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Feb. 18

February 18, 2010 at 2:10 PM | Posted in Treatment Journal | 3 Comments

Finally, some good news to report.  I’m actually feeling better the past couple of days.  I have a little bit of energy.  I have slept completely though the night the past two nights.  My bowel problems have improved so that I’m not afraid to eat.  Still not perfect digestion, but MUCH better than a week ago.  And, I can start to taste certain foods on the rear part of my tongue now.  Taste food!!!  That’s something I haven’t done in a while.

My hearing is still shot, but that won’t ever change, or so I’m still told.  Its just maddening.

As for the cancer, I won’t have a CT scan until the end of March, so I won’t know anything until then.  That will be a baseline, so I really won’t know if tumors are growing until a CT scan later in June or July.  Until then, its just live on and wonder.  I won’t be doing any chemo again regardless of the outcome.  It is what it is, but no more poison in my body. 

Now the question is, can I work and function in society with my hearing so damaged?  Only time will tell.  Hopefully everything else will return to something resembling normal in terms of taste, energy, and my digestive tract.