Please...Wesley...why can't I stay?

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Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

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DavidS - Apr 28, 2023 12:29:01 pm PDT #21943 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Fuck. Treatment cancelled today and our schedule just blew up in our faces.

JZ was feeling queasy when we arrived and she hadn't had a BM for a few days. They wanted to be extra careful so they took an x-ray.

Then she threw up into a bag in a wheelchair on her way to the x-ray. And then she felt better.

X-Ray showed nothing different from previous CT scans (so no worse than the original diagnosis) but they're worried about a partial obstruction and don't want to go forward with the treatment (either the chemo or the clinical study meds).

Now she's got an enema plus imaging scheduled for today to try to clear her out. But they can't renew the treatment until Monday.

Emmett has volunteered to cover Monday through Wednesday so we can stay on-turn with our treatment plan (which we want because the blood work shows the study meds are helping).

But now I'm in a limbo state where I haven't had anything confirmed from the doctor or the trial coordinator to pull the trigger on cancelling our flight on Sunday, booking new tix for Wednesday and extending our stay at the hotel.

And today was going to be a short easy day in comparison to the first two trips with ten hour days of clinical blood draws.

This whole thing is hard enough without extra complications. It's so hard to line all the elements up and then it's all fucked on this trip.

If she had pooped yesterday we wouldn't have doubled the length of this trip. (And she tried with a suppository, so....).


-t - Apr 28, 2023 12:32:15 pm PDT #21944 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh no! I'm so sorry. Getting that all smoothed out ~ma!


Jesse - Apr 28, 2023 12:38:19 pm PDT #21945 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh no, I'm sorry to hear all of that!


Jesse - Apr 28, 2023 12:50:36 pm PDT #21946 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I had appropriate reactions to other things as well, but have lost them all! Except for laughing at the Fury call-back.


Trudy Booth - Apr 28, 2023 1:44:16 pm PDT #21947 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Poor Jacqueline! Give her my love.


dcp - Apr 28, 2023 1:50:58 pm PDT #21948 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Ugh. My sympathies to you both. "How come it never goes smooth?"


Calli - Apr 28, 2023 1:51:14 pm PDT #21949 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Well, that sucks, Hec. Human bodies are unpredictable enough without cancer and chemo entering the mix. It definitely makes scheduling a pain. I'm glad Emmett is able and willing to help.


DavidS - Apr 28, 2023 3:21:17 pm PDT #21950 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

They took Jacqueline off to get an enema — something she’s highly phobic about.

I hope this can happen without incident and I can get her home to the hotel.

We’re definitely staying to do the treatment on Monday and can leave on Wednesday to return home.

So Saturday and Sunday we sit around a hotel room. Which is not as fun as it was when I was in my 20s.


Sheryl - Apr 28, 2023 4:45:29 pm PDT #21951 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

I'm sorry, David.


DavidS - Apr 28, 2023 4:54:43 pm PDT #21952 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

She was impacted so it was necessary. Ahhh, the indignities of cancer treatment.

Back in the hotel and she's sound asleep.

I'm off to find a happy hour.