip pack attached.  The steroid that they gave me during day 1 must have worn out since I was much less “zoomy” today and even took a nap. I still feel good but I […]

I spent the day with the infusion pump, slowly giving me doses of the 5-FU all day.  So far I have not observed any particular side effects from it.  I did experience the cold sensitivity yesterday to the Oxalaplatin, but nothing too major. I went into work and was able to put in a normal […]

I can’t say the first treatment is done since I sit here typing this with the pump attached to my hip injecting me with small doses of the 5-FU. I arrived for the treatment early (as is my habit) and they had me in the room pretty quickly.  The room is pretty large with about […]

Today started out like the last two.  I woke and went into work.  Thankfully I received a call shortly after getting in confirming that my chemotherapy treatments start tomorrow at 9AM PST.  In the afternoon I met with my surgeon for a follow-up and everything is healing nicely. To prepare for my treatment, I got […]