Cancer Selfies

Dec 21, 2022

19:26

The winter storms and chemo are conspiring

Cycle 8 Day 1

This is the most I'll I've felt in a number of cycles. Hopefully it's nothing rest won't solve, the reschedule really threw me off. I needed extra nausea medication at the chemo suite, which is a new one for me.

I'll have my take home baby bottle until Friday morning, which forces my Decemberween travel date to Saturday. Saturday, we are expecting a major winter storm. Here's hoping that the luck I'm not feeling with the chemo holds on the weather, but I'm not holding my breath.

A man with thin hair wearing a high visibility coat and surgical mask sits in the waiting room of a hospital A fuzzy photo of a man sitting at a computer desk with red lighting A photo of a man sitting at a computer desk with blue light coming from one side and red the other, the background illuminated with white light, there is a pile of Squishmallows A photo of a man sitting at a computer desk with a mix of red, blue and purple lighting, purple dominates

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Dec 14, 2022

21:02

A good week

Cycle 7 Day 8

Its been a happily quiet few days, since I got to return back to my apartment. But that cannot last. There's a winter storm expected tomorrow, which doesn't impact someone who stays home a whole lot, but Friday I have an intake appointment with a palliative care doctor that I don't want to miss or have to reschedule. And then four appointments next week (pre-chemo oncologist appointment, symptom management, chemo, chemo disconnect), which is a lot of hospital trips. Being terminally ill is practically a full time job.

This once again sounds more defeatist and depressing than I mean it to. I'm living my best life, doing hobbies, playing games, taking outings to enjoy seasonal lighting, spending quality time with my cat. Decades of mental illness, and coping with mental illness, have given me a good base for coping with the situation.

A man with thin green hair lies in bed, holding a beaver Squishmallow A man with thin green hair sits in a computer chair, wearing only a hooded zip up sweater vest, the background has water effect blue and purple lighting A man with thin green hair sits in a computer chair with a sleeping orange cat cuddled in his lap, the cat takes up half the frame

From the comments

James Petrosky: Just some happy things: An orange cat sits on a red computer chair and looks at the floor An orange cat is curled up on someone's lap An orange cat sits in the space where drawers should be inside a side table A 3D printed evergreen tree with string lights circling around it and a bottle of Coke Starlight for scale A wreath made of shiny things on strings found at the dollar store A 3D printed Koffing held in front of the wreath from before, it is mostly painted A large yeti Squishmallow sits in the passager seat of a car, a man with a red toque and high visibility coat leans into the frame, smiling

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