I am glad you are going to urgent care, quester. It sounds like high blood pressure to me too.
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Burrell - Mar 23, 2014 6:06:30 pm PDT #10010 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2014 8:30:57 pm PDT #10011 of 30002
brillig
Hubby has a PET scan tomorrow to see how treatment is going. Symptoms suggest the cancer is fighting back, and since he's tolerating things so "well" they may go for the more aggressive treatment they wanted to do but were afraid to because of his heart. As his cardiologist said, "Hm, fight the cancer now or increase the chances of causing a heart problem I can deal with easily. Get the tougher treatment."
But Hubby is anxious tonight. He copes by investigating what mantle cell lymphoma does, so he's deep in survival rates and odds of it being beaten back and likelihoods of it coming back and how untreatable it will be if it does return. So he's talking about life insurance--a little late in the game to get anything we can afford, I imagine--and he's apologizing for putting me through this and all that.
Not my coping method. I was happily in a state of "he's coping with the treatments well, the doctors are cautiously optimistic, we can do this." I feel like a coward in denial, but I need to be on a little more blindly optimistic train for a while.
Turns out nearly all patients with mantle cell lymphoma have two misplaced chromosomes. He's going to tell his siblings and his daughter to consider getting the blood test to check this. He has a son out there somewhere who I hope doesn't get a genetic surprise one day.
Toddson - Mar 24, 2014 6:52:24 am PDT #10012 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Calli - Mar 24, 2014 6:58:20 am PDT #10013 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I hope the PET scan produces more promising results than expected, Connie.
le nubian - Mar 24, 2014 6:59:19 am PDT #10014 of 30002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Connie,
good wishes for a good PET scan and treatment that your hubby can tolerate okay.
WindSparrow - Mar 24, 2014 7:01:43 am PDT #10015 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Lots of ~ma for your hubby and you, Connie.
Burrell - Mar 24, 2014 7:35:55 am PDT #10016 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Much ~ma to your husband, Connie. I hope his results are good.
sj - Mar 24, 2014 7:45:33 am PDT #10017 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Connie, tons of pet scan ~ ma for your DH.
Laura - Mar 24, 2014 8:16:10 am PDT #10018 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Much ~ma for each and hubby, Connie. I would stay on the blindly optimistic train myself, but he has to do what he has to do too. Understandable in both instances.
Laura - Mar 24, 2014 8:18:42 am PDT #10019 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Laura, a guy went on Facebook to recruit people to assassinate Obama
Yes, I really think the crazy hatred is way off the scale for Obama than it was for Bush. Unfortunately I do think that part of it is racist, but I know people I would otherwise not consider racist that hate him with a passion too.