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Mike/Nord

dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
edited August 2017 in General Discussion
Whats going on? How are you doing?
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  • nordnord Member Posts: 6,106 ✭
    edited November -1
    Dave,

    Thanks for asking and the concern. Before I answer I'll ask the same of you? You're always in my thoughts and prayers. I hope you know that.

    Me? Chemo destroyed my lymph system below the waist. I start the day doing well and try to at least do half a mile of walking. By noon things are going downhill as a rule, but I can still function, albeit slowly and carefully. I feel crappy and I'm weak. Very frustrating, but it goes with the territory

    The pain I'm told I should have, I simply don't. I'm well aware that I'm sick but all I have to do is look around at those who have (or are) going through the same thing. They're dying. Here I am with nothing but a low dose steroid twice a day and here they are with more poisons and drug upon drug to alleviate the side effects of everything else.

    Hospice interviewed me last week in an effort to discover why my case seems so different than others. My nurse schedules me for her last visit of the day because she tells us that I'm the only bright note of all those she serves. Certainly I could cry about my situation, and I've done much of that, but when I look around and realize the gift I've been given, then I celebrate and attempt to share with and support others.

    If I'd have listened to those who "know", my prognosis for mere survival was about fourteen months after diagnosis. Survival, not living! By all accounts I should be on the brown side of the grass several months ago, yet here I am in better shape than even those responding to chemo or beginning their journey into hell. Why?

    I'm truly and richly blessed.

    LIVE!
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  • nordnord Member Posts: 6,106 ✭
    edited November -1
    Barz...

    I hope you got my personal message and that you understand there was no animosity intended. I thank you for caring.

    LIVE!
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Same thing as forever. Pain and more pain. Now i am passing out for no reason. Before i could tell when i was going to go down i would get dizzy.

    Now i am just dropping. Everything will go black and i collapse. I see my endo dr next week. Maybe he has an idea.

    Just tired of hurting. They took me off of Morphine er and put me on oxycotin. That is not helping as much as i hoped.

    Prayers asked for Mike/Nord for you and yours.
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