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The Great Cancer Adventure Chapter Eleven - A Stranger Comes to Town; Somebody Takes a Trip (May 2020) 5/9/2020 Technically, I can still eat, despite what I wrote recently about losing that privilege, but almost exclusively only through my feeding tube. I can, for example, eat up to four almonds at a time or (but not and) two or three wheat thins, provided I chew them into a pulp, but anything…
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The Great Cancer Adventure Chapter Ten - Days of COVAD-19 (April 2020) 4/3/2020 We’re leaving soon for another round of chemo therapy at CTCA north of Chicago and a follow up appointment with the GI Clinic there to make certain my feeding tube is working as it should. Illinois has a mandatory stay-at-home order, which might mean that we might be stopped by police or state troopers, so I have…
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The Great Cancer Adventure Chapter Nine - The Light in Darkness (March 2020) 3/3/2020 Yesterday, our granddaughter turned six, and today her mother turned 40. I slept OK night before last, but not so well last night, being awake from just after midnight on through the morning. Perhaps I was thinking about the time Elizabeth was born and how small and fragile she looked just out of the womb. More…
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The Great Cancer Adventure Chapter Eight - The High Cost of Illness (February 2020) 2/6/2020 My Otho Hip Guy, who told me in December he was leaving his practice to join another one, has officially landed, and I have a follow-up appointment with him late next week. His new office asked me to get all my records from his old practice, and when I called the old practice to arrange for this, whoever…
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The Great Cancer Adventure Chapter Seven - Leaving the Party (January 2020) 1/5/2020 We've been talking for some good while now, The Champ and I, about taking an international trip to a destination of her choice, as a sort of a gesture of appreciation for everything she's been doing and, frankly, an acknowledgment that I'm almost certainly on a downhill slide, even if at a gentle slope (or so we…
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The Great Cancer Adventure Chapter Six - A Short in My System (October – December 2019) 10/3/2019 Here at CTCA, we've just met with the Oncology Doc to discuss today's scan. The primary tumor in the esophagus looks to be contained, and my various bits are stable or smaller. A couple of tiny spots in one lung, likely an infection of some sort, and the home of my persistent pet cough, which I have…
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