Gary D.

[Ber Rabbit]

Well at least you can pluck duck butts with one hand Patience Mr. Type A, patience...don't they make drugs to help with the patience issue? Prozac? Valium? Better get whatever you need to snuff the desire to push that arm too much. You're temporarily out of service so get mad, get sad, get glad but get over it and take the time your arm says it needs to heal.
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[Gary D.]

I could swap arms but it would be a downgrade for you.
My tumor has my right arm paralyzed and swollen, worse than useless.

Recovery time expected in months but as long as I do recover I will be happy about it.

Very hard to deal with now though.

Get well soon Gary!

What did you do? I'm getting better how about you? This is the first time I've played by the doctors rules. It kind of scared me a bit. OK, A LOT!

Need anything?

Gary D.

 

[pipedope]

What did you do? I'm getting better how about you? This is the first time I've played by the doctors rules. It kind of scared me a bit. OK, A LOT!

Need anything?

Gary D.

I picked up a big, fat, aggressive large B-cell lymphoma with high propagation rate.
The tumor is in my upper right chest and is slamming the brachial plexus so my right arm is completely paralyzed.

The good new is this is one of the most treatable cancers with a very high cure rate.
Long slog though. Eight cycles of chemo (3 weeks per cycle) and the some amount of radiation.

I am very weak and often have to force myself to eat but I am still doing what I can every day.

Every day I wake in the morning and go to sleep at night is a good day.

 

[Gary D.]

Good luck with it and we'll be praying for ya.

After the radiation will you be able to light up the house at night?

Aren't the Golden Years becoming a Black Clowd.

Gary D.

 

[pipedope]

Good luck with it and we'll be praying for ya.

After the radiation will you be able to light up the house at night?

Aren't the Golden Years becoming a Black Clowd.

Gary D.

Thanks for the wishes and prayers.

Wrong radiation to make me glow but might some other interesting effects.

It may help to understand that I stuffed about 2 lifetimes of experience and travel in between age 12 and 30ish.
I have plenty left to do, especially in music and trumpet but also have no call for regrets.

Right now I am running a little similar to you in that I want to do a lot but can only do very little. In my case though I am very weak from the chemo and it is hard to eat enough, especially that first week after infusion.
For a few days to a week, everything tastes like chemical soup. Yuck!

I did manage a trip to the store and picked up some fresh fruit that helps a lot.

I hope you get well soon, we need men like you on the job.

 

[ArcticDiver]

Good Grief You Two! Are you trying to get in several years of anquish in one? Whatever. I wish you both well.

By the way, depending on what the doc tells me Thursday about the mass in my foot I may be down in Houston soon. How would I find you there Pipedope?

 

[Gary D.]

Went to the Infectious Disease Specialist today. He’s the same one who saw me in the hospital. I’m healing but he said it’s going to be a long road back. He reassured me that I would get back to normal activity but it may not be 100%. Enough so no one would notice but maybe not the same as I was before the infection.

Anyhow I’m back to being down and not using it much at all. He also restricted me to 5# max weight for at least the next two weeks. I asked him about trying a few push-ups now and then and he flippin laughed at me and summed it up in one word, “NO”.

He said he doesn’t think there is any serious long lasting damage left over but it is going to take time for my body to get rid of the fluid still in the arm. He said I need to be careful for about the next 6 months or so because I was still susceptible to be re-infected at this point.:11:

So it was good news and not so good news but no bad news. BUT I’M STILL GOING STIRR CRAZY. I can get out and do a few things but after 6 or 7 hours I’m down for the count.

I know I live in Idaho but I’m tired of being a couch potato. I’m over done and need to be removed from the oven.:mooner:

Gary D.

 

[Rick Inman]

Forget the push-ups, when will you be able to get back in the water?? (BTW, water temp was up tonight at Higgins - 37 degrees).

 

[redrover]

Went to the Infectious Disease Specialist today. He’s the same one who saw me in the hospital. I’m healing but he said it’s going to be a long road back. He reassured me that I would get back to normal activity but it may not be 100%. Enough so no one would notice but maybe not the same as I was before the infection.

Anyhow I’m back to being down and not using it much at all. He also restricted me to 5# max weight for at least the next two weeks. I asked him about trying a few push-ups now and then and he flippin laughed at me and summed it up in one word, “NO”.

He said he doesn’t think there is any serious long lasting damage left over but it is going to take time for my body to get rid of the fluid still in the arm. He said I need to be careful for about the next 6 months or so because I was still susceptible to be re-infected at this point.:11:

So it was good news and not so good news but no bad news. BUT I’M STILL GOING STIRR CRAZY. I can get out and do a few things but after 6 or 7 hours I’m down for the count.

I know I live in Idaho but I’m tired of being a couch potato. I’m over done and need to be removed from the oven.:mooner:

Gary D.

No good deed goes unpunished.

 

[pipedope]

I know I live in Idaho but I’m tired of being a couch potato. I’m over done and need to be removed from the oven.:mooner:

Gary D.

I hear you there.

I just got home from about a week in hospital.
My last chemo crashed my white cells and left me very sick.
When the fog in my head cleared a little I remembered to check my temperature.
The threshold for a trip to the ER is 100.5.
My temp was 103.

Talk about crazy, at first it was good to be taken care of but as the pain fades and my body started working again, I wanted to do more.
At least here at home I have my cats and computer.