Mini health update

[randy_byers]

Because not everybody reads Facebook or sees all the posts there. By the way, today is the anniversary of my brain surgery. That means I've survived a year already -- longer if you consider the fact that I clearly already had the tumor when I had my first seizure in early August 2015

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[voidampersand]

A message to that glioblastoma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rEsVp5tiDQ

[randy_byers]

I like it!

[holyoutlaw]

I am not contained between my hat and boots.

[randy_byers]

Nor I!

[holyoutlaw]

Which is a small part of why I like you.

[randy_byers]

Meanwhile I've been trying to decide whether I *am* contained between my transducer arrays and slippers.

[gerisullivan]

One copy-editing correction: your last MRI was likely November 30th. Unless you've been time-traveling, in which case I trust you'll write the most amazing things about it....

I'm glad you're going to talk with your new oncologist about the nausea. It could certainly be the chemo, as side effects do tend to build up over time. And while the other people I've known who took it had minimal problems with nausea, but the info pages list it one of the side effects and says it can be severe. If that's what's going on, gosh, lucky you. (Not.) But whether it's that or something else, your medical team needs to know just how severe it's getting. I hope they come up with a treatment approach that gets it back under control without difficult side effects from other medications.

I support your decisions, whatever they are, when it comes to gutting it out on the chemo front, declaring yourself done, or anything else.

Onward.

[randy_byers]

Thanks for the copy-edit. Dates seems to be the thing I lose track of most easily these days

[fishlifter]

I kept meaning to check the anniversary of Syrgery Day. Glad it's gone, in all respects. Great news on the MRI, and good luck with chemo choices.

And thank you for prompting me to read the Whitman poem; I knew other quotes but had not seen that section or connected them as a whole.

[randy_byers]

Thanks for the reminder about the anniversary. I posted about it on Facebook when Denys reminded me yesterday, and I've added a note to the beginning of this post, because a year is meaningful in this context.