Well, I’m still on Palladia, fluid treatment, appetite stimulants and Prednoisone.
And I’m still here, even if my right eye no longer is. It’s a common outcome to radiation. So I’ve had to add partial blindness to my long list of surprises to adjust to. I do bump into things, so I have to be careful where I go.
Next month will be 1 year since I was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma. Just being here nearly a year later is a feat in the face of this most combative opponent.
For those of you concerned, I am not in any pain. Though I’m skinny as a scarf, I do manage to enjoy my food, just not as many times a day as in the past. And then there’s this pesty thing called “cancer wasting,” when the cancer steals the calories ingested from food for its own selfish purposes of growing like a beanstalk. Hopefully the Palladia is stealing Cancer’s oxygen supply so that it deflates like a burst balloon. Well, tis the season for flights of fantasy.
Jane sleeping in snow
When I’m not resting, I’m generally my old self, taking comfort in a human lap, and the fake snow under the Christmas tree, which by the way, has been the warmest place to be these days as winter temps have finally been giving steamy South Florida a break. (See photo).
Enjoy the holiday season, my friends!
