Update on oggbashan's health

[oggbashan]

Oh, forgive me, Ogg. I forgot to give you sincere good wishes for 2020. Hopes and prayers that I’ll be able to say the same thing for 2021.

That is still unlikely but as an 'anomaly' I suppose it might be possible. The previous most optimistic forecast was possibly July/August 2020.

 

[yukonnights]

That is still unlikely but as an 'anomaly' I suppose it might be possible. The previous most optimistic forecast was possibly July/August 2020.

I'm going to choose to disbelieve, if you don't mind

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I'm going to choose to disbelieve, if you don't mind

Got yer six, YN. I refuse to give up hoping.

 

[jehoram]

That is still unlikely but as an 'anomaly' I suppose it might be possible.

From what you've been telling us, it seems like everything about this illness has been an anomaly. So what's one more?

I'm sure you'll do just fine with whatever you have left.

 

[bucksumgal]

From what I remember, you took time to get your affairs in order. That was the responsible thing to do. Since that's done, you will be able to relax and enjoy each new day you have. I know, it's not like you party, party, party from sunrise to midnight. Enjoyment can be as simple as the moment of gratitude for having another day.

Rejoicing with your news that you might have more than you thought you had a week ago. None of us knows how many days or hours we have. Especially not doctors!

 

[Hypoxia]

Hey Ogg, I can't find the lyrics online and I'm too lazy to excavate my stack of sheet music, so this is from memory: TALKING SOCIALIZED ANTI-UNDERTAKER BLUES, by Patrick Sky.

It happened about a year ago;
I saw a doctor in Ohio.
He told me that I really had it bad.
He said, "Child, your veins are turning blue
And emphysema's killing you."
He said at most, a year was all I had.

Well friends, as you can plainly see,
That scared the hell right out of me!
For a month or two, I really had the blues.
Then one day I happened to look
At the yellow pages in my phone book
Where I saw an ad that said, "Come in and choose!"

"Joe's Undertakers! We have lots
Of coffins, caskets, and burial plots.
We fix faces back the way they came.
Formaldehyde and alcohol;
We'll pickle you in Hadacol.
Black or white, to us you're all the same."

I went right in and sat right down
And pretty soon this man came 'round,
Said he wanted to take some measurements.
He measured me up and measured me down.
Measured me sideways and all around.
Measured ninety-eight thousand two hundred sixty-eight dollars and fifteen cents.

Well friends, as you can plainly see,
I'm healthy as anyone can be,
And that doctor, he just sits and wonders why.
So I looked at him and I said, "Doc,
Now this here may come as quite a shock -
But the truth is, I just can't afford to die."

The medical people don't always know what they're talking about.

They usually have a sheaf of statistics for backup. They know, on average, what any symptoms and signs indicate. But if I have one foot in a fire and the other on ice, I'm comfortable on average.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

I'm going to choose to disbelieve, if you don't mind

Ditto!!

 

[JamesMiehoff]

That is still unlikely but as an 'anomaly' I suppose it might be possible. The previous most optimistic forecast was possibly July/August 2020.

I'm gonna take the over on that the next time I'm in Vegas.

Best wishes for continued procrastination in 2020!

James

 

[oggbashan]

Today I had my fifth chemotherapy session. I had to wait 2.25 hours from my appointment time to the start. I was at the hospital from 1330 to 1900.


It is boring.


I shouldn't complain. I feel no pain from the procedure and have no side effects except losing hair on my head, but sitting that long is very frustrating. The battery ran out on my e-reader.

 

[OneAuthor]

Today I had my fifth chemotherapy session. I had to wait 2.25 hours from my appointment time to the start. I was at the hospital from 1330 to 1900.


It is boring.


I shouldn't complain. I feel no pain from the procedure and have no side effects except losing hair on my head, but sitting that long is very frustrating. The battery ran out on my e-reader.

Here's hoping that you continue to confound the experts.

 

[Handley_Page]

Today I had my fifth chemotherapy session. I had to wait 2.25 hours from my appointment time to the start. I was at the hospital from 1330 to 1900.

It is boring.

I shouldn't complain. I feel no pain from the procedure and have no side effects except losing hair on my head, but sitting that long is very frustrating. The battery ran out on my e-reader.

Boring, and sore on the bum.
My chemo ward was equipped with wide variety of DVD players and a set of 'phones.
I managed to catch up on several of the old Carry On films that tinme.

God be with you, Ogg.

 

[oggbashan]

Another oddity

I expected to lose my hair when I started chemo so I asked my hairdresser to cut it very short so I wouldn't block the family's plugholes.

