Whats ahead

Saturday- and I feel good finally.  Yea!!!.   Since my lovely trip to the Loyola ER- with my fever spiking all over the place, and the last round of chemo, I feel like I had a 3 week hangover. 

I was asked a couple questions, by a couple people, what about surgery, what about radiation.  As someone on the non patient side, seeing my mom go through this stuff, my first thought, they know where it is, lets just cut it out.  Prostate cancer they really don't have proper scanning other than 2 places in the country to really know exactly where things are.  I go in for a bone and CT scan on Wed for them to have a good idea of where things are.  Basically a before and after shot of how I am doing, and if the chemo was doing anything.  The one marker- the PSA level that indicated disease progression, and I get that rechecked on Monday.  So its a week with scans- and blood tests to see where I am at- and how to proceed for my apt in 9 days.  It cant be good news because I have to go through this- but what is good is that I don't go long at Loyola where they don't monitor, and correct the course as needed.

So today I will have to catch up on everything that I have neglected for the last few weeks.  Life was better when my responsibilities were to watch the Beverly Hillbillies with brother Ted and go into the kitchen and make myself a peanut butter, hotdog, and syrup sandwich.  Brother Ted liked the Hillbillies, especially the episode when Jethro went to the park to bring a bunch of hippies something crazy to smoke.  Crawdads.  I wonder if Ted, later that night tried to smoke one himself, but they would be hard to keep lit.

Happy Day.