Comments | randy_byers: After the Heat

randy_byers

After the Heat

Feb 22, 2017 07:07

Yesterday was a milestone of sorts. I saw an oncologist (not my new neuro-oncologist, but a sweet old medical oncologist who is filling in now and then during a transitional period), and he gave me the okay to start my twelfth and final -- FINAL! -- round of chemo. Yes, friends, fourteen months (nearly fifteen) since the tumor was discovered, the ( Read more... )

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fishlifter February 22 2017, 16:32:01 UTC

Huge cheers for the end of chemo! And indeed for your continued plans to visit Europe next year, and all your writing projects.

There's so much I want to write to you about, and when I do I'll explain the latest time lag - but for now at least I can take the lazy route to saying hello by a quick comment here.

Hope the treatment goes out like a lamb...

randy_byers February 22 2017, 17:08:39 UTC

To quote Handel:

O, we like sheep.
O, we like sheep.

kate_schaefer February 22 2017, 21:53:39 UTC

Pedantic correction: All we like sheep...

randy_byers February 22 2017, 23:05:19 UTC

Even better! All these years we've been teasing my niece because we thought it was cute that when she was a little girl she thought it was a happy song about how the people had a fondness for sheep. None of us thought to question whether she had heard the line correctly. Not that it makes much difference; it just makes the line more poetic and inclusive.

Anyway, we weren't as smartypants as we thought we were.

johncoxon February 23 2017, 00:52:48 UTC

I would very much like to see you, if you come to the UK. Massive congratulations!

randy_byers February 23 2017, 04:20:15 UTC

I'm thinking of coming over for Follycon, but I have no idea if that makes any sense or not. Will you be going to that?

johncoxon February 24 2017, 10:49:00 UTC

I will definitely be at that, I think I might even already have a membership!

janeehawkins February 23 2017, 06:22:57 UTC

I hope you do pull together your FB and LJ posts. You've done some VERY fine writing about all of this.

randy_byers February 23 2017, 15:30:58 UTC

Bless you, Jane. We'll see what it looks like when I pull everything together.

anonymous March 12 2017, 17:22:49 UTC

Go Randy! 2018 it is then.
Pat C

randy_byers March 12 2017, 17:56:01 UTC

Wow, Pat! So happy to see you here! Sounds as though you've been through a health ordeal of your own, although I still don't know the details. Hope you're on the heal, and I look forward to seeing you next year.

anonymous March 12 2017, 18:53:15 UTC

I'm still not too with it at the moment but things are getting better.
Hugs
Pat C