My thoughts released; a mind set free |
These pages contain my thoughts, from meandering ideas and persuasions to deep cerebrations and serious mentations. Why, for what purpose? To release my mind and set creativity free. Somewhere inside the constraints of my mind dwells a writer, a poet, an artist who paints with words. In here I release those constraints and set the artist free. Perhaps, lost somewhere in the depths of thought, is a story or a poem, waiting to be written. |
A busy day, but a good day. I had a change in my appointment time with the cardiologist from late afternoon to late morning, but things worked out, and I was able to make the new time. The monitor I wore for two weeks indicated that I did go into Afib a few times, but only for less than a minute each time, except one. That one time was under some stress, and I stayed in Afib for just over an hour before my heart returned to normal. She is not concerned and doesn't want me on any medications, just to go back in six weeks to have another EKG and see how things are going. She agrees, the Afib is likely related to my still healing from surgery and being back on chemo. She also agrees, if the oncologist does, that I should take a break from chemo and was a bit surprised I was back on it this soon after such an in-depth surgery. After we finished up there, I stopped by the VA clinic and dropped off some paperwork, then it was back home, running a bit late, for my wife's physical therapy. After she was done we stopped at the VA center to update some paperwork and see where everything is at with the claim I have on file (it seems I was exposed to contaminated water). The results were back; I do qualify for some disability based on both the contaminations and some of the duties I performed. It's not like a huge payout, but every little bit helps. By the time we got back home, dinner was ready (a roast in the instapot. I was able to eat some potatoes and gravy, but nothing else would go down; there was too much restriction in the surgical site of my throat. Thankfully, I go to Fargo tomorrow to talk with the surgeon and have my throat scoped again. From what we've discussed with doctors, it's likely also a result of the chemo causing swelling in the area of the surgery. Next Monday, I meet with the oncologist to discuss all of this, request being tested and having a scan done to see if there's even any cancer left to kill off (why do chemo if it's already in remission?), and to discuss the next year of immunology and other options. So yeah, all in all, it's been a good day except for not being able to eat without choking and still having a lot of pain problems from the chemo. Tomorrow should fix the choking part; I'm sure he'll stretch the area while he's in there looking around. Hopefully it won't be much longer and I'll start to recover a bit from the last chemo infusion and some of the other miseries will also fall by the roadside. |