Update on oggbashan's health

[oggbashan]

Fourth Chemo (of six) this afternoon. They had to put the cannula in my right arm because they were still worried about the extravasation in my left arm from chemo two, but they all came to look at my minor sore patch that is all I have left. It is virtually healed and about the size of a quarter of a dime.

It was a boring three hours because with my right arm immobilised I couldn't do much.

 

[sirhugs]

Fourth Chemo (of six) this afternoon. They had to put the cannula in my right arm because they were still worried about the extravasation in my left arm from chemo two, but they all came to look at my minor sore patch that is all I have left. It is virtually healed and about the size of a quarter of a dime.

It was a boring three hours because with my right arm immobilised I couldn't do much.

fantasize about a nurse story?

 

[oggbashan]

fantasize about a nurse story?

I've done a few but have no inspiration for more...

https://www.literotica.com/s/minibus
https://www.literotica.com/s/the-practice-bed
https://www.literotica.com/s/delivery-11
https://www.literotica.com/s/halloween-hitchhikers
https://www.literotica.com/s/lady-agnes-two-fiances
https://www.literotica.com/s/normandy-hospital

And a poem:
https://www.literotica.com/p/blue-dress-blues

 

[Handley_Page]

Fingers Crossed, Ogg

 

[dmallord]

Fourth Chemo (of six) this afternoon. They had to put the cannula in my right arm because they were still worried about the extravasation in my left arm from chemo two, but they all came to look at my minor sore patch that is all I have left. It is virtually healed and about the size of a quarter of a dime.

It was a boring three hours because with my right arm immobilised I couldn't do much.

Sent a prayer upward for you just now. Take care, friend.

 

[oggbashan]

Sent a prayer upward for you just now. Take care, friend.

Thank you. Went to my physio this afternoon. I know I have been beaten up but I will feel better for it tomorrow. But Ouch! now.

 

[oggbashan]

Not a good day. Started with low blood sugar levels but had to go out. Was intending to go on shopping but had to return home and rest. The combination of diabetes, chemotherapy and heat was too much.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Not a good day. Started with low blood sugar levels but had to go out. Was intending to go on shopping but had to return home and rest. The combination of diabetes, chemotherapy and heat was too much.

Not surprised! The heat alone is bad enough, and various meds make tolerance worse. A warning has been put out for people on SSRIs, for example.

Look after yourself.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Be good to yourself, Ogg.

 

[TxRad]

Watch that heat, it is killer. 104 here this afternoon. I'm staying inside.

 

[jsmiam]

Thinking about you ogg

 

[oggbashan]

Watch that heat, it is killer. 104 here this afternoon. I'm staying inside.

104 would kill me. It is only about 78 here but that is now too much for me and my medical problems...

Oh for my twenties when I would go surfing when the thermometer read well over 110.

 

[sirhugs]

Take care and hope thingd start to even out.

 

[oggbashan]

Another hot day when I am just surviving with more hotter days to come...

 

[jehoram]

104 would kill me. It is only about 78 here but that is now too much for me and my medical problems...

Oh for my twenties when I would go surfing when the thermometer read well over 110.

Those were the days. My tolerance for heat has also gone down the tubes. It's just a part of getting old. (I don't know if the meds I'm taking are partly to blame, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were.)

 

[oggbashan]

I saw my oncology consultant this morning (with my medical daughter there to interpret). The scan was taken after my second session of chemo - the fifth (of six) due tomorrow.

Even three weeks after he scan the report of the radiologist isn't yet available but the pictures were. The oncologist and my daughter reviewed them.

The enlarged lymph nodes have reduced appreciably and the lesion is about half the size it had been. Neither medic could interpret the brain scan but as far as they knew everything appeared normal except for my skull thickness - about 50% more than normal for an adult male of my size and age.

But I knew I have a thick skull. Maybe that's why 'woke' ideas do not penetrate....

We agreed to continue to the sixth chemo and then scan again...

 

[oggbashan]

My youngest daughter, a consultant specialist in terminal care, believes I am indestructible;

Copied from an earlier post on the Politics Board:


An example of ogg's indestructibility:

During the second session of this course of six chemo treatments the cannula bent and 500ml of the chemo drug went into my arm instead of the vein. That is called extravasation and can be very dangerous. My arm swelled from my elbow to my knuckles. It was the worst case they had had for ten years. Every person on the cancer ward had to come and see and multiple photos were taken.

Such extravasation usually causes the flesh of the arm to rot and peel off, needing skin grafts. But not ogg. I had two small clear blisters each about the size of a half-dollar, which went down within an hour with ice packs, leaving a sore area about the size of a dime.

I was asked to return within 48 hours to see what had happened to my arm. They didn't believe it.

My daughter sees several people a year with the type of lung cancer I have. Most don't survive more than a few months but I am still around three years later...


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[Smuttyandfun]

Keep fighting!

 

[Ashfordbloke]

Hang in there and keep fighting... if nothing else to prove to the Universe that it may eventually win but you are going down swinging and taking no sh@t from the disease!!
YOU are an inspiration...

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Hugs, Ogg!

 

[oggbashan]

Thanks for the good wishes.

I have another problem. Friday's pre-chemo check showed low blood pressure - 105/58.

I stopped taking the blood pressure tablets that evening. The oncologist and my daughter agree that was sensible.

Part of it is caused by slightly reduced weight; then chemo; and also the heat.

My daughter has given me a home blood pressure testing kit to see whether I can improve but chemo tomorrow won't help.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Chemo is always rough, and I'll keep positive thoughts and prayers your way.

 

[oggbashan]

Chemo is always rough, and I'll keep positive thoughts and prayers your way.

Chemo isn't rough for me - just boring. I have no real after effects except some tiredness.

Nausea, vomiting? I don't do that. I go straight from chemo to a full-scale meal, sometimes even Indian takeaway and I annoy the other chemo patients.

 

[Handley_Page]

Chemo isn't rough for me - just boring. I have no real after effects except some tiredness.

Nausea, vomiting? I don't do that. I go straight from chemo to a full-scale meal, sometimes even Indian takeaway and I annoy the other chemo patients.

May you long continue to do so, Ogg.

 

[oggbashan]

Off shortly for 5th chemo session (of six).