Just started a course of Chemo therapy as an aid to Radio Therapy. Four days of 5FU with Folinic Acid, Dexmethasone and Ondansetron together with a daily dose of gamma radiation some four hours after the infusion of the various jungle juices.
Then 23 more days of radiation each and every day except weekends and of course the occasional Wednesday when they have to bring the machines off line to maintain them and then three more days of radiation once again proceeded with the Chemo therapy regime.All in all 30 days of gamma radiation.
I suspect that I will forever after this be easy to locate anywhere on the planet - all people will need is a Gieger counter. (Wasn't there a comic book where the hero got excess gamma radiation and was transformed into the incredible Hulk?)
I suspect that I will forever after this be easy to locate anywhere on the planet - all people will need is a Gieger counter. (Wasn't there a comic book where the hero got excess gamma radiation and was transformed into the incredible Hulk?)
Apparently the chemo is supposed to increase the effectiveness of the radiation treatment by 10% (according to the literature)
So it's back to the regime of having few white cells left and so being exposed to any and all germs in my environment, with no resistance, I suspect that what little hair I had left from the last time will once again fall out and will require beanies during the winter. Still there is an up side - it reduces hair cutting costs which have gone through the roof!
The one good thing so far that I have noticed is that the dexmethasone being a steroid is actually helping to deal with the arthritis that appears to be settling in - what a pity that it will only be for four days!
My one vocal chord is having a stressful time because I am trying to give it instructions to learn from the experience of Nana Mouskouri who apparently had only one vocal chord and still managed to make some fabulous music.
My chord tells me that it's not the same thing. In the first place I have both the chords left intact it's just that one cannot perform as the controls to the nerves have been cut, second that I am not a woman and thus cannot multitask and third and most important I lack her talent.
My chord tells me that it's not the same thing. In the first place I have both the chords left intact it's just that one cannot perform as the controls to the nerves have been cut, second that I am not a woman and thus cannot multitask and third and most important I lack her talent.
It's cruel when your body can actually argue with you and given the inability to vocalise you cannot argue back! (maybe it's the chemo talking)
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