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Cancer Sucks!

Full treatment this time. Spent 4 1/2 hrs at clinic today getting blood tests and IV treatment. Pill quantity stays the same this round (4 a day = 2,000mg of poison). The cold sensitivity is not quite as bad as the previous IV treatments...we'll see if that changes though. Eyes aren't quite as buggy either...so far. Even with the anti nausea meds they add to the IV, my stomach is still uneasy. Not sick feeling, just no interest in food now. Maybe I'll shed a few pounds :) I weighed in at 187 lbs and the Doc was quite pleased with that. I asked him if I was getting too heavy and he laughed. Said "I'm not your GP and will never tell you to worry about what you eat or your cholesterol numbers, just keep eating!"

All the blood numbers are still trending up except the platelets. They are still stuck at 82K. The CEA marker dropped a little to 1.2, still very low in the normal range!

So, another good office visit with nothing but good news! So I have to endure some side effects to the drugs, big deal...I keep saying we're just killing off the stragglers!

I know I don't say it very often, but I really do appreciate all the support. Thank you all!
 
So, while Deb and I were at the clinic today I happened to hear a bit of "Sound of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel. It got me thinking and I changed the lyrics to suit my own situation. You can read/sing it just S&G did or if you're really daring...like the version David Draiman of "Disturbed" sang it earlier this year live on Conan!

S&G -
Voice version -
Disturbed -
Voice version - http://teamcoco.com/video/disturbed-03-28-16


Hello Chemo my old friend
You’ve come to torture me again
From an IV soft…ly creeping
Left its troops while I wa…s sleeping
And the poison, that was injected in my veins….still remains
Begins the sound of silence


In restless dreams I slept with Deb
With clean sheets, soft pillow for my head
Neath the spinning of a ceiling fan
I laughed and took it like a smart ass man
Then my head was stabbed…by the flash of a chemo trail…I closed my eyes
Then comes the sound of silence


And in my flapping gown I saw
A hundred people maybe more
People coughing witho…out their masks
Nurses going through their daily tasks
Doctor changing meds, so the cancer will be dead…..so he said
Disturbs the sound of silence


Fools said I, you do not know
It’s the cancer cells that grow
Hear my words that I mi…ght teach you
Take the test so it mi-ight save you
But my words, like silent raindrops, fell
Echoed in the wells of silence


And the patient stomped and brayed
To the doctor I had paid
And the sign flashed out i…its warning
In the words that it w…as forming
And the sign said my future plans are written on the wall…Kick in my balls
Whispered the sounds …..of silence


Credit to Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, two brilliant songwriters & singers with help from my wonderful wife Deb, who is a brilliant wordsmith in her own right!
 
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Well...here we are....

It was one year ago today I had the colonoscopy and was told there was a cancerous blob in my colon (didn't find out about the dead liver for another week). I can't believe a year has passed. Thankfully, I've felt good enough the last couple of days to celebrate by working on the car. I still bet my car is back on the road before numnuts from Chicaga's car!

I'm free till Wednesday and then start round 11 of chemo. Think about that for a moment. Each round is 3 weeks of poison. 30 weeks down, 6-9 more to go. The biggest surprise in all of this is:

A. I'm still here
B. I'm NOT my own night light! I thought for sure with all this poison mixed with radiation that I'd have some kind of glow!

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Round 11 started today, it didn't go as planned. Numbers are all down and platelets were way down...to 61,000. No IV today, just 2000mgs of pills a day for this round. I got a bag of super, pick me up fluids to help with the fatigue. It means I will be on drugs longer since the doc can't give me the amount needed to shorten up the timeline.

This sucks.

On a positive note, I can work on the car more.
 
Round 12 started yesterday. Got the full treatment plus the Doc added Avastln which targets the cancer cells in a different way than the normal IV (Oxaliplatin). Felt like shit yesterday, but feel better today. The cold sensitivity is not too bad. Can't drive for awhile as my eyes are kinda buggie.


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I was in South Africa for a couple weeks, it's winter down there. I caught a sinus infection/head cold. The flight home was miserable. 18 hours on a plane with sinus troubles seemed like a big deal. Then I think of what you are going thru...
Hang in there buddy!
 
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