Chemo Friday

Another chemo Friday awaits me. I have an afternoon appointment today. I prefer mornings. Typically I'm a little sluggish already in the afternoons, and the Benadryl and Torisel will just knock me on my butt.

The kids are going to try to come over tonight for their weekly dinner visit. I will probably sleep through it. That's probably for the best since I still have a little cough and do not care to share it with them.

Alyssa and Charlie had to cancel last night on doctor's orders. Alyssa's doctor wanted her to stay in the house and rest at least one more day, getting over her own bout of illness. That's just fine with us. We want her to get better too, of course.

It might reach 70-degrees today, which means I should probably get out there and collect some leaves for pick-up. The problem is, what do I do with 20 bags of leaves until the next pick-up date. The bags are big biodegradeable paper bags. With the help of a little rain they'll start to biodegrade before pick-up day.

I don't know.

I will meet with my new oncologist again today. I don't expect it to be a very eventful meeting. I've had this head cold that I can tell him about. And I've had a small, but consistent pain in my right hip for several weeks. But I don't think a whole lot of either of those things.

Chances are that the most significant thing that will come out of today's meeting is planning the weeks ahead. We're shooting for the next follow-up CT scan for early December. We may decide to schedule additional bloodwork in the meantime to check cholestrol (the Torisel spikes it higher), and kidney and liver function tests.

We'll likely also discuss my meeting with the specialist in Philly. My local oncologist should have gotten a report from him.

Otherwise I better get busy and get as much done as I can by noon. After that it's doctors, chemo, and home to sleep it all off.