Thursday, February 22, 2007

Busy day today getting all the paperwork completed and turned in to start my FMLA/STD. The federal wasn't so bad, only four pages but the insurance stuff for Short Term Disability was a stack! As of Friday I will be off and can focus on the healing. With all the additional creams and pills and feed tube and everything it takes extra time in the morning and at night to get things done. Getting up around 4 in the morning to make sure I had time to get everything done and get to work on time so I could get my hours in before taking off for RT was taking its toll on me.

I'm guessing Andrea will be ready to kick me out to the curb before it's time to go back to work!!!

The day went fine, I had to go to the dentist to get impressions made for my fluoride trays. More gagging in the dentist chair! Nothing new! I have to go back in on Monday for fitting and instructions. We'll see if I am going to gag through this everyday! I hope not!

Maybe now that I'm off I can stay awake later than 8:00 at night! Thankfully we have DVR!

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Wednesday was Erbitux day. We started a little later (20 minutes) than normal but it was enough to keep us busy and keep me from getting a nap between that and RT. The benedryl really nailed me and put me in a bad funk. We got home tried to eat some lunch and were off to RT.

Karen went with to RT so she got the grand tour and got to see me get strapped in for treatment. All went fine and as soon as we got home I hit the couch and took a good nap!

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Busy day at work. All of senior and executive management out of town except for me left me a bit busy with a safety incident and some managers having employee issues. Put too much miles on the legs through the mud! Left me pretty tired by the evening.

Saw Dr. Leonard after the RT today and he had a difficult time finding Earl. Earl has gone from about the size of golf ball at his biggest to currently the size of a small marble or maybe a large kidney bean. And he gets smaller every day! I am getting a bit red on the neck from the RT but the mouth has remained really healthy. I do have some good cotton mouth and have lost a good deal of taste but other than that it's doing really well.

Once we got home I went straight for the couch! I was beat! Tomorrow is Erbitux day and then Karen will be taking me to RT since Andrea is getting some nerves burned in her neck in the afternoon.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Whoa Nellie! Time flies when your having fun!!! I missed a couple of posts! It's been a busy couple of days getting things prepared for taking some time off and normal day to day stuff.

Monday was a fairly normal day health wise, I've got a few more zits going. Not sure why, thought I was pretty well through with that activity but it may be because we missed the normal time for the Erbitux last week. May have thrown the body for a twist as I think I had gotten into a pretty good schedule.

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Pretty much another take it easy day. The Erbitux still causes a "hangover" and was back on Sunday this week due to the delay of getting my treatment last week. Sensitive skin and pretty wiped out most of the day. We were able to relax though, which was good, and watch the Daytona 500.

Another day closer to end...one day at a time!

Saturday, February 17, 2007

The weekend is a time for recharging and building up some reserve for the upcoming week. I take it pretty easy and today took a nice nap in the afternoon. I have to get up and walk around the house for awhile every now and then however just to keep the blood flowing and try to get the itch to do something down a bit. When your not used to just sitting around it actually gets old pretty quickly. I can look outside or in the garage and see a lot of things that I would really like to be doing, but I know I won't make it too long and I need the energy to fight more important battles right now.

The face continues to look better each day with fewer zits. The chest and back still have a good deal of them but nothing as big and ugly as the nose got! You really have to look to see Earl anymore, he is smaller than he was before Christmas. Nice to see (or should I say not to see!)! It's amazing how quickly he shrunk once the RT started.