No more Chemo!

[alfredo]

They called today, said just get the blood work. I guess the combo of weight loss and low white blood cell count convinced them that it would do more harm than good.

[Solly Mack]

1. I'm happy for the no more chemo but the reasons

aren't the best. How are you doing?

[alfredo]

2. I'm doing ok. I will see how the blood work turns out.

How you doing?

[Solly Mack]

3. I'm better. Still unpacking. I hate unpacking.

I always want to get new everything when I move.

[alfredo]

5. Then there is all the crap collected over the years

[Solly Mack]

7. Tomorrow is 25 years married with all of it spent moving around every few years

- multiple countries, multiple states - yeah, lots of crap.

I am well on the way to ridding myself of a lot of it though. Sold off some items already. Parting with a 115 years old hand-crafted drop leaf soon. Keeping the 1860 rough made butcher table though. It's beautiful. Just a little beeswax every so often and everything in the house pales in comparison. Heavy, though.

Sending you hugs!

[alfredo]

8. I have so much cast iron here, it alters the rotation of the earth.

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My cast iron skillets are my babies.

My Jade trees are getting so big it takes two to carry them.

[alfredo]

11. My numbers are much better today. I'm done!

[Solly Mack]

13. Excellent! And the radiation?

[alfredo]

14. Had my last one Monday.

It was nice sleeping in.

Now the slow return to normal. I won't know the definition of normal until I reach it.

[Solly Mack]

16. I didn't know what to do with myself that first free morning.

I did enjoy having nowhere to go.

Normal is overrated.

[alfredo]

17. Normal is having functioning tastebuds.

[Solly Mack]

18. Oh, well. Not normal yet then.

[alfredo]

20. To dream the impossible dream

[alfredo]

19. Normal is toxic for the creative soul

[sinkingfeeling]

4. How many treatments are they eliminating?

[alfredo]

6. Just one

[sinkingfeeling]

9. That might be okay. Hope you start to heal soon.

[alfredo]

10. The healing has started in my mind.

I can't wait for the nausea to fade away. It only happens every few days, but it is a bother. I can feel the ball in my tummy, but it isn't bad enough to trot to the porcelain. It finally comes, it passes, and I feel so much better. I am still able to get down 4 cans of 2Cal, otherwise I am able to take the prescribed 5 cans

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. I'm so glad to hear this, my dear alfredo!

[alfredo]

15. Now the hard part is the waiting for results

[Mira]

21. Came here to check on how it's going

and I'm glad you got to skip a chemo, and are OK with that. I read something yesterday in a little booklet of different bits of life advice, some of them I tried and each of them worked (such as yesterday I soaked all rusty garden tools in apple cider vinegar, in a plastic sack, and it dissolved the rust) and then here is one for you:

Clothespin trick to calm you down:

If you're feeling anxious and need to relax get 5 clothespins, the kind that pinch really tight, and clip one to the tip of each finger of your left hand. right at the start of the fingernails. Keep them there for seven minutes. Then put them on the fingers of your right hand for another seven minutes. Pressure exerted to these nerve endings is know to relax the entire nervous system.
Do this first thing in the morning if possible, or before or right after any particularly nerve racking situation.

You know me well enough to not roll your eyes. You know I'm thinking of you and have no help to offer other than caring, a lot!
Hugs!

[alfredo]

22. Sounds like acupressure

They were right that the week after the last treatment is the worst. To me that means the radiation is still doing its job.

Thanks for checking in. By this time next week I should be in a better state.

[Mira]

23. Thank you for understanding

that is exactly what it is, and it may actually in a strange way help a little. Thinking of you every day and attempting to send healing light.

[alfredo]

24. I used preassure points to treat my migraines

The pain from the clothes pins probably stimulates the endorphins.