I’ve been caught up in a swirling mass of indecision. Frozen in place. Can’t write. Can’t focus. Afraid to look forward. Unwilling to look back. Hung up in the now. It took a dead man with a saxophone to shake me loose. Driving along this morning, heading into town to meet with Dr. Pippas to [...] [...]
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Dr. George called me right on time this afternoon and we had a 15-minute discussion of our options. First of all, we don’t know the whole story yet about my creatinine level. There is every reason to believe that it will normalize somewhere at or near the 1.8 baseline we had going into the HD-IL2 [...] [...] This is the time where it would be advisable for someone to lock me in a closet for a couple of days. Lock me up and render me unable to type, so I won’t say something stupid and burn a very important medical bridge. Here I sit, feeling like I’ve been dipped in hot french [...] [...] I just got home this afternoon from spending the early part of the weekend with my brother, Eric, at his hunting lease south of Albany, Ga. I went by The Medical Center lab on Thursday morning to get my blood work done and then headed out of town to see Eric. On the way down [...] [...] I could not be more excited about our meeting with Dr. Dan George today. It is so nice to be in the presence of a super doc who doesn’t act like one. He is approachable, nice as hell and Jill says (and I have to admit) he’s a fine specimen of a man. We had [...] [...] We are here in Durham, NC at a Springhill Suites hotel waiting to leave for our first Duke lab work and an appointment with medical oncologist and kidney cancer specialist, Dr. Dan George. One of our sons, Nicholas, is keeping the home fires burning. Callie Sprague (and, of course, Marquette McKnight) are taking care of [...] [...] Because of the precarious condition of my back, I declined a generous offer to fill a spot yesterday in one of the rafts that navigated the newly-created whitewater course on the Chattahoochee. Jill made the trip and I stood on the sidelines and watched. I knew that I had made the right decision at exactly [...] [...] Just in the nick of time (before I did something I would regret later), like fire off a blistering email to everyone including the NC State Patrol, I finally got the call from Dr. Dan George’s nurse practitioner, Sarah Wood. Sitting here, red in the face and feeling like my head is in a vice, [...] [...] For the past few months I’ve been taking a dose of Ativan at night as I go to bed to help me sleep. As you can imagine, sleep comes hard for a cancer patient. My mind just won’t shut down at night, especially since I don’t have anything I’m excited about reading right now. I [...] [...] |
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