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My last chemo was Wednesday, at least for this round, and my last radiation is scheduled for tomorrow, and apparently no matter what’s next, radiation has run its course, which is OK with me. The Infusion Center at Mercy has this bell we’re encouraged to ring, once chemo is completed, and I rang it then. All the nurses came around and gave us, Betty and me, a round of applause, which was a nice…

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Today, I was discharged by the Radiation Oncology Doc, who I see on Mondays, even though I still have four more treatments scheduled. I have a follow up appointment in two weeks, just to make certain my body has begun to adjust from the 28 treatments. My last chemo is this Wednesday, and already I’ve been told by the Oncology Doc that I’ll see him in a couple of months for more tests and then, if…

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We met yesterday with the Oncology Doc managing the various elements of my chemo (his bailiwick) and radiation and everything else involved. Since I’ve been coughing a lot (apparently there is such a thing as Radiation Cough), he ordered a chest x-ray, I thought to double check to make certain I didn’t have pneumonia, which I’ve had, but really to make certain the esophageal cancer hasn’t spread…

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Except for the time The Champ and I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, where altitude diminished my appetite, no one has ever told me I should eat more. Until now. Now, thanks to cancer treatment, I am officially on a High Protein/High Calorie diet, after having lost ten pounds in only a couple of weeks. I’m able to swallow with relative ease, as these things go, but I’m hardly ever actually hungry. After…

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Yesterday was chemo treatment #3 of 6, and today's radiation treatment was #12 of 28, so I am, more or less, half way through this. Prior to chemo yesterday, Betty and I (and she's with me every step of the way!) met with the Oncology Doc, and he said I am doing very well. Encouraging of course, but he's referring to my tolerating the treatment and not having too many side effects, but this doesn…

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Chemo, which is Wednesdays, went a lot smoother today than last Wednesday, the first time. I might’ve had more than a bit of a bug and maybe that's what made last time really difficult. Or, perhaps it was because of the hurricane that devastated Puerto Rico, as the infusion bags used for one of my meds, the steroid, is made there and nowhere else - we’re a population of 300 million in the richest…

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