Journal RM6f9's Journal: Life happens (RANT) 6
Well, lessee...
In addition to being laid off from work in Oct, what else has happened here?
Back surgery for yours truly turned out to be a poorly timed blessing: The two ruptured disks have been repaired, the pain that had been my evil siamese twin for the last year plus is (thankfullly) gone - unfortunately, apparently, so is the ability to flex my left foot dorsally, resulting in a clumsy walk and the occasional trip and fall relatied to toe-drag. General anesthesia is a real experience - like throwing a hibernate switch on the brain, one second wide awake watching a needle go into the IV line, the next, they're removing a mask in the recovery room, ZERO memories between the two. Recovery continues, will take approx. 6 months to get anything like my former strength returned.
My wife is facing what may be her third bout with cancer - from hydro-nephrosis in September, through the prior three months of tests (Labs show slightly elevated kidney function and tumor marker; wait two weeks for CT; CT showed a lesion in the spleen, wait 2 weeks for ultrasound; ultrasound shows lesion non-water-based (but nothing visibly in lymph nodes), wait 2 weeks for PET; PET showed increased metabolic rate in the lesion, meanwhile labs show OCA tumor marker highest since original dagnosis (My friends of the bio-female gender - if it isn't there, ask your Dr. to add the OCA-125 test to your annual bloodwork - it can save your LIFE!)); Finally (after changing oncologists) we get one willing to try to help, chemo seems best, starts 2nd Jan - Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, here come 18 weeks of alopecia and bone pain, then more tests to see if we need to plan for recovery/remission or some other prognosis...
If there were any Cosmic Justice, the TRULY bad shit (cancer) would be happening to *me* - Don't mistake me, I'm hoping there is a God, because He's got some serious 'splainin' to do, and the way things are going right now, I want one shot at kicking Him in His Infinite NUTS before I tumble into the eternal flames where most of my friends and family will be...
I could *really* use a win right now... I'm tired of losing...
Holy Crap! (Score:2)
Best wishes to you, this too shall pass.
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Deliver the wins, Infinity-Boy, or I'm gonna stomp on those Nuts with BOTH size 14 feet while wearing hob-nailed boots.
(lest anyone think I'm not doing my part, I've licensed a business for on-site PC rescue, donated hours to various organizations to put the word in the streets - so far, zero, zip, zilch, nada: On the wife front, I've done
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My heart goes out to you and your wife -- I hope that you find your reserves of strength, faith, and love are deeper and more powerful than you had ever imagined.
That said, I would also like to mention that exercising can help make you the stud that *you* deserve to *be*.
You & your wife will be in my thoughts -- all the best to you both.
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disks (Score:1)
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Thank you for the tip on another web resource for her.