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My thoughts released; a mind set free |
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These pages contain my thoughts, from meandering ideas and persuasions to deep cerebrations and serious mentations. Why, for what purpose? To release my mind and set creativity free. Somewhere inside the constraints of my mind dwells a writer, a poet, an artist who paints with words. In here I release those constraints and set the artist free. Perhaps, lost somewhere in the depths of thought, is a story or a poem, waiting to be written. |
| Tuesday and Wednesday wrapped up my chemotherapy sessions; unless something changes, I'm all finished. For that, I am very thankful. The timing didn't work out as planned; I was supposed to be done two weeks ago and would likely be starting to feel better. One of my medications made me very sick the night before and the day of that infusion, so I had to cancel. My oldest had invited us to his place for Thanksgiving, and we had planned on attending if it was in the cards, but as it turned out, my wife ended up working today. This is fine, since I'm sicker than hell from the last infusion, and if she works Thanksgiving, it means she will have Christmas off; a fair trade in my book, especially since I'll be feeling a lot better by then. Hell, I'm hoping to start feeling better in a week or so. However, each infusion is rougher than the previous, and it takes longer to recover after each one. So, I may be feeling pretty rough for a week or two before I start to recover from this last one. I do know the steroids I take during and the day after my infusions make me feel awful. Their purpose is to help my body recover from the damage of the chemo, but I'm not sure if they're helping or not. I felt better when I woke up this morning, but half an hour after taking them, I'm tired, sick, and dizzy. I did talk to the doctor on Tuesday about the ill effects of the steroids. She agreed they can make a person pretty sick, but she advised me to take them. She reasons that I'll be feeling ill from them for a few days, but without them, it will take me a lot longer to recover from the infusion. A few days of misery versus a week or more of added misery? I'll take the steroids. This year, Thanksgiving is delayed for a few weeks if I start to feel better and regain some normal sense of taste; if not, then it's cancelled, and I'll look forward to Christmas. No matter what, I give thanks today, and evey day for all the little blessings in my life. |
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