Oh no, Hec and JZ! Though this part does make me very happy:
the blood work shows the study meds are helping
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Susan W. - Apr 28, 2023 8:42:00 pm PDT #21958 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
meara - Apr 28, 2023 8:58:50 pm PDT #21959 of 30000
Yes very happy to hear about the bloodwork, if not the rest of it!
I’m trying to decide how long to stay at dancing. Almost didn’t make it out because I was feeling low, and now that I’m here the heat and the movement are making me a bit woozy
meara - Apr 28, 2023 10:58:35 pm PDT #21960 of 30000
Glad I went in the end—a guy I know from another type of dancing showed up, and he’s an excellent dancer so I got several awesome dances in with him!! Crossing my fingers I feel ok tomorrow because it’s going to be another nice day out and I want to be able to enjoy it
Laura - Apr 29, 2023 5:44:29 am PDT #21961 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I am sorry to hear about the delay and annoyance, but I am happy to hear that the meds are helping.
I'm glad you're having a fairly good time with the siblings, Laura!
I am in a state of grrrr about the sibling-in-law however. My SIL visiting from NY decided to invite a half dozen of her friends (whom I don't know) to my house for the air show. I am Not Happy, but can't do anything without being an ass myself. The biggest annoyance is that they can't go in or out of the building without one of us with them because of the increased security. I really hope they just have Brendon escort them to the beach and they stay there. Traffic is already bad with the barricades directly in front of my condo. Ugh. I am working hard on staying excited and determined to enjoy myself.
shrift - Apr 29, 2023 7:33:38 am PDT #21962 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I am Not Happy, but can't do anything without being an ass myself.
I am 100% sure you wouldn't be an ass by doing anything, given the ass has already shown herself in this situation.
shrift - Apr 29, 2023 7:38:22 am PDT #21963 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
In other news, I got up at 2:45am yesterday for an early flight to Michigan, and then crashed last night and slept for 10 well-deserved hours. There are many softball games, birthday celebrations, and dance recitals in my future.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 29, 2023 7:51:27 am PDT #21964 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Laura, you're far too kind. After a bit of that back-and-forth I'd have loudly asked the SIL in front of the whole group if it really never occurred to her that inviting a whole gaggle of strangers to an outdoor event at a secured building with those entry requirements would result in constant inconvenience for her hosts, or if she realized and just didn't care because it wouldn't be her that was inconvenienced.
Steph L. - Apr 29, 2023 8:22:11 am PDT #21965 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
There are many softball games, birthday celebrations, and dance recitals in my future.
Really hoping that you're going to be IN the dance recitals.
Just LET ME HAVE THIS DREAM, okay?
Consuela - Apr 29, 2023 8:26:56 am PDT #21966 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Travel safely, shrift!
JZ, may everything be smooth for the rest of the weekend. Man, the human body is both a marvel and a hot mess at the same time.
As I age I realize even more how weird bodies are. Like, in the last ten years I learned that eating a small meal in the morning sets my digestion going big time, and bathroom time becomes NOT OPTIONAL very quickly. I have yet to excuse myself from a physical meeting, but at one point I had to duck out of my own team call because my colon was not taking "not yet" for an answer.
I'm doing a strategic leadership training for the next two weeks, and I'm not psyched about it, because the materials are just really high level about strategy and stuff. This weekend I have to write up stuff about My Best Personal Leadership Experience and I have no idea what to say. I hope the classroom sessions will be more useful, although 80% of the folks there will be 20 years younger than me. Sigh.
DavidS - Apr 29, 2023 8:46:18 am PDT #21967 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There are many softball games, birthday celebrations, and dance recitals in my future.
That sounds like fun family reconnections.
The good news on the bloodwork shows that the liver is much happier, the inference being that the mets there are responding to the study drug. The metastases along the abdominal wall don't produce any such information in the bloodwork, but we're hopeful that if it's working in one place it will work in the other.
The import of it all is that it is the disseminated abdominal mets which make her cancer inoperable. If those go away there's a path forward for curative surgery. (And this has happened to another patient during this clinical trial.)
Of course we're kind of grasping for good news straws at this point, as it's early in the process. But we get a CT scan in late May and we'll know for sure.
So that's why we're trying to power through the obstacle course and stay for treatment Mon-Weds.
Emmett gets the Big Damn Hero award for stepping up immediately to look after his sister for a whole week, which makes it possible.