Things have been really boring lately. I’m pretty happy about that. A few things have changed since I last sent out an update. The first thing is the end of my chemo treatments. The second is that I have returned to work part-time.
Things got really confusing in May. I was at chemo. I had eight more appointments for chemo and things were rolling along just like they have been since January. Then one doctor noticed that I had been having one kind of chemo in conjunction with radiation and the same kind of chemo in conjunction with the super expensive Revlimid, which I take at home. That kind of chemo is called Velcade. There is a maximum amount of Velcade a person can have in a year. I was at my limit so they cut me off. My chemo appointments were canceled, my Revlimid was reduced, and I was sent home to recuperate. I have a follow-up appointment in two weeks to confirm my remission. Oh. Didn’t I mention that they also took six vials of blood to evaluate me for remission? I also have to go in every six weeks to have my Borg implant checked.
After chemo ended I had an appointment with my primary care doctor. She was amenable to persuasion and allowed me to go back to work part-time. Her condition was that I not go back to work full-time until the oncologist says it’s OK. So far I’ve made it through two weeks. After six months of hanging around the TV and reading JV fiction full time, showing up at work and having people need things fixed is a big change. So I’m a little tired. At least I’m tired because I’m doing something rather than being tired because I’m drugged to the gills and anemic.
You might have heard that my god-daughter, Judy Beth, had a baby. His name is Nathan and he was born today at 3 a.m. I haven’t met him yet but there are pictures on Facebook. Jun was here for two days along with my cousin Theresa and her daughter Trista (who just finished Navy boot camp and is being deployed to Bahrain). I’m trying to decide whether or not to return to school. It’s difficult to imagine not being in school. Not having homework is nice, though.
That’s all the news that’s fit to print and that I can remember. I do have a column in this month’s Community Letter. I’ll post it (the newspaper) soon. There was a printing error and it’s being redone at the moment.
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