December? Already!: Wednesday, December 02, 2009
I just can’t believe it’s December already … where the hell did summer and fall go? Maybe I’ve been just too busy to see it pass by. You think so?
Well treatment the last few days has been ok … running later then normal, but fine. It appears that every time they (the proton center), shut down for a few days (like over Thanksgiving), that it takes a few more days to get things running smoothly again. Not sure why that is, but there’s definitely a pattern forming.
I’ve been trying to get a photo of my back taken but the nurses at MGH have been so busy since I’ve returned that I haven’t seen or felt an appropriate time to ask one of them to do it. And somehow, I just can’t get the camera lined up properly myself.
It’s an interesting mark that the treatments have left … which I assume will dissipate in time, but definitely worth archiving. The best I can tell is, that it looks really nasty … but it really doesn’t hurt … maybe like a light sunburn. Looks much worse then it feels. Otherwise, I’ll ask Sher to photo it for me and post it over the weekend.
Treatments just gets harder to deal with every week. It’s not that the treatments are worse, or that I feel any sicker. It’s not that my living quarters aren’t great … because they’re the best. It’s not anything like that at all … what it is, is that waking up everyday to face the same thing over and over is getting old. Imagine if you had a doctors appointment … everyday, and that it took hours to complete … wouldn’t that be a pain in the butt? Somehow it just seems to absorb my entire day, energy and life.
Of course, most folks coming through the proton center are only getting a few treatments. Many are also getting chemotherapy or some other radio therapy too. That’s one of the reason that I seem to never see the same people here too. I don’t think anyone here at this time is going for the full 43 treatments like I have … or if they are, I haven’t seen or met them.
Tomorrow I expect to see Doc D. and have a full queue of questions for him about the near future.
Tomorrow night I’m hopefully having dinner at a small place called Addis, Red Sea. It’s an Ethiopian Restaurant on Tremont St. in Boston. I’m excited about that! … sounds like a fun place to eat. Here’s a link to their menu. http://www.addisredsea.com/
Well, that’s all I have to post for the time being … isn’t that great! I’m feeling pretty well considering, and soon I’ll be back in Vermont … and after that, only one more week!
