Update on oggbashan's health

[fifty5]

And yesterday's consultant suggested I should imptrove more over the next two to four months.

Three cheers for Ogg
HIP HIP
HIP HIP
HIP HIP

 

[Handley_Page]

To Tuesday next week, I have a scan before radiotherapy on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and the following Monday and Tuesday.

Apart from check-ups that should be it for some months.

Fingers firmly crossed , my friend

 

[oggbashan]

Oncology specialist advice about radiotherapy being done asap seems sensible.

I start radiotherapy tomorrow and will be finished next Wednesday. The NHS announced yesterday that they are suspending all non-urgent treatments from 1 April but I will be finished long before then.

It would be classed as non-urgent as it is palliative only to prevent a recurrence, not to treat the cancer I currently no longer have.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Good news, sir!

 

[Voboy]

Very good news.

Based on what I read from your fair shores lately, I'm thinking NHS avoidance would be a good thing right now unless your lungs are filling with fluids.

 

[oggbashan]

Very good news.

Based on what I read from your fair shores lately, I'm thinking NHS avoidance would be a good thing right now unless your lungs are filling with fluids.

It might be but our local hospital is very quiet at present. There are no confirmed Covid-19 cases within 30 miles (today!)

 

[R. Richard]

Best wishes!

 

[fifty5]

It might be but our local hospital is very quiet at present. There are no confirmed Covid-19 cases within 30 miles (today!)

Let's hope it - and you - stay as you are

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

that's wonderful news, Ogg!!!

 

[oggbashan]

First radiotherapy today.

It took me longer to change into the hospital gown and out of it than the treatment itself.

They have gowns marked as small, medium, large and extra-large. The extra-large was not really large enough! It was skin tight and I couldn't do it up. Why they bother when all the treatment is above the waist? I don't know.

PS. The hospital car park was half empty and we had a choice of disabled spaces. The area outside the cancer treatment centre was littered with used fag-ends despite prominent signs saying the whole hospital site is non-smoking.

 

[Handley_Page]

It took me longer to change into the hospital gown and out of it than the treatment itself.

They have gowns marked as small, medium, large and extra-large. The extra-large was not really large enough! It was skin tight and I couldn't do it up. Why they bother when all the treatment is above the waist? I don't know.

PS. The hospital car park was half empty and we had a choice of disabled spaces. The area outside the cancer treatment centre was littered with used fag-ends despite prominent signs saying the whole hospital site is non-smoking.

Keep up the good work, Ogg.

 

[oggbashan]

After-effects?

I was warned to prepare for some side effects - reddening/soreness of the skin at the site; sore throat; stomach upset; vomiting.

So far? The only effect has been as if had eaten too much of a medium-hot curry such as Madras. That goes away when I add food - and I like food!!

 

[oggbashan]

The second radiotherapy treatment was today. Less after-effects than yesterday. Instead of a medium-hot curry think a medium curry such as Jalfrezi.

I wonder what will happen after Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next week - the final three sessions?

After them, all other hospital consultants except oncology have either discharged me for being too healthy, or told me not to come back for six months. Respiratory consultant says that even when I had lung cancer, I was fitter and had better lungs than 99% of his patients. COVID (Care of the older person - formerly geriatric) consultant told me to go away because with my four-wheeled walker I'm faster than him, have better blood pressure, and am far too fit to see him. Earlier this year he said 'You're too fit and healthy - just dying!' His latest version omits the last two words.

At least they assume I will be alive in six months' time, which was not the prediction earlier this year.

It must be the thoughts, prayers and good wishes from people on Literotica that have had an impact. Thank you all.

 

[JamesMiehoff]

The second radiotherapy treatment was today. Less after-effects than yesterday. Instead of a medium-hot curry think a medium curry such as Jalfrezi.

I wonder what will happen after Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next week - the final three sessions?

After them, all other hospital consultants except oncology have either discharged me for being too healthy, or told me not to come back for six months. Respiratory consultant says that even when I had lung cancer, I was fitter and had better lungs than 99% of his patients. COVID (Care of the older person - formerly geriatric) consultant told me to go away because with my four-wheeled walker I'm faster than him, have better blood pressure, and am far too fit to see him. Earlier this year he said 'You're too fit and healthy - just dying!' His latest version omits the last two words.

At least they assume I will be alive in six months' time, which was not the prediction earlier this year.

It must be the thoughts, prayers and good wishes from people on Literotica that have had an impact. Thank you all.

Keep up the good work. Positive news at the moment is worth 10 times what it would have been 3 months ago.

James

 

[R. Richard]

It must be the thoughts, prayers and good wishes from people on Literotica that have had an impact. Thank you all.

Hey! I like to root for a winner!

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

Hey! I like to root for a winner!

Same here! Keep the good news coming, it’s answered prayer and good for the soul! Sending hugs, Ogg

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Hey! I like to root for a winner!

This!

 

[ElectricBlue]

It must be the thoughts, prayers and good wishes from people on Literotica that have had an impact. Thank you all.

The puffin looked on from the sixth rock. "I told you this perch was the best, I'm not giving it up for anyone."

A penguin looked up from the crowded beach below (social distancing hadn't kicked in just yet, so the beach remained open, unlike Bondi). "How did that bloody fish get up that high?"

 

[oggbashan]

I'm getting worried about the next three days of treatment. Will my hospital still be operational?

After those three days I will be staying firmly at home because I am a high risk person. But I don't want treatment to stop in the middle.

 

[yukonnights]

I'm getting worried about the next three days of treatment. Will my hospital still be operational?

After those three days I will be staying firmly at home because I am a high risk person. But I don't want treatment to stop in the middle.

Do you think it would be worthwhile to call ahead and ask if you could be given a decent face-mask? (There is some question whether or not the N95 standard disposable face mask is truly effective.) If no. Is there anyway for you to obtain a personal respirator equipped with HEPA filter cartridges? (these are the ones you see for construction workers.) If yes, be sure to get the most efficient HEPA cartridges.

For the safest option, a powered air purifying respirator is the best. It has a small HEPA filtered air pump with an air hose up to a full face-mask. This provides a positive pressure effect (basically leaking air out of the mask as opposed to a non-powered respirator that develops more of a vacuum and lets dirty air seep in.) It also protects your eyes — said to be another pathway into your body for the virus.

One reference puts the virus size @ 0.125 micron (check, because I don't know for sure)

Here are the different levels of HEPA filters: (The higher the number following "HEPA", the higher the level of filtration is optimum.)

HEPA H14: pass up 0.005% of 0.1 micron particles per liter of air.
HEPA H13: pass up 0.05% of 0.1 micron particles per liter of air.
HEPA H12: pass more than 0.5% of 0.1 micron particles per liter of air.
HEPA H11: pass a maximum of 5% of 0.1 micron particles per liter of air.
HEPA H10: pass more than 15% of 0.1 micron particles per liter of air.

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I wanted to josh you and say; The more we learn about you Ogg, the more clear it gets that you have always been a "high risk person" But don't get too cocky ~
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PS: Any chance some of your old military contacts could get their hands on a respirator for you? You've earned it.

 

[oggbashan]

The third radiotherapy went OK today and the scheduled appointments for tomorrow and Wednesday are on but times slightly altered by five or ten minutes.

The drive to and from the hospital was very quiet with much less traffic except a few obviously inexperienced cyclists wobbling all over the road.

At the hospital we had a choice of disabled car parking slots instead of my wife dropping me off while she searches for any space, anywhere.

 

[Handley_Page]

Thoughts & Prayer, IOgg

 

[oggbashan]

Thoughts & Prayer, IOgg

Thanks, HP.

They seem to be working.

The side-effects of radiotherapy?

Apart from after the first which made me feel for an hour or so as if I had eaten too much medium-hot curry - nothing, nada, zilch.

 

[KeithD]

Hoping you can slip in these next two days of therapy before the effects of the virus skyrocket there and then that you are left in peace at home for the duration.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

Thanks, HP.

They seem to be working.

The side-effects of radiotherapy?

Apart from after the first which made me feel for an hour or so as if I had eaten too much medium-hot curry - nothing, nada, zilch.

I was hoping you’d say that you can now fly and read minds. It would show the doctors what we all already know: that you’re a superhero.