Pain

I will get back to highlighting special people I have met in my life, but back to the cancer......

I am on the 4th out of 10 sessions of radiation.  This will allow things that are on the bone to get zapped, and after its complete the bone can hopefully take over again.  They are doing 3 spots, and radiation in itself isn't bad.  Below my right knee I had one spot that showed bright and shiny on the bone scan- we are zapping that.  The main reason to do this is to get my hip- so no fractures....but getting back to my knee.

I have a friend Steve who really wanted to do something nice for me.  So he picked up 2 tickets for the Bears Packers in Green Bay.  I mentioned to him early on that my going would be sketchy at best, he said not to worry, if I cant go, he has plenty of others who are interested.  Bears Packers- sure there may be a tiny bit of interest.  So Tuesday was my test.  Deanna was with me for the radiation, and I had a follow-up doc apt about 3 hours later.  So since we were zoo members, we went.  I used this as the test if I can do the walking necessary to go to the game.  I failed the test.  Sure I did the walking but I spent the next 1.5 days in bed with pain- and this is while taking the narcotic pain killers.

Tim- meet cancer pain.  This is not a guy you want to meet.  The spot on my knee was the problem.  Here is what cancer pain feels like- (every cancer is different)- imagine being hit in the knee with a hammer really hard, but you didn't feel the impact, you just felt the after effects.  And the after effects lasted hours.  So if any one reading this sees someone who has the same pain, you now know what they are feeling.  I am sure there are heavier pain killers, etc.

The good news is, after bed rest it feels so much better.  I decreased the pain killers in 1/2.  And hopefully can greatly reduce them moving forward when the radiation is done.