Just to update I am in a limbo of sorts inasmuch as the folks who plan on doing the chemical therapy are trying to sort out dates for the procedures and the Radiation-ish treatment that is supposed to happen in Rome is on hold until after the chemical therapy. This is a real drag since it might turn out that the ordeal of a trip that I went on to Rome to set this up might need to be redone because it has now been weeks since they set up the PET scan and it might turn out that by the time we get around to it that the previous settings will have to be redone so the whole process will need to be redone. This Friday the chemical folks are supposed to be doing a bunch of tests to get things rolling, but the processes here seem to be very uncertain.
Meanwhile the daily ozone replacement therapy Doctor is on vacation. I have recently had a weird pinched nerve in my back while doing essentially nothing at the time so that has hampered movement, exercising and riding around on the bike.
I want to add how unbelievably happy I am here. It is a very weird deal to be in pain and fatigue and happier than I’ve ever been in my life. So, it is what it is and I thank you for letting me share.
4 days? WTF?
I entered the hospital today in order to get an biopsy tomorrow for the immuno-chemo-ish therapy at a time to be determined after the biopsy. The kicker to this story is that when I got my lung biopsy last year in MN it was like 3 or 4 hours start to finish and here they want me to stay for 4 days! I suppose this speaks to a radical difference between care when an insurance company isn’t involved, but Je-sus Kee-riste…4 days?! That’s 4 days where I’ve got nothing to day (Thanks God right now for my computer and wi-fi) where I don’t speak the language, and…well, ok, nothing else, but that’s plenty to bitch about as I enter the hospital a couple hours ago.
However they did do a rather splendid job of shaving my torso from neck to navel with a trip around the corner into the pits, which is nice, this being bikini season and all.
Will keep you posted.