Saturday, June 8, 2013
Plowing Ahead
I have not posted in a while, not much has changed in tumor land. The Ativan is still doing a decent job at keeping the chronic headaches at bay, but I can tell my body is starting to develop a tolerance to it. Luckily, as I had hoped, The Tramadol I used for headaches a year ago and developed a tolerance to it, is now effective. I have the quarterly MRI this month, not expecting any changes. I still have flashbacks to the state when I was in radiation and chemo treatment. Its a overwhelming feeling of exhaustion and nausea that lasts for about a week. These 'attacks' come on once every three months. I do not know what brings these on and have nothing to fight it except sleep. Where I normally get 8 hrs sleep per night, when these flashbacks happen I will be in bed for two days.
I am still working full time as a engineer. My logic skills are sill sharp as a tack.
This spring I volunteered as an assistant coach on my 14yr old's baseball team. For those of you that know me personally, you can get up from the floor. We know that I never played a game of baseball in my life. I told the coach that, but there were not enough volunteers. We have 2-3 games through the week and practice both Saturday and Sunday. This is a lot of exercise getting the boys warmed up and running drills with them. Combined with work, this takes ALL of my energy. I regret that my garage band has not played in a while - sorry guys.
So I keeping up the fight, plowing through life in the face of my tumor.
I am still working full time as a engineer. My logic skills are sill sharp as a tack.
This spring I volunteered as an assistant coach on my 14yr old's baseball team. For those of you that know me personally, you can get up from the floor. We know that I never played a game of baseball in my life. I told the coach that, but there were not enough volunteers. We have 2-3 games through the week and practice both Saturday and Sunday. This is a lot of exercise getting the boys warmed up and running drills with them. Combined with work, this takes ALL of my energy. I regret that my garage band has not played in a while - sorry guys.
So I keeping up the fight, plowing through life in the face of my tumor.
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Baseball is the best! I didn't know anything about the game until my diagnosis. Now I am a big fan.
ReplyDeleteIts good to hear that everything is status quo. And you have two medication to switch to for the headaches. You should check out Cancer Compass. One person on there uses Dixie Drops for headaches. Did you suggest to the oncologist to have your MRI every 4 months? My husband's oncologist tells him every 3 months. My husband would feel better to have the intervals longer-he gets anxious when its time for another one. Keep posting-good to hear from you.
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