Friday, March 2007

Another day down. Everyone counts! The burns on the neck are going good now and providing some discomfort. But all in all considered doing good. A friend with with us yesterday to take a look at what goes on with treatments and all. He had stopped the chewing tobacco when he heard I had it and I wanted to give him the chance to see why I should have stopped. Hopefully he'll be off if for good now. It's not anything I would like to repeat!

We changed around the timing of the schedule which seems to work fairly well. Helps me get in my three squares a bit easier and a good nap as well. When they say it takes it out of you it really does.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

We'll were still surviving out hear in cancer land!! We had a close call one this week on getting the RT done, gag reflex got me but we focused back in and got it done. Thank fully with Andrea on my side she helps me get through it. We're changing around the schedule a bit due to some scheduling at the Littleton office but it could be beneficial.

Biggest concern right now is my weight, as it is dropping. I'm getting good food into me but the just don't understand how I truly ate before! As most of you know it was not really to much on the healthy side! So know (even got a McDonald's burger the other night) it still didn't have the mayo on the fries! The 2 chimis loaded a t El Tehata just doesn't compare to what comes out of a can of boost! Can't wait to get my taste buds back and get get to some of that good stuff again. It would kill my to get steak on a stake and not be able to taste it!!!

The necks gotten pretty burned but we keep it gooped up and are getting by. Not much longer and we'll be getting into recovery time frame. Yahoo!

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Sunday was a good day considering it was Erbitux hang over day. Not a bad one though, more kind of tired me out that anything. The folks made it back into town Saturday night and came by in the afternoon as well as my bud and my sister and niece. Kind of a busy afternoon but once I got a bit run down I was up in bed for a recharge.

We did go to the infusion center in the morning to get a liter of fluid; it really does seem to help me quite a bit to keep the fluids nice and high through the process. I'm really fealling like a pin cushion but if it;s getting me better that's what counts! We'll keep on doing it!

Tomorrow we'll have another busy day. First off to Dr. Nemecheck for a review then over to RMCC - Litttleton for a liter of fluids and then RT. The break from the RT has helped a bit over the weekend on the burns so we'll see how another full week effects me. We'll really have to keep it creamed up.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

It seemed the luck o' the Irish was on me yesterday! All in all it was a pretty good day. I was able to get some food down the throat...yes throat...not just the feeding tube with out to much pain. Andrea had made some tuna salad for lunch and we gave it a try before using the blended and it went down OK! Had a couple of Inta Juices (loaded with calories) and an instant breakfast. For dinner I had been dying for a some Mexican food so Andrea made some smothered burritos and we blended one one up! I may miss the initial taste of food but I get the smells before hand and an occasional burp (which is strange) afterword....better than that canned crap let me tell you!

The radiation burns are getting going good now. A bit hard to describe. It's not really like your typical sunburn. Remember the stryrofoam padding that you would put on a new kids bike? Preformed. long tubular shaped? Just wrap around and Velcro closed. That's what these burns on the collar bones feel like. It's not really really painful, more a bit abrasive, annoying and scratchy...just all the way around the bone not just the exo skin layer. Weird. I keep lathering them with this burn cream I have been told to and hanging in there. What else to do!

We just keep on truckin'! One day closer to the cure!