The Miracle of the Shoes

The old adage of waiting for the other shoe to drop was one used by a bunch of us in an email support group years ago where, because of difficulties outside of our control, we seemed to get hit with crisis’s all too often without any warning.

In the last year or so I’ve been the beneficiary of quite a number of shoes. You’d think they would have to run out, or at least get to the slipper section over time, however with every shoe that drops, a new pair miraculously appears precariously positioned over my head, just high enough to give a good wallop when it too falls, and we are talking about good solid footwear.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Good News!

The good news first: all scans show no change. 

The bad news is that I am wiped out from two days of hospital visits and weeks of anxiety over the results, and I get to do it all over again in four months. Oh well, I am grateful that my cancer seems to be holding steady and not advancing past the two spots in my bones. So I will continue going up to Chapel Hill for my monthly infusion and injections and will see my oncologist every other month.

Before my regular oncologist came in, an oncology fellow came in to check me out. She was very nice and started asking me lots of the normal questions: “how are you”, “are you having any pain”, etc. After a couple of more questions I finally piped up “I’m sorry, can I stop you for a minute? Will you give me the results of my scans?”
"Oh, yes, you would want to know that right away wouldn't you." So young with so much to learn! Of course when Dr. Carey walked in, the first thing she did was give me a big thumbs up.

Other highlights: 
  • They only give you an extra large size of soda mixed with contrast to drink before the CT scan instead of what seemed like a double Big Gulp size. 
  • There was a farmer's market going on in the hospital lobby Wednesday so I bought some fresh, just picked figs! Yum! 
  • The oncology nurse saw me reading Stig Larson's second book, The Girl Who Played With Fire and told me that Daniel Craig is set as the lead in the American movie of the first book in the trilogy. Now who will play Lisbeth Salander?
  • I fell asleep as soon as I reclined the car seat and didn't wake up until just a few miles from home on the way back, leaving Doug to deal with the traffic and delays on I-40!

So now I'll take a few days to deal with the side effects of my treatment, relax from my pre-scan stress and get back to the many projects I kind of let slide this past week. Life as usual, or in my case, life as chaotic as usual!
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