Radiation therapy course finishes this morning! YAY!!!!
My second 21 days of Ibrance began mid-week after 7 days free of the demon pill. Oddly enough the loss of appetite and nauseous feelings increased during that 7 days off - I was expecting the opposite. I really need to be eating more. I'm oncologistless at present, so I asked one of the senior nurses about the nausea. She very kindly sent a couple of prescriptions to be picked up - 2 different nausea medications specifically for problems caused by chemotherapy and other cancer-related therapies. One of these medications worked a treat on the first trial, not as well the second time - but I'm to take them alternately, and for a particular reason didn't do that initially- better luck next time, I hope.
On the medical marijuana front, I have an appointment at a local MM dispensary late tomorrow afternoon (I managed to get their last appointment - my stars must have been aligned!) I'll see a visiting physician who will (I hope) give me a recommendation letter to send to the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, so as to get me an MM Card. That card will enable me to buy product at any dispensary in the state. This appointment will cost me $75, a little cheaper than expected, and because I'm on Medicare the cost of the MM Card will be just $20 (as against $100 for those not on Medicare or Medicaid.) Around 10 days, after sending (online) proof of identity, residence, the recommendation letter, with a digital photograph of myself, and my Medicare card + the dosh, all to the OMMA, I shall hope to be set up to buy something which might help on several fronts.
And now for something completely different....
I'm calling on Ian Lang of Quora to provide a lighter note. As any regular readers will remember, Ian has very kindly given his blanket permission for me to use his writings on my blog. Here's what he had to say - waxing all poetic for a change - in answer to this question.
What do British people think of Boris Johnson as their PM?
Non-British readers will likely need a translation of "soss" : it's short for sausage; and should any readers in the USA be thinking of 'chips' as known in their world (= a bag of crisps in the UK), chips are something akin to steak fries in the United States - certainly not like French fries which are way too skinny for their own good!
So:
My second 21 days of Ibrance began mid-week after 7 days free of the demon pill. Oddly enough the loss of appetite and nauseous feelings increased during that 7 days off - I was expecting the opposite. I really need to be eating more. I'm oncologistless at present, so I asked one of the senior nurses about the nausea. She very kindly sent a couple of prescriptions to be picked up - 2 different nausea medications specifically for problems caused by chemotherapy and other cancer-related therapies. One of these medications worked a treat on the first trial, not as well the second time - but I'm to take them alternately, and for a particular reason didn't do that initially- better luck next time, I hope.On the medical marijuana front, I have an appointment at a local MM dispensary late tomorrow afternoon (I managed to get their last appointment - my stars must have been aligned!) I'll see a visiting physician who will (I hope) give me a recommendation letter to send to the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, so as to get me an MM Card. That card will enable me to buy product at any dispensary in the state. This appointment will cost me $75, a little cheaper than expected, and because I'm on Medicare the cost of the MM Card will be just $20 (as against $100 for those not on Medicare or Medicaid.) Around 10 days, after sending (online) proof of identity, residence, the recommendation letter, with a digital photograph of myself, and my Medicare card + the dosh, all to the OMMA, I shall hope to be set up to buy something which might help on several fronts.
And now for something completely different....
I'm calling on Ian Lang of Quora to provide a lighter note. As any regular readers will remember, Ian has very kindly given his blanket permission for me to use his writings on my blog. Here's what he had to say - waxing all poetic for a change - in answer to this question.
What do British people think of Boris Johnson as their PM?
Non-British readers will likely need a translation of "soss" : it's short for sausage; and should any readers in the USA be thinking of 'chips' as known in their world (= a bag of crisps in the UK), chips are something akin to steak fries in the United States - certainly not like French fries which are way too skinny for their own good!
So:
What do British people think of Boris Johnson as their PM?
I think unlike John Masefield, I’ll stay away from the sea
And focus all my wishes on soss ’n’ chips for tea.
I think I’d not like to be at work in summer’s hot enthrall-
I think that is much better though, than watching the football.
I think I really can’t be arsed, with who it is in charge;
Johnson, Corbyn, Hunt, Leadsom, or that bloke Farage.
For I think that in some future age, it will be so much fooey.
In five billion years, as well we know, the sun will go kablooey.
And all that we have said and done and all our silly rhymes
Will be vapourised. Including those with lines that don’t suit the rest of the metre and aren’t made into couplets.
I think then, that we should not dwell on our human worries of toss,
Yet cast our minds to glorious times, when there are chips, and soss.
And splendidly, egg as well, if you’re lucky.
I think unlike John Masefield, I’ll stay away from the sea
And focus all my wishes on soss ’n’ chips for tea.
I think I’d not like to be at work in summer’s hot enthrall-
I think that is much better though, than watching the football.
I think I really can’t be arsed, with who it is in charge;
Johnson, Corbyn, Hunt, Leadsom, or that bloke Farage.
For I think that in some future age, it will be so much fooey.
In five billion years, as well we know, the sun will go kablooey.
And all that we have said and done and all our silly rhymes
Will be vapourised. Including those with lines that don’t suit the rest of the metre and aren’t made into couplets.
I think then, that we should not dwell on our human worries of toss,
Yet cast our minds to glorious times, when there are chips, and soss.
And splendidly, egg as well, if you’re lucky.
To be shallow here, I really, really miss real sausages.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I am glad your journey continues with more relief ahead. This marijuana stuff sounds so complicated. Here we have immediately dispensing clinics, I guess everyone's having a crack at a pocket scoop in your neck of the woods.
Soldier on my friend. We don't really have a choice anymore do we?
XO
WWW
Wisewebwoman ~ Me too, WWW - re missing sausages. It wasn't always easy to find good ones in the UK in later years, after supermarkets took over, put proper butchers' shops out of business. I do remember the good days of sausage though - even the sausages we had for school dinners were delish!
ReplyDeleteFingers crossed on the MM front! And on we go... :)