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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[randy_byers]

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

Way back in the dawn of pre-history, when I took my first dose of chemo while simultaneously undergoing radiation treatment, they told me that if I didn't suffer nausea the first time I likely never would. They felt that the severe nausea I experienced later was from the radiation. That's one reason I wondered whether it was taking a dose of chemo without Ondansetron (the anti-nausea drug) that opened me up to nausea going forward.

Back then, when the nausea from the radiation got bad enough that I complained, they prescribed another anti-nausea drug to use along with the Ondansetron. I no longer remember the name, but when I looked it up online at the time it turned out to be a medication also used to treat psychosis. It made me feel so zoned out and weird that I swore I'd never take it again. I think that was the point at which I figured out that if I upped my dosage of CBD it helped with the nausea. So I did that instead.

I could natter on endlessly about all this, but I'll stop there. It's tricky to figure out what's going on and what the right thing to do is, but I'll stumble forward in some fashion, I'm sure.