I see it has been a month since I've updated this blog. Considering this is a blog about cancer, I guess that's a good thing. Other than occasionally feeling tired I have had no more side effects or symptoms of any new cancer. It has been nice not having to go to the doctor, I must say. So, no more doctor appointment stress headaches, haha.
I decided yesterday to toss out The Mask. I've had it stored in a large black garbage bag ever since returning from the lake vacation, not really knowing what I was going to do with it and feeling ambivalent about tossing it. But then I looked at it yesterday and knew that it was bound for the garbage because I have no use for it whatsoever and I don't believe in keeping things just because they were important at one time or another. Honestly, what was I ever going to do with that ghastly device again anyway? It certainly had no relevance for anyone other than myself, and it pretty much was only a reminder of going through the daily grind of going through those radiation treatments and having a fried neck. So, it has been let go... good-bye to a contraption I only wish nobody else would ever have to experience, and may I never have the need for another one.
Hmm, maybe I should have run it over with the car first...
This blog follows my latest round of cancer and radiation treatments during the summer of 2010.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Giving Thanks
Doctor appointments keep coming... today I had an appointment with my eye doctor. That went well and he didn't give me a shot in my eye this time. Possibly down the road he might give me a steroid shot. Those have side effects of glaucoma and cataracts so he wants to delay that for as long as possible. Thankfully, no more doctor appointments for a while now, shew!
Today I got a nice phone call. It was from a nurse that I had at the cancer center. On Tuesday I mailed a thank you card to my radiologist, the nurses, and the radiation therapy team. In with the card I sent a photo of my mask with the painting of "The Scream" on it. She told me that they'd gotten the card and thought the mask was great. She said she herself didn't know the painting but many of them did and they were impressed. She said she would be showing the doctor when she saw him. That made my day, to say the least.
Today I got a nice phone call. It was from a nurse that I had at the cancer center. On Tuesday I mailed a thank you card to my radiologist, the nurses, and the radiation therapy team. In with the card I sent a photo of my mask with the painting of "The Scream" on it. She told me that they'd gotten the card and thought the mask was great. She said she herself didn't know the painting but many of them did and they were impressed. She said she would be showing the doctor when she saw him. That made my day, to say the least.
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