I lost some of my hair after the first and second chemo sessions. The hair on my head and my beard thinned. My body hair was unaffected except from the pulling off of plasters on my arms after blood tests and the chemo cannula.

BUT - the hair on my head after five chemo sessions is now regrowing. That isn't supposed to happen. What is weirder is that hair is now growing on the bald patch I've had for a decade. Although short, I now have more hair cover than I've had for years.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Keep astounding 'em, Ogg. We're here cheering ya on.

 

[NotWise]

BUT - the hair on my head after five chemo sessions is now regrowing. That isn't supposed to happen. What is weirder is that hair is now growing on the bald patch I've had for a decade. Although short, I now have more hair cover than I've had for years.

Hmmm. Maybe they've crossed up the chemo cocktail with Dr. Jekyll's formula.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Typically anomalous, Ogg-style!

 

[Handley_Page]

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BUT - the hair on my head after five chemo sessions is now regrowing. That isn't supposed to happen. What is weirder is that hair is now growing on the bald patch I've had for a decade. Although short, I now have more hair cover than I've had for years.

When my wife was taking chemo, her hair not only grew back, but it was as a much better condition !

 

[fifty5]

I expected to lose my hair when I started chemo so I asked my hairdresser to cut it very short so I wouldn't block the family's plugholes.

I lost some of my hair after the first and second chemo sessions. The hair on my head and my beard thinned. My body hair was unaffected except from the pulling off of plasters on my arms after blood tests and the chemo cannula.

BUT - the hair on my head after five chemo sessions is now regrowing. That isn't supposed to happen. What is weirder is that hair is now growing on the bald patch I've had for a decade. Although short, I now have more hair cover than I've had for years.

So your condition plus its treatment has made you better than before!

Ogg, keep on socking it to 'em! Keep it up and you might live for ever!

All the best,
Roger

 

[yukonnights]

I expected to lose my hair when I started chemo so I asked my hairdresser to cut it very short so I wouldn't block the family's plugholes.

I lost some of my hair after the first and second chemo sessions. The hair on my head and my beard thinned. My body hair was unaffected except from the pulling off of plasters on my arms after blood tests and the chemo cannula.

BUT - the hair on my head after five chemo sessions is now regrowing. That isn't supposed to happen. What is weirder is that hair is now growing on the bald patch I've had for a decade. Although short, I now have more hair cover than I've had for years.

This brought a smile to me today, thank you for that

 

[SimonDoom]

I am joining in the chorus of people giving you well wishes and pulling for you in 2020.

 

[BelleCanzuto]

BUT - the hair on my head after five chemo sessions is now regrowing. That isn't supposed to happen. What is weirder is that hair is now growing on the bald patch I've had for a decade. Although short, I now have more hair cover than I've had for years.

I've heard of that a few times. And heard of formerly straight hair growing back in as curly (happened to a lady I work with), or slightly different colors. Chemo is weird, dude.

All in all, I'm very glad that you're having minimal side effects.

Count me in amongst those who're wishing you a good long time of defying the odds, and a short painless death when it comes.

 

[oggbashan]

Another oddity:

Last night I took my wife to a restaurant. For the past decade my hearing has meant that in a restaurant with background musak and conversation I couldn't understand what was being said to me. If I put my hearing aids in, all that happened was that the background became louder and I still couldn't understand.

But last night, in a restaurant we have been to many times, I could hear my wife clearly. The musak was just as loud, as were the conversations from the others around us.

Either my hearing has improved, or my brain is processing sounds better.

Odd. But I'm not complaining.

 

[Handley_Page]

Either my hearing has improved, or my brain is processing sounds better.

Odd. But I'm not complaining.

Brain processing, or so I was told, Ogg.

Thoughts & Prayers, mate.

 

[oggbashan]

about time

I will continue to complain about literotica most banned racist poster - while I still can.

 

[JamesMiehoff]

Another oddity:

Either my hearing has improved, or my brain is processing sounds better.

Odd. But I'm not complaining.

The chemo is killing the funk that lived in your ears.

I thought I was going deaf a few years ago but never said anything. Got a case of bronchitis and they put me on antibiotics and my hearing cleared up. Apparently I had a mild ear infection for years.

I sometimes wish it would work on my wife, but then I would probably have to explain myself when I mutter things like, "Just suck me off" and "Spread 'em Lady" when she pisses me off.

James

 

[oggbashan]

This morning I had a haircut and beard trim. Although my hair is still very short it is growing, even one the part that has been bald for over a decade. It was straggly in places. The amount cut was very small compared to before chemo and I had it drastically shortened before that started but why, when I lost hair after the first two sessions of chemo, is it growing again?