This is my blog about my medical journey through Lymphoma. I was diagnosed April 11, 2006. Currently, I am in remission with a high chance of cure. It was non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, specifically Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma. The tumors ended up being in my hip, my sternum and my backbone. I have left the blog up for anyone to read, and I also use it to remember all I went through. Because of all the drugs and stress, some of it is foggy, so it is fun to go back and see what I went through!

Friday, April 28, 2006

Mailbox Humor

Today I looked like a wierdo yet again. Amidst the cancer haze I forgot to check my mail for like a week so I went to get my mail out this evening. It was actually about 12:15 in the morning. The only way to carry it was to stuff it in the front of my shirt and tuck it in while I crutched my 8 pound pile of Albertson's coupons to my room. Of course, I looked like I was either (a) pregnant or (b) wierd; we can rule out (a) because the PET scan was negative on that one.

Update on medical condition: The bacterial infection is subsiding due to giant antibiotic pills...seriously huge pills...like nearing an inch long...ridiculous to swallow...probably killing the bacteria by sitting on them with their fat pill behinds. I feel great though despite having to enlarge my neck like a snake eating a moose to get these pills in me. My sense of smell has returned and I have discovered that the chemo has heightened it...now I can differentiate my clean and dirty clothes from accross the room.

I have a couple pictures uploaded. One of me coaching in Dallas, and one of me getting my buzz when my "friends" left a rat-tail on the side of my head. That was only temporary though, it's all buzzed. I'll get a picture of my cool buzz before it starts looking patchy and I shave it all the way into a shiny dome.

5 Comments:

Blogger Terrie Trip said...

If you separate your clothes, you won't have this problem. The clean clothes get hung in the closet or folded in your chest of drawers. DUH!
The dirty ones get put in the hamper, shoved under the bed, or discreetly tucked into your friends' backpacks.

7:14 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

lol

7:27 AM

 
Blogger Mamasita said...

Hey Jason,

When Kris was in getting scans on Wednesday (the 26th) we zipped a little pressie up to the classroom and left it on Thayer's desk. It's a bit annonymous, because we forgot to attach any note to it or anything. Suffice it to say, it has a Med Journal and a bottle of lovely anti-mouth sore swigging liquid in it...All these details of what meds, what doses, etc. will come in handy, so keep up the great recording like you're doing on this blog.

We like your pics, especially the one "Little Brother" posted :-)

Ciao for now,

:-)'s x 6

10:31 AM

 
Blogger joyce said...

j, that is HARDLY a rattail! can't wait to show you mine....;-) did you get the book?

12:23 PM

 
Anonymous Chemist said...

Jay,

Cut the big pill into little bits so it is easier to swallow, duh!

9:55 PM

 

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