Update on oggbashan's health

[oggbashan]

This morning was my CT scan to check whether I am still in remission. I don't get the results until mid-May.

But it was a pain in timing. I can't eat for two hours before the scan. I have to arrive an hour before the scan tie to drink a litre of water. That meant we left the house at 8 am when usually my wife and I are just starting to stir - we are owls, not larks.

The nurses took four attempts to get a cannula into my arms. I will have bruises.

This afternoon? Last of five medical appointments this week for my second Pfizer jab.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Sorry to hear all that, Ogg, but at least you’re still here to complain. That’s a victory in itself.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

Sorry to hear all that, Ogg, but at least you’re still here to complain. That’s a victory in itself.

nods in agreement and sends a virtual hug

 

[KeithD]

This morning was my CT scan to check whether I am still in remission. I don't get the results until mid-May.

But it was a pain in timing. I can't eat for two hours before the scan. I have to arrive an hour before the scan tie to drink a litre of water. That meant we left the house at 8 am when usually my wife and I are just starting to stir - we are owls, not larks.

The nurses took four attempts to get a cannula into my arms. I will have bruises.

This afternoon? Last of five medical appointments this week for my second Pfizer jab.

On the plus side, you're still alive, when you didn't think you'd make it to last Christmas.

I fully understand on the owl "thing." I normally don't get up until after 10:30 (that doesn't mean I've gotten eight hours of sleep). All matter of appointments do play havoc with that.

 

[oggbashan]

Hurrah! My wife and I have just returned from getting our second Pfizer jab. With attempts to put cannulas in both arms this morning, and the jab, I feel like a pincushion but no more medical appointments for three weeks...

 

[oggbashan]

Woo-Hoo!

Today I drove my car for the first time for 27 months. I had been advised to drive with caution and either with one eye shut, or wearing an eyepatch, but now I can see singly, I have been told I can drive again.

I drove a mile to my newsagents, paid my bill, and returned home parallel parking with no difficulty.

I was slightly nervous but it was easy.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Another victory! Good for you, sir.

 

[JamesMiehoff]

Hurrah! My wife and I have just returned from getting our second Pfizer jab.

Congratulations! I got my second one 3 weeks ago, so I am as Covid resistant as I am likely to get. I just wish the maskholes** around me would be as courteous and go get theirs.

James

**Maskholes - assholes that won't take the simple precaution of wearing a mask in public regardless of their vaccine status.

 

[Handley_Page]

Fingers crossed, Ogg

 

[oggbashan]

Fingers crossed, Ogg

Thanks, HP. Another birthday tomorrow. I didn't expect to see the last two.

Results of latest scan in ten days time...

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

Wishing you good results, ogg, and a slightly early Happy Birthday.

 

[oggbashan]

Oh shit! The cancer is back!

The results of the scan told to me this morning show an enlarged lymph node and small speck. Back to Chemotherapy.

I have had clear scans since December 2019, and that was an unexpectedly long break. What I have now is minimal. Chemotherapy will probably stop it again - for a while, but the long-term prospects aren't good.


But I have had 18 months I didn't expect to have and maybe another year or so...

 

[sirhugs]

The results of the scan told to me this morning show an enlarged lymph node and small speck. Back to Chemotherapy.

I have had clear scans since December 2019, and that was an unexpectedly long break. What I have now is minimal. Chemotherapy will probably stop it again - for a while, but the long-term prospects aren't good.


But I have had 18 months I didn't expect to have and maybe another year or so...

Best of luck.
In the long run, the prospects aren't good for any of us, but long may you run.

 

[oggbashan]

Best of luck.
In the long run, the prospects aren't good for any of us, but long may you run.

Thank you. I am long past the three score years and ten. Another year or so would be good.

But I have no symptoms, except for the unsteadiness when walking. The now ceased double vision and speech defects have been stopped by steroids. I have had no side-effects from the steroids, nor the chemo (except some hair loss but I kept most of it.)

 

[TarnishedPenny]

The results of the scan told to me this morning show an enlarged lymph node and small speck. Back to Chemotherapy.

I have had clear scans since December 2019, and that was an unexpectedly long break. What I have now is minimal. Chemotherapy will probably stop it again - for a while, but the long-term prospects aren't good.

But we've have had 18 months with you we didn't expect to have and maybe another bunch of years...

Fixed that for you.

Bet the horse, Ogg. Your track record is pretty amazing.

 

[oggbashan]

Fixed that for you.

Bet the horse, Ogg. Your track record is pretty amazing.

I know. My oncologist thinks I am her favorite patient and I confound her every time I see her (bearing a box of chocolates). Some of her colleagues told me to prepare to be dead by Easter 2018, then Summer 2018, and, and...

Now she and they have given up trying to predict.

 

[Handley_Page]

I know. My oncologist thinks I am her favorite patient and I confound her every time I see her (bearing a box of chocolates). Some of her colleagues told me to prepare to be dead by Easter 2018, then Summer 2018, and, and...

Now she and they have given up trying to predict.

Thoughts & Prayers, Ogg

 

[TxRad]

Ogg, you beat the worst they could throw at you the last time around. This should be a piece of cake. Uh, not your hat but the real stuff.

Keep giving them hell.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Sorry to hear that Mr Ogg, but you've got an impressive track record of keeping on going.

 

[KeithD]

Keep keeping on.

 

[oggbashan]

Keep keeping on.

I'll try. I seem to have more lives than Felix the Cat.

https://youtu.be/sxailD4Ofq4

 

[oggbashan]

My next Chemo session starts Monday. That was fast!

 

[Handley_Page]

My next Chemo session starts Monday. That was fast!

And please don't forget Breakfast afterwards ??
Fingers Crossed !

 

[oggbashan]

This afternoon:

Blood tests; Covid test; MRSA test; explanations (again) of possible side effects and a boring wait...

 

[Handley_Page]

This afternoon:

Blood tests; Covid test; MRSA test; explanations (again) of possible side effects and a boring wait...

Fingers still crossed.