Another day, another dead bunch of cancer cells.The routine of treatment is really helpful, now that I'm in the third round. I know what to expect and I have more confidence that the side effects will dissipate with time, instead of my paranoia that these annoyances will become chronic.
I also encounter many familiar faces as I come, although they are somewhat random meetings because we all have different schedules with our different cancers. So it's always a nice surprise to catch up with someone who I've spoken with before.
It also gives me some great perspective, although a conflicted perspective. The truth is that there are many others that have it much much worse then I do. I in no way rejoice in their suffering, but it does help to remind me of a few ways that I'm super fortunate:
- I had/have no other health issues which limit my ability to focus on just my treatment.
- My cure rate is very high.
- I'm young and strong and for whatever reason (probably related to the above) my body is managing the side effects relatively well.
- I have you all as my massive support group.
- I found this early.
- I have health insurance, and so far they've given me very good coverage .
I see a lot of the people I mention above having some really bad days during their treatment and my heart goes out to them. They have to worry about drug interactions because of preexisting ailments. They have uncertain futures. Many of them are older and more alone or are stage III or stage IV.
So, anyway, round 3 started off smoothly.
Dearest Ted. your compassion is magnificant. And yes you are fortunate that you have no other pre-existing conditions. You know from experiencial knowledge how important this is from the example of your Dad, who i8 also a cancer survivor, in part because of no pre-existing medical conditions. The other part is that we have a medical communtity who with audacity and conviction act to provide the best medical care possible to all patients uaing the art of medical science. God bless us all. Mom
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