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I’ve always been a little too acutely aware of my own mortality. As a child, I pondered death quite often. Not dying so much, but death itself. The state of being dead. Forever. It was the permanence of death that weighed so heavily on me. I tried to bargain with a God I didn’t believe in. […] I liked having my surgery at the Queensway-Carleton Hospital’s Day Surgery Unit. The staff there, for the most part, seemed friendly and competent. It’s important, when you’re in such a vulnerable position, to feel you’re in good hands. Here are just a few of the people who made an impression. Mary The first person you meet when […] I’m home, happy, healthy, hot, hungry and high. They gave me good drugs. For awhile there I was completely pain free, and it felt heavenly. I slept too, for the first time in days. Blissful. The tumour is gone! The doctor thinks she got it all! And the lymph node biospy was crystal clear! I’m alive! […] I spent the better part of yesterday in the hospital getting poked and injected and stuff, and then around noon I started crying because I was in a lot of pain because I hadn’t any any painkillers because of the surgery. So one thing led to another and next thing I knew my surgeon was […] Thanks for all your good wishes for surgery today. I’m feeling better than yesterday and looking forward to getting the tumour out of my body. I’ll be injected with a radioactive substance at 8:00 this morning (for the sentinel node biopsy) and surgery is scheduled for early afternoon. I’m already starving. I should be home by […] It’s the last day before surgery so I had a bunch of things I wanted to do today. I wasn’t counting on a migraine. Or feeling yucky because some of my usual meds had to be discontinued in advance of surgery. Or worse-than-usual leg pain. Or throwing up. (Have I ever told you how much […] I’m waiting for the home care nurse to arrive. She’s dropping off syringes and gauze and other post-surgical necessities, in preparation for Wednesday. Remember back in the olden days when you’d stay in the hospital for a day or two after surgery? Now they send you home with drains and tubes in you and they […] I don’t know why I’ve been so reluctant to blog about this. I’ve been in constant pain since February. It started when I threw out my back. The minute my back got better, my legs began to hurt. A LOT. I’ve tried physiotherapy, massage therapy, heat, cold, exercise, rest, you name it. Nothing helps. I […] A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I’d heard anger was a common reaction to finding out one has cancer, but that I wasn’t angry. XUP emailed me and said she was angry for me. I keep thinking about that. I never mentioned this here before, but I spent a few months in Ottawa’s […] A couple of weeks ago a CBC reporter contacted me about the Chalk River nuclear reactor closure and the resulting medical isotope shortage. He was looking for the perspective of a current cancer patient. I decided not to get involved. First of all, any delays I was experiencing were not due to isotope shortages. And […] |
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