7/13/22

It’s Wednesday and this is a pretty good day. I saw my oncologist this morning and David went with me. She had the results of all of my tests including the MRI of my foot I had done yesterday at 5 o’clock. No cancer shows up anywhere. None. I have something screwy in my foot and I’ll find out about that tomorrow morning when I go to the podiatrist. I am still on my scooter or my wheelchair. I have not put any weight on my right foot since July 4. The oncologist took me off my cancer medicine because it’s making me feel like I am drugged. We’re going to try something new in a few days, when my head clears up. I will not see her again for a month, instead of going every two weeks for bloodwork. My white count went down to 2.6, so that’s not good. It’ll come back now that I’m not on this medicine anymore. 

She could see the blood clots in my lungs and showed me a picture of my lungs where it’s damaged. That’s why it’s a little hard to breathe. David got to see it, also. So, this was a very good day. I had a lot of tests done because she thought it had spread. But, it has not and she told me to go about my life. The only place she didn’t look was my brain, and that’s a common place for my type of cancer to go to next, but she said she was going to wait because she didn’t see any need to do it. I guess I’m already crazy. My friends think so. If my brain ever really does screw up, no one‘s going to know it. 

For instance, when you take a shower, you wash yourself pretty much automatically. You go through the same routine every shower, it’s a habit. I guess that’s good, because if we didn’t, we would probably end up missing a lot of spots. So, last night I took a shower. I dried myself off, then stepped out of the shower onto the rug to dry my feet. I only put the weight on 1 foot, and that’s kind of awkward. However, while I was drying my feet, I got to wondering if I had washed my back. I could not remember washing my back. So, do I get back in the shower to wash my back? Do I just go to my appointment with a dirty back? How dirty can my back be? I just lay around all day. I decided not to get back in the shower. So, all day, I’ve been wondering if I washed my back. That’s how my brain is working. So, as you can see, no one is going to notice if I get cancer in my brain.  

I’ll let you know how my appointment goes at the podiatrist tomorrow, and if he is going to let me walk again. Tomorrow could be a good day, also.


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  1. Shelley RenakerJuly 13, 2022 at 2:35 PM

    Patty, great news about not seeing any cancer in todays testing! Awesome!

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