Today is, as planned, my day off. But it’s a good time for a report of where things are at. I finished the drafts of two chapters that needed finishing this week, and produced more words than planned in doing so (Chapter 3 is at just over 17,000 words when I expected to come in …
Category Archives: Cancer
White hot hands theory
It could be the weather.We’ve had some particularly bad weather the last few days. I’ve started paying attention and it could be that my hands get tingly when there is a pressure change. So maybe bad and good pain days are not entirely arbitrary. My sample size is too small right now, but I’m going …
The new normal implies that I know what normal is
I saw my oncologist today and things are basically the same as last month. I didn’t get my tumour marker readings but will update this if and when they come in. My tumour marker is down again, to 4.1. My next CT is in 3 months and we’ll see how that’s going, but it seems …
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And now…some good news
Tl;dr: It was a drug interaction. And my tumour marker dropped even more. I’m recovering now and eating normal food again. I love flavour! I figured it out on Weds the 25th, as I was having a downright painful morning that made me 45 minutes late to my undergrad seminar. Between that and flying, I …
Drugs update for September
That was an intentionally innocuous title. So the last post was nice and sentimental about starting school. I meant everything I said, but it is true that that post is not an entirely accurate reflection of what Wednesday September 4th was like for me. This one will be slightly darker. It will also involve explicit …
Here’s some good news
The drugs appear to be working. Last week I had my semi-annual CT scan, and I got my results Thursday. The two largest tumours have shrunk by just under 1cm each. Now, before you get too excited, remember that remission is not on the table here. The goal of this therapy is to stop the …
Ouchtime (Trigger warning: throat stuff)
So one of the big questions of life on Lenvima is how much can I push myself. The answer is “somewhat less than August.” We had a flurry of visitors through town early in the month, then went to King Crimson band camp for a week, which was a blast but not the kind of …