Update on oggbashan's health

[oggbashan]

I have to take insulin and that's where I inject. I'd rather do that than a finger stick. But maybe that's just me.

I am Type II and tablet controlled. Until I started chemotherapy my signs were improving. Eighteen months ago I was close to moving to insulin injections. Until I started chemo it looked as if I could reduce the tablets but one of the side effects of the various chemo drugs is that they will temporarily increase my blood sugar levels for a day or so.

So far, so good...

 

[Handley_Page]

Fingers crossed

 

[oggbashan]

First injection delivered without any problems but the leaflet about side effects is longer than many long Literotica stories and in tiny print.

 

[Javahead]

Lol. Or you might meet a nurse like me, and she’ll be critiquing the heck out of your stories and offering to edit them and throwing in plot bunnies.

Speaking of which, one of my early readers who was very old and rather charming in his emails ended up in hospital. I was writing him in to one of my stories and sending him drafts as I wrote- he got too ill to work his laptop himself and his family were reading him his emails - I got a rather funny letter from his daughter asking me to stop - apparently I had rather shocked a lady who was coming in to read him stuff. But after he got out of hospital he picked up again.... it was one of those moments....

Chloe, the naughty nurse - no costume needed?

It seems a lot of younger people like to think that their parents and grandparents are completely asexual. Evidence suggests that reality is somewhat otherwise.

 

[oggbashan]

First injection delivered without any problems but the leaflet about side effects is longer than many long Literotica stories and in tiny print.

Despite the dire warnings, no side effects experienced - so far.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Despite the dire warnings, no side effects experienced - so far.

Good that there are no side effects; better that there are the intended effects.

May you continue being stronger than all that's thrown at you.

 

[oggbashan]

Not a good day - tired all day and sleeping in a chair or in bed except for few posts here. Also felt cold when real temperature isn't.

Was warned that extreme tiredness might be a common effect of chemotherapy but today was the first example.

I have been unable to concentrate to continue with part-written stories. That is annoying because I have so many left to finish.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

Not a good day - tired all day and sleeping in a chair or in bed except for few posts here. Also felt cold when real temperature isn't.

Was warned that extreme tiredness might be a common effect of chemotherapy but today was the first example.

I have been unable to concentrate to continue with part-written stories. That is annoying because I have so many left to finish.

Hugs, Ogg.

Don't know if it helps but if there's anything you would like edited or beta read, I have time today and would be happy to do it.

 

[oggbashan]

Hugs, Ogg.

Don't know if it helps but if there's anything you would like edited or beta read, I have time today and would be happy to do it.

Thanks, but no thanks. I need to be able to write and haven't got the energy, today. Another hospital visit tomorrow and I hope taking it easy today will have helped.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

Thanks, but no thanks. I need to be able to write and haven't got the energy, today. Another hospital visit tomorrow and I hope taking it easy today will have helped.

Thinking of you and praying for a good visit tomorrow. Hope you get a lot of rest today!

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Thanks, but no thanks. I need to be able to write and haven't got the energy, today. Another hospital visit tomorrow and I hope taking it easy today will have helped.

Still cheering, still praying for you, Ogg.

 

[Athalia]

What can I say that hasn't already been said? I wish you the smoothest of journeys to whatever awaits you. You may surprise yourself, and the doctors. But even if you don't, you've had a life well spent.

I have always felt I had a particular bond with you, mostly because your writings and posts remind me of my time in England, a time when I really started to discover who I was. I'm still very much an Anglophile, even though I haven't been back in decades. But if I were to return, you would be one person I would definitely look up.

Continue to keep us informed, please.

 

[JamesMiehoff]

Thanks, but no thanks. I need to be able to write and haven't got the energy, today. Another hospital visit tomorrow and I hope taking it easy today will have helped.

That is probably the easiest and most frustrating part of the chemotherapy. Don't fight it. Just rest. Your body knows what it needs.

If prayers and wishes are of any benefit, you have as many of both as I have to give.

James

 

[ChloeTzang]

Thanks, but no thanks. I need to be able to write and haven't got the energy, today. Another hospital visit tomorrow and I hope taking it easy today will have helped.

Big hug, and yeah, take it easy. Your body tells you what it needs and chemo is physically really taxing so don’t even think about pushing it. Just relax and go with what your body’s telling you it needs.

 

[oggbashan]

Thanks to all.

Yesterday, Monday, was better after a sleeping Sunday. I went shopping with my wife, had yet another hospital visit to another consultant who is very pleased with my progress so far. He doesn't expect any result from the chemotherapy until December but I am still fitter than he thinks I should be.

