Hey all, some of you may have noticed my absence, I've continued to get more and more ill. At this point I've lost 20 pounds. I can scarcely believe when I look in the mirror, I've lost so much muscle mass it's crazy. I went back to the doctor earlier this week and I still had strep throat, plus they did a blood workup and I have mono too. I had mono about 30 years ago and thought you couldn't get it more than once, but according to the doc it can flare back up if the body is dragged down far enough. It all goes back to the pharmacy screwing up my prescription, instead of healing, the strep just festered and opened the door to the mono flaring up. So now it's just a waiting game, recovery time from mono is about 6 weeks. I've spent a lot of time moving from my bed to my couch to my recliner, LOL! There's nothing worse than taking a nap and waking up feeling like you need a nap, haha! I have to force myself to eat, I just have no appetite. What annoys me the most about the timing is this would have been a great opportunity to help my W after her surgery, and instead she doesn't even want me to come over because she's afraid I'll pass my germs on to her.
A followup on W's surgery- she ended up having to go back in because the surgeon wasn't happy that she had removed enough material from around the tumor. She went in yesterday and everything went fine. I took some flowers over to her, but I didn't go in because of her concern about my mono, I just gave them to the kids and left. OM's truck was there, so I didn't particularly want to go inside anyway.
W will recover from the surgery for a month before starting chemo. I think that is going to be a lot more debilitating than the surgery was, so hopefully by then I'll be well on my way to healing and can help out more.
Not much else to report, there's been no further discussion of D, probably because she's postponing it until she's done with the cancer treatments.
