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ddvm wrote:
But I really do appreciate all the encouraging words and good wishes – never doubt that they do make a difference! 😀
Well love, you know we’ve got more than all the well wishing you can handle 😉
I’m glad your stay wasn’t TOO bad, and that you’re home again!
My mom hates hospitals, she says she feels like she’s getting sicker and not better when they maker her stay…so she usually dictates to the doctors when she gets to leave 😆 🙄
Speaking of which, my Mom says: “GET WELL SOON! From a fellow veterinarian on the West Coast! 😀 “
Sending lots of love and warm fuzzies and prayers and good things your way!!
I’d have words with the hospital staff about that nurse who hit you to wake you up for vitals. That was extremely unprofessional and rude! She should be reported for that kind of behavior. People in hospitals are already sick, they don’t need to be abused on top of it…and hitting you is abuse.
And since you may have to visit again someday, it would help if that particular nurse wasn’t taking care of you, I would put it on my records that I didn’t want her any where near me.
*hugs* Glad you are feeling better and are going to see a specialist for further testing, I hope you get the all clear and that this is only in one place and can be eradicated soon.
Kyrin
Thanks, guys, the MRI went well – I’m leaving for Boston tomorrow so won’t be on for a few days.
And, Barrdwing, I’ve been feeling like a Golden retriever! 😆 Love them but have lost too many of my favorite ones to cancer. Just lost an awesome one, Zack, who had skin lymphoma and then developed bone cancer. 😥 He was such a sweetie!
I am so sorry for coming in on this late as well, but I really hope that everything will turn out great!
*I will hit that nurse for you!*
~Just kidding. My bark is worse than my bite!~eaglefeather831 wrote:I am so sorry for coming in on this late as well, but I really hope that everything will turn out great!
*I will hit that nurse for you!*
~Just kidding. My bark is worse than my bite!~Sometimes a good bark will do the job just fine! 😆
I’m back from Dana-Farber. The doctor was really nice but a little more blunt than the local oncologist – which actually I prefer. I’m stage IV lung cancer (but it’s not in my brain, yeah!) which means the average person lives 8 to 13 months. 😥 If I respond to the Tarceva I might live another year or two. And there’s always the possibility something new might happen. Right now I can’t be put on a clinical trial because I started the Tarceva. So M.D. Anderson is out. I knew when I started the Tarceva it would make me ineligible but I needed to start doing something positive toward treatment and toward feeling better – it’s hard to describe just how sick I felt last week. Not to mention short of breath.
I actually do feel better now. Although I’m still having bouts of nausea – I had stopped my pain meds yesterday thinking they were causing the vomiting but evidently they aren’t the whole story.
I’m going to take a week or two to process the info -most likely I’m going to have to sell the vet practice I just bought in Jan after working there 16 years. I keep having this crazy idea – I always wanted to drive across country plus I’d love to meet Wyland. Turns out he’s hosting a dinner Dec 13th in CA. I can’t fly for at least 6 more weeks (my lung might collapse due to the pressure change) so I keep thinking why not just do it? I think it is an avoidance technique myself. But if I can’t get it organized by Dec – which is pretty close – there’s nothing to say I can’t do it in a couple of months, right? Just a thought.
ddvm wrote:I’m back from Dana-Farber. The doctor was really nice but a little more blunt than the local oncologist – which actually I prefer. I’m stage IV lung cancer (but it’s not in my brain, yeah!) which means the average person lives 8 to 13 months. 😥 If I respond to the Tarceva I might live another year or two. And there’s always the possibility something new might happen. Right now I can’t be put on a clinical trial because I started the Tarceva. So M.D. Anderson is out. I knew when I started the Tarceva it would make me ineligible but I needed to start doing something positive toward treatment and toward feeling better – it’s hard to describe just how sick I felt last week. Not to mention short of breath.
I actually do feel better now. Although I’m still having bouts of nausea – I had stopped my pain meds yesterday thinking they were causing the vomiting but evidently they aren’t the whole story.
I’m going to take a week or two to process the info -most likely I’m going to have to sell the vet practice I just bought in Jan after working there 16 years. I keep having this crazy idea – I always wanted to drive across country plus I’d love to meet Wyland. Turns out he’s hosting a dinner Dec 13th in CA. I can’t fly for at least 6 more weeks (my lung might collapse due to the pressure change) so I keep thinking why not just do it? I think it is an avoidance technique myself. But if I can’t get it organized by Dec – which is pretty close – there’s nothing to say I can’t do it in a couple of months, right? Just a thought.
i say do what you want so long as you feel up to it , I do all kinds of stuff im not supposed to i just tell em to back off . Do what makes you happy 8)
OH, God! I’m so sorry, ddvm! 😥 Absolutely do what you want that will make you happy. It’s your life, after all. You should spend it how you want.
Oh I do hope you come out to Cali to visit! I know you wouldn’t be able to go on many of the rides, but we could get you into Disneyland if you wanted, just being there can be awesome!
The Wyland thing sounds awesome too! We have lots of his galleries down in Laguna, we could show you around there too!
Keep us posted!
~Cat
(tantrum on)I protest this diagnosis! Who do I yell at for the raw deal you’ve been given? This is just so not fair! I’m selfish and I want you to be here for a lot longer than they are giving you, like years and years, and it is just not fair! (/tantrum off)
Meantime, that song just keeps going through my head, “I went skydiving, rocky mountain climbing, I went 4.7 secs on a bull named Fu Man Chu, and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter, and gave forgiveness I’d been denying.”
Lady, I think it time to start planning those skydiving trips, etc that you want to do while you are well enough to do them. We’d love for you to come by and visit if you can. Do what you want to do, every moment of every day, and I pray you get the time to do everything you have always wanted to do.
I am so bummed that this had to happen though, I wish they were wrong and that you weren’t ill. *hugs*
We’re gonna have to talk on the phone sometime, but not today, today I would just cry on ya…and you really don’t need that. In a few days though, when I’ve managed to get a better grip about this, I’d like to chat.
Kyrin
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