Part 1: More Interesting Than COVID

I’ve been in occupational therapy, and it’s going well. My therapist glanced at the routes offered to get me back home and suggested one. It was a suggestion, not an assignment. I came back the next week with this report. It took five hours to leave Sugarhouse and get home to West Haven after occupationalContinue reading “The 9 Levels Of Transit”

I’m trying to do this whole thing using speech to text, because that’s something I have to get used to if I’m going to use technology more. It’s awkward because my writing voice is better than my speaking voice. I can take time with my writing to find the right words, cross something out andContinue reading “Testing, Testing, Is This Thing Working?”

We finally have progress on my treatment. I was assigned to the control group for the clinical trial which receives no radiation therapy and a continuation of chemo. It would mean seven or eight rounds and another two to three months. I decided to drop out of the trial and go with radiation treatments inContinue reading “Radiation Prep and Saying I Miss You”

The Good News The second attempt for my CT scan was problem-free. The results show the lymph node shrunk again from 1.4 cm to 1 cm. The oncologist says ideally it would be .5cm, and it seems like we’re on track to reach that goal. Those kinds of results keep me optimistic when chemo sideContinue reading “Newsworthy”

“Woah we’re halfway there.” Round seven of chemo is history, and round eight is almost over. They’ve both been on the higher difficulty, but I’m still surviving. Neuropathy has been the biggest thorn in my side. Okay, not my side but my lips, throat, mouth in general, nose, eyes, and fingers. Winter is in fullContinue reading “In The Words of the Sage Jovi”