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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.
Happy Birthday, Lisa!
Best wishes to your mom, erika.
Plei, hospice was wonderful with my mom. And with us. All best love to you and her and the family.
I'm sorry the nest is sometimes echoey, David. You're doing a good job of filling it with friends.
ltc squealed with happiness when I told her the T&T engagement news.
Tim has an appointment this afternoon with the oncology team to go over the results from the second biopsy he had last week, and (I assume) to discuss the treatment plan. Fingers crossed for a really tiny area that the radiation can just totally obliterate!
(passes good cancer vibes to Tim, because Mom doesn't have it again, this year.) We didn't really think she would, but once someone has, it's hard for that thought to be completely gone.
Good to hear your mom's news, erikaj.
Vibing for Tim.
Glad to hear it, erika
Fingers crossed for Tim
Good Tim Vibes!
The sun is out and I'm in JZ's window seat soaking up a sunbeam like a cat.
I have a lot of housework to do but I'm feeling about as motivated as a cat in a sunbeam.
So, Tim has to have radiation and chemo. Radiation is 5 days a week for 7 weeks, and chemo is once a week for 7 weeks.
It’s not a huge dose of chemo, so side effects shouldn’t be too bad (the oncologist—since that’s a healthcare provider that Tim has now—said “You won’t lose that lovely hair!”)
Radiation side effects could suck mightily, since it will be directed at the base of his tongue (and more or less all of the inside of his mouth). But the radiation should eradicate the cancer, which is the goal. The radiation guy (since that’s also a healthcare provider that Tim has now) said that this is curative, not remission. So that part is of course excellent.
But Jesus Christ, this is a lot.
That is a lot. Seven weeks of a whole lot and I'm sure it's not all just magically back to normal at the end of that, although I hope it is as much that was as it can be. I'm very pleased that Tim has some continuity in his healthcare, that has got to make things easier! And curative sounds great, I am in favor
...curative, not remission.
Excellent indeed.