Thursday was the big medical day this week. I had an MRI of my brain at Mass Eye and Ear, and then went over to Mass General to have my right lung drained. The MRI was uneventful but I always forget how incredibly LOUD the MRI machine is when I stick my head in it. …
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The last level of the video game looks like this: I confess that laundry has been the toughest challenge on my independence goals list. Everything else got figured out pretty fast. As this image shows, the laundry in my rental is crammed in a corner of the bathroom, between two doors, making it even tighter. …
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Wow. Almost a week went by. There is lots to report in no particular order. We traveled to a friend’s house for friendsgiving, which was lovely, and I was introduced to the joys of cat bingo. And friends from Montreal came through on Sunday, which was also nice. We had social plans Saturday but they …
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Although there is a lot to complain about in the New York Times lately <cough>US political coverage</cough>, they have been absolutely killing it in the cancer op-eds department. Monday had a fantastic piece about a dying daughter facing her mortality that is also a great critique of the culture of the US medical system. I …
So over the weekend the fevers got worse, culminating in my waking up at 102.9F at 3:30am Monday morning and having to awaken Carrie because I was shivering too hard to get the Tylenol in me. Monday morning I skipped my cancer meds dose and Monday afternoon we went into the cancer center for a …
This will be not very creative because the fever is back, which means my brain is in a “makes its own sauce” phase, like processed food from the 1970s. That’s the only simile you get. Sorry. I’ve had a fever on and off since Thursday. At first we thought maybe it was a flu but …
