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OT - but not totally. About my health.
Good Morning,
I'm having a tough time trying to decide what to say here. The past couple of months have been very difficult for me. My chemo treatments stopped working, just as I was about to sign up for a clinical trial of a new drug a CT scan showed that I had a large pleural effusion (google knows lots about this) that had collapsed my left lung and required draining. Four attempts at draining over two days only dealt with about 20% of the effusion but it was two days until Christmas and they let me go home. I was fine for a few days but was then readmitted to the hospital to try surgery on this. That was about six days in Critical Care. We did try a new chemo drug in the past few weeks. It robbed me of all of my white blood cells and so I have spent the last 8 days in the hospital where nobody was allowed to breath anywhere near me. I am back home again and feeling better but will be signed up with Hospice later today. I do have the option of trying the chemo again but am currently not in favor of that. My cancer is getting worse, I am declining treatment and so am eligible for Hospice services. Of course nobody can predict how much longer I have but the word "months" has been used a few times and I am hopeful that I have a couple. All of this because I wanted to tell you all how much I have enjoyed RCTQ over the years and have loved having this community of friends to turn to when I needed a lift or just wanted to peek into somebody else's life for a while :-) And then there is that awesome HUGG that you made for me. Thank you all for being there for me. I will continue to "use you" if that is O.K. Rita P.S. If anybody is in touch with Pat in VA, could you share this with her? We had a couple of very nice meet ups in the past when my husband and I were in VA. and I want to let her know how much I enjoyed that. -- Rita L. in MA One Eyed Mutant Ninja Quilter :-) |
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