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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. |
| I had my online meeting with a VA oncologist today. She was great, honest, and upfront. She is out of Carolina, but does a lot of work with people all over the states, and with many cancer centers, including Roger Maris, the one I go to. She has also worked with my oncologist and has other patients who see him. She went over all he's done and agrees with the treatment and the imunology fr another ten months. It was a relief learning he's a good doctor and doing everything right; he just doesn't communicate things to me. The VA oncologist was surprised that he had not told me everything. She did. My cancer is very aggressive and very difficult to kill off. Untreated my life expectancy would have been three to six months. But with the aggressive chemo, I get longer to live. How much longer? That's uncertain; a year or two is what she said is the time frame for the cancer to return, and there is only a slight chance that it won't. Yes, there is only a small probability that the cancer won't return, and in most cases it resurfaces in a year or two after treatment. WE did talk about possible treatments and actions if or when it returns, but it all depends on where the cancer attacks and how healthy I am. There is a possibility that I may continue my immunology longer, and she's looking into other possible ways to keep the cancer at bay. I see her again in three months, after my next scan. She also told me there isn't much they can do to even detect the cancer in my body until it starts to grow. Then it will show on the CT Scan. It sounds like I will have a CT Scan every three months to look for the dreaded beasts' return. How am I handling this news? I'm doing alright, but a bit depressed. This is way too close to the loss of my mother back in the nineties. She beat the cancer, but only for a year. She spent Christmas in the hospital receiving treatments. After, her oncologist told us that her cancer would likely return in a year or two. We got one more year to spend with her. By the next Christmas, the cancer was back, and halfway through January, she was gone. I'll do my best to keep a positive attitude, and I'm putting my trust in God. Maybe the doctors can't stop this type of cancer, but I know my Lord can; that's where I put my trust. |
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