The weather has been quite warm lately. Not good for my breathing, or for anything else for that matter. I had hoped to hold off on using the air conditioner, but I truly need to make myself as comfortable as possible, so its been on for a couple of days now.
I haven't even felt well enough to make it across the hall to visit with Evie.
The day before yesterday I had to have an MRI done of my spine. That whole ordeal took a lot out of me. They were backed up, and I had to wait for hours before even getting it done. Had 2 MRI's done... one without contrast, and one with. A total of nearly an hour and a half inside that noisy tube. Not fun. I know my oncologist wants to see if the metastasis is causing any nerve impingement, which might be causing the horrific leg pain I get sometimes. I don't see her again until the 9th of June, so it will be a while before I learn the results.
I spend a lot of time watching Netflix, and some television if anything good is on. I don't do much reading because my glasses aren't the best, and I need new ones. I do some coloring now and then to fill the time. Very fatigued, so I sleep a lot when I can. Usually a couple of hours at a time.
I wonder when the radiation treatments will start. It's going to be very hard to do that five days a week, especially with the summer weather. Will it help with the pain, I wonder?
I know this is all pretty boring stuff to be reading, but it's what my life is about right now, so it is what it is.
I have been fortunate with the two times they diagnosed a cancer on me. slice and dice and gone. I watched my beloved mother fight that crap for 3 years--she took everything the oncologists said at face value but still found a way to cope with the side affects until one day she decided enough was enough.
ReplyDeleteThat is not advice barb, just one woman's story. My advice is--as long as you feel you are a part of the medical team making decisions for you--then you will in your heart of hearts feel comfortable throughout the off gassing side effects. Look to recovery of a good quality of life and nothing else.
By the by through my extensive history with doctors--leg pain in 95% of the time nerve impingement usually somewhere between L3 & L5 but that's a whole 'nother ball of yarn/
Combination of heat and pain - that's a lot to handle. I say just give yourself a break and do what you can when you can. But yes, get some Ensure or Boost - you need the calories and nutrition.
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