No More Chemo and only 4 rads remain. So just a short note because it will affect me pretty much tomorrow and the next day.
Thanks for all your prayers and well wishes
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Today We Talk Medical
I have been asked a few times about the treatment I receive. So as I only have 1 chemo and 7 radiations remaining I thought I would explain the treatment
CHEMO: Chemo (Cisplatin) is giving with an IV. In my case they IV me with 1 liter of Sodium Chloride, that is followed by a bag of Cisplatin followed by another liter of Sodium Chloride. This process is a 5 hour process. I should mention that a couple of days before they draw blood to insure the kidneys can tolerate the poison. That is followed by an IV the next two days of Sodium Chloride to flush the pision from the body. The medial term is we want you "to piss like a race horse".
RADIATION: Radiation is given as you lay on a flat table with a plastic mask and a blanket and a machine rotatoes around the target are and shoots a radiation beam at the cancer. I have 35 treatments. I asked why 35 not 30 or 40. The answer is that over time the Drs have learned that Squamous cell carcinoma need 70 "grays" to kill it. Your body can tolerate 2 grays per day. Shazam 70 divided by 2 , carry the 1, add the 3 and it is 35 treatments. It was also explained that cancer cells are like the teenage boys and some girls that are after just one thing; reproduction! The cancer cell is not organized and if injured by the radiation it does not repair itself and the next dose kills it. Good cells if injured repair themselves.
It would only be appropriate for todays music selection that we here from a couple of Doctors First Dr John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8OacVjGr8o&feature=related
Now Dr Feelgood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IfEx6p4Ces
CHEMO: Chemo (Cisplatin) is giving with an IV. In my case they IV me with 1 liter of Sodium Chloride, that is followed by a bag of Cisplatin followed by another liter of Sodium Chloride. This process is a 5 hour process. I should mention that a couple of days before they draw blood to insure the kidneys can tolerate the poison. That is followed by an IV the next two days of Sodium Chloride to flush the pision from the body. The medial term is we want you "to piss like a race horse".
RADIATION: Radiation is given as you lay on a flat table with a plastic mask and a blanket and a machine rotatoes around the target are and shoots a radiation beam at the cancer. I have 35 treatments. I asked why 35 not 30 or 40. The answer is that over time the Drs have learned that Squamous cell carcinoma need 70 "grays" to kill it. Your body can tolerate 2 grays per day. Shazam 70 divided by 2 , carry the 1, add the 3 and it is 35 treatments. It was also explained that cancer cells are like the teenage boys and some girls that are after just one thing; reproduction! The cancer cell is not organized and if injured by the radiation it does not repair itself and the next dose kills it. Good cells if injured repair themselves.
It would only be appropriate for todays music selection that we here from a couple of Doctors First Dr John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8OacVjGr8o&feature=related
Now Dr Feelgood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IfEx6p4Ces
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
The Glowettes
Today was treatment number 26, nine to go. It isn't too bad when you just get Bar-B-Qued and no chemo. Actually when I see The Glowettes I wonder what would it be like to date a Glowette. I'm not available but I'm kind of liking the individual attention you get as they (at least two in case you realize what they are doing) carefully lay you on the table with a neck rest that only a sick person could like and then tuck you in for a 10 minute session with your head bolted to the table. Are these ladies PC? Would they use Frankenstein's built-in bolt or would it require extraction and a new mask? Would they on the first date try and lure you into the treatment room under the pre-text of let me show you my mask collection and then for fun bolt you to the table.
What about that first trip to Daytona to show off my new, 16 pound less body and my tan lines look like I have worn a berka without neck protection? Could this radiation be affecting my mind or have I always been sick in some sort of way?
IPOD Number 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YZpbYqOw4o This tells a great story, Sly and The Family Stoned
BONUS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H7OTa6ss1E
What about that first trip to Daytona to show off my new, 16 pound less body and my tan lines look like I have worn a berka without neck protection? Could this radiation be affecting my mind or have I always been sick in some sort of way?
IPOD Number 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YZpbYqOw4o This tells a great story, Sly and The Family Stoned
BONUS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H7OTa6ss1E
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Just Plain Lazy
MED UPDATE: Chemo 2/3 Radiation 24/35
Just lazy no other excuse, I missed yesterday and now I hurriedly try to make up. The next song on my IPOD is an absolute classic and can be interpreted in many ways as a lot of songs give that leeway to the listener. Today is bonus day because I want to present another song that is one of my all time favorites and took me a long time to find on the internet.
First my all time favorite, well OK so I have a few:
http://www.hounddoglorenz.com/hound_sound/theme_songs/index.php# select "Big Heavy" This a 1953 theme song of the Hound Dog, WKBW, Buffalo, NY
The second by the fabulous O'jays:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52z-RzXwPNI&feature=fvsr
Just lazy no other excuse, I missed yesterday and now I hurriedly try to make up. The next song on my IPOD is an absolute classic and can be interpreted in many ways as a lot of songs give that leeway to the listener. Today is bonus day because I want to present another song that is one of my all time favorites and took me a long time to find on the internet.
First my all time favorite, well OK so I have a few:
http://www.hounddoglorenz.com/hound_sound/theme_songs/index.php# select "Big Heavy" This a 1953 theme song of the Hound Dog, WKBW, Buffalo, NY
The second by the fabulous O'jays:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52z-RzXwPNI&feature=fvsr
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Still Counting
MED UPDATE: Only 2 weeks left and then the usual wait and see. Getting weighed tomorrow so I'll put buckshot in my pants.
Song Number 3 This Song is From Otis Redding and was released in 1965 but still holds true today. There is no doubt this song has many, many meanings to many but for me it is the daily trials and tribulations that we face. We just have no clue what tomorrow brings, we plan for tomorrow but that is not a given.
http://en.musicplayon.com/play?v=230074
PS Check Out This Blog, Its say's a lot more than just words: http://bsweasy.blogspot.com/2011/01/wal-mart.html
Song Number 3 This Song is From Otis Redding and was released in 1965 but still holds true today. There is no doubt this song has many, many meanings to many but for me it is the daily trials and tribulations that we face. We just have no clue what tomorrow brings, we plan for tomorrow but that is not a given.
http://en.musicplayon.com/play?v=230074
PS Check Out This Blog, Its say's a lot more than just words: http://bsweasy.blogspot.com/2011/01/wal-mart.html
Saturday, January 29, 2011
A Day Late but Still Playing
MED UPDATE: 23/35 rads done and 2/3 chemos. Got to eat had a bunch of stuff for supper and forced it down, easy to swallow but everything including water tastes bad. enuff
Music today is day 2 and the number 2 song is:
Imagine the year is ( 1955) for me and you are at the freshman dance and there she is: the only girl with her angora sweater and "THAT" look. Remember it's 1955 no MTV and Dick Clark was about a year away and there SHE is waiting to dance with me. With carefully applied Clearisil and hoping Paul Pimple doesn't bust a move I in my best James Bond manner I approach her. It takes seven songs to get near enough to her to blurt out a hi-pitched squeaky voice Hi would you like to dance, heart pounding like a bass drum. Of course she says "Not right now" and you wonder when when be the right time .. er 1959 maybe. Then you figure it out you were asking her sweater to dance and not her, so you wait and this song comes up and you see out of the corner of your eye Sam Stud, big shot senior on the way to ace you out, No way man she's mine and this time looking in her eyes you ask again and she says OK. Of course the prize really was if any of the angora stuck to your shirt after the dance. Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ghEYpD5B3o&feature=related
Music today is day 2 and the number 2 song is:
Imagine the year is ( 1955) for me and you are at the freshman dance and there she is: the only girl with her angora sweater and "THAT" look. Remember it's 1955 no MTV and Dick Clark was about a year away and there SHE is waiting to dance with me. With carefully applied Clearisil and hoping Paul Pimple doesn't bust a move I in my best James Bond manner I approach her. It takes seven songs to get near enough to her to blurt out a hi-pitched squeaky voice Hi would you like to dance, heart pounding like a bass drum. Of course she says "Not right now" and you wonder when when be the right time .. er 1959 maybe. Then you figure it out you were asking her sweater to dance and not her, so you wait and this song comes up and you see out of the corner of your eye Sam Stud, big shot senior on the way to ace you out, No way man she's mine and this time looking in her eyes you ask again and she says OK. Of course the prize really was if any of the angora stuck to your shirt after the dance. Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ghEYpD5B3o&feature=related
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Another Day Another Play
SCOREBOARD: Rads: 21/35 Chemo 2/3
I find a lot of relief in music. Can't play any instrument, cd player and radios work just fine except the newer ones with the 1 inch manual, can't read Spanish that well then found the English part is only three pages, (last line in case of emergency call a grandchild). I looked at my IPOD and noticed that it shows the plays per song. So I thought that might be something different and explain why that song is my favorite. Most reasons will be stupid to the normal person but to the abnormals that I hang around with it might make sense.
The number 1 is "Someone Exactly Like You by Van Morrison dedicated to my Leader and Savior Jesus Christ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIrJK19dADI
I find a lot of relief in music. Can't play any instrument, cd player and radios work just fine except the newer ones with the 1 inch manual, can't read Spanish that well then found the English part is only three pages, (last line in case of emergency call a grandchild). I looked at my IPOD and noticed that it shows the plays per song. So I thought that might be something different and explain why that song is my favorite. Most reasons will be stupid to the normal person but to the abnormals that I hang around with it might make sense.
The number 1 is "Someone Exactly Like You by Van Morrison dedicated to my Leader and Savior Jesus Christ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIrJK19dADI
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