Saturday, August 19, 2017

SO,WHATS NEXT?



                                      WHAT       IS       NEXT?


                                                               CHEMOTHERAPY?
                                                  




                                                                               

                                                        OR RADIATION THERAPY?

                       

 

                                                                    

 

  

 

                        OR DO NOTHING...

                                                   YIKES, DONT LIKE THAT ONE A WHOLE LOT.

 

 

Notbillybob has a lot to thinkabout the next 

two weeks. He'll see his orthopedic surgeon then. get stitches out.   Most likely going home today.  Then again maybe not. Just saw the pain service and they said they dont want him in the ER tonight if we cant get hold of the pain.

It IS like a ROLLER COASTER!

                                                                       

 Emotional as well as physical and financial.

         


                                                                                  






                                                                                  
No one really has any answers to the big questions. There is a lot of
'Risks out weigh the benefits.... and   Benefits out weighing the risks...

There are statements like this;

"most of the time we like to see.....bla bla"


and 'There is something we can do to.... bla bla"

"We'd like to try and....bla. "

But mostly there is the "we just dont know for sure. There are risk factors any time we...bla bla ba bla." 
What they are saying is 


ANYTIME A SURGEON IS GOING TO CUT YOU WITH A 10 BLADE NO ONE HAS A CRYSTAL BALL.....
SAME FOR
MEDICATION. 

AND 

THE 

BIG

QUESTION**********HOW LONG DO I HAVE?????


GOOD QUESTION.  (not very easy to answer.)

NOTBILLYBOB STARTED OUT WITH A SINGLE TUMOR. TOOK LESTER DIAMOND OUT TWO YEARS AGO LAST MONTH.

THEN THEY FOUND LUCY IN THE SKY.  (PELVIS.)

NOW THESE THREE MORE. CHANGED HIS DIAGNOSIS
FROM SOLITARY PLASMACYTOMA TO 
MULTIPLE MYLOMA.   MM IS QUITE A DIFFERENT BEAST.




 like yesterday for instance. He finally consented to a nerve block.
 A very lovely senior  nurse came in, pulled up a chair and explained the nerve block in great detail. It worked. He trusted her.
The anesthesia service from the surgery came up here to the 8th floor and stuck a long needle in his neck.  They used an ultrasound
machine to see where it was going. Not painfull, but lots of pressure. I'm totally lyin here!  It HURT...bigtime.
                     But it worked. somewhat.  The arm felt like a large   
      piece of beef tenderloin.
Then a few hours later, in the middle of the night it WOKE UP.
   By now it is barking like a junkyard dog. WOOF!


                                   WOOF!!                 LOL!



                                                   WOOF???????




                                                            


                                                                                     

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