I was just scrolling on craigslist and it reminded me of the time in 2015 that I spent so much time browsing it literally blocked my IP address from viewing anything for a solid 3 days
@hankgreen I HAVE A CURE FOR HICCUPS FOR REAL. Drink a full glass of water in little swallows until you totally totally run out of breath. So no breathing through your nose while you drink.
Had a meeting with my oncologist Friday and my PET scan looked very encouraging. All of the signs of disease are in “two adjacent nodal clusters” with no involvement of organs outside the lymph nodes. Marrow looks clean (though it’s always very hard to know for sure, there was not abnormal sugar update in the marrow.)
I don’t have any of the “unfavorable” symptoms (night sweats, weight loss, lack of appetite.) And sometimes Hodgkin’s can get very clumpy and form a big mass which they call “bulky disease” and I don’t have that.
All of that sets me at stage 2A non-bulky, which is about as good as it gets. Paths forward are either a pure chemo treatment or chemo and radiation, which will depend on a radiologist’s assessment of how well they can avoid doing damage to my heart and lungs while still hitting the cancer and the areas around it.
Feeling ok! Just really hungover right now, a little nauseous and achey….and I do have the fucking hiccups again!!
Also, thanks Elon, for giving me my verification back as the weirdest ever chemo side-effect.