I had another blood/oxygen check with a device on my finger. The nurse wouldn't accept the first two results of 100% which are ridiculous for someone with lung cancer. She kept trying until she found a finger that read 97%. Even that is well above the expected result. My blood sugar levels from Type II diabetes are slightly raised which happens with chemotherapy but still OK; as is my blood pressure and my weight has stayed the same.

After the hospital visit, we did some more shopping and I managed to add a few lines to one of my Christmas story drafts.

 

[rutger5]

Keep doing what you're doing and confound them all. As this thread demonstrates you have a lot of people in your corner cheering you on.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Hugs, Ogg.

 

[Sammael Bard]

Get well soon, Ogg. You have stories to write.

Thanks to all.

Yesterday, Monday, was better after a sleeping Sunday. I went shopping with my wife, had yet another hospital visit to another consultant who is very pleased with my progress so far. He doesn't expect any result from the chemotherapy until December but I am still fitter than he thinks I should be.

I had another blood/oxygen check with a device on my finger. The nurse wouldn't accept the first two results of 100% which are ridiculous for someone with lung cancer. She kept trying until she found a finger that read 97%. Even that is well above the expected result. My blood sugar levels from Type II diabetes are slightly raised which happens with chemotherapy but still OK; as is my blood pressure and my weight has stayed the same.

After the hospital visit, we did some more shopping and I managed to add a few lines to one of my Christmas story drafts.

 

[SolarRay]

I wanted to say how much respect I have for you, Ogg, for sharing this process so openly and bravely with everyone here. Having received much from your sharing of wisdoms within this community, I very much hope that you receive all the comfort and support that everyone here is able to provide. Wishing you the best with your ongoing medical visits and your incredible commitment to the writing process!

 

[oggbashan]

Thank you, SolarRay.

Most of my local friends and acquaintances know my situation and accept 'He's OK, just dying'. But some of the younger ones aren't so sure.

Most of my friends are of an age when dying isn't a distant prospect and they have dealt with the death of a close relative. To them, dying is inevitable. But the younger people seem to think they (and I) are immortal perhaps because I have been around all their lives and they can't imagine that I will soon be gone.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

Hugs, Ogg I hope rest and relief comes easy today, along with a few more lines of writing.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Yes, Og,

Few of the young realize the truth in the old Irish song's refrain - "Always remember, the longer you live, the sooner you bloody well die."
(Though, as I've said before, your name here - Og - is Irish for "young." Tir na nOg is the land of the immortally young).

Most of us would rather avoid it, but that's not quite possible. The best we can do is accept it as an essential part of life, and you're setting an example of how we should deal with it. Thank you for your graciousness.

 

[oggbashan]

Hugs, Ogg I hope rest and relief comes easy today, along with a few more lines of writing.

Rest? What's that? I have just returned from giving three large boxes of books to a charity bookshop and visiting the local supermarket with my wife. The youngest daughter and our youngest grandchild will arrive in the next quarter of an hour for the weekend so the house will be busy and noisy.

This morning three local friends and one of my sons-in-law dropped in for a cup of coffee and a chat.

In between I have managed a few lines of writing.

I am up and down stairs at least thirty times a day and go for a walk with my four-wheeled walker several times as well. I will NOT use a wheelchair or a powered buggy because as long as I can I want to keep mobile.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

Rest? What's that? I have just returned from giving three large boxes of books to a charity bookshop and visiting the local supermarket with my wife. The youngest daughter and our youngest grandchild will arrive in the next quarter of an hour for the weekend so the house will be busy and noisy.

This morning three local friends and one of my sons-in-law dropped in for a cup of coffee and a chat.

In between I have managed a few lines of writing.

I am up and down stairs at least thirty times a day and go for a walk with my four-wheeled walker several times as well. I will NOT use a wheelchair or a powered buggy because as long as I can I want to keep mobile.

I’m glad to stand corrected! Enjoy the day!!

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Thank you, SolarRay.

Most of my local friends and acquaintances know my situation and accept 'He's OK, just dying'. But some of the younger ones aren't so sure.

Most of my friends are of an age when dying isn't a distant prospect and they have dealt with the death of a close relative. To them, dying is inevitable. But the younger people seem to think they (and I) are immortal perhaps because I have been around all their lives and they can't imagine that I will soon be gone.

Ogg, they’re not entirely wrong. When the actors shuffle off the Bard’s stage, what remains is the play and neither the play nor the memories of the play nor the memories of the actors ever pass away.