Oligo Woe Is Me

This is me.  Rob.  Reporting live from my Boston abode.  It’s nice.  It’s clean.  It’s got a freaky washer/dryer combo.

So onto the topic of the morning.  As my treatments progress, I say that two outta three ain’t bad.  Here’s the breakdown for those keeping score:

• Mind – Very strong.  I feel mentally quite good.  Perhaps better than I have in many years.  I look forward, with great anticipation, as to what the next chapter for the Bromee’s will be.  The future is unknown, and I find that very exciting.
• Spirit – Since all this has started, it has significantly increased my quest for knowledge beyond the living from one moment to the next.  I have found that simple guided meditation has made me sleep better, made me rise better, and take a different look at the things that happen throughout the day.  It all seems to come more “in stride”.  I am more comfortable in my skin than I have ever been.
• Body – I left this to last…because it the one that is bad.  Or how about we say “not so great” instead.  Bad is too strong of a word for me.  But I’m tired.  I’m feeling not well.  I wake every morning feeling like I have a hangover.  And that’s a tragedy considering one of the many reasons I gave up alcohol is that I never wanted to feel that way again.  But now it’s a daily thing that I can count on.  Not a 5 star hangover, just the kind that you know if you’re not careful it could go from tolerable to terrible.  Fortunately my headaches have been relieved by a tiny little pill twice a day.  So thats good.  With all the radiation and the chemo poison flowing through my veins it a wonder I don’t feel ten times as bad.  So all in all I am thankful that this is how it’s is.  I can tolerate this and still keep a smile on my face and big inhales of life going strong.

So that’s the news as it is.  This is me.  Rob.  Signing off for another morning of proton radiation. 

Namaste,

Rob

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