I caught the cancer

[Wally Fairway 5590]

Tomorrow is the day. 

Mrs Fairway has surgery for her mucosal melanoma, after first being diagnosed in late July, and spending more time in Houston than at home since then, done with immunotherapy, radiation, MRI, CT, and Proton scans it is truth or dare time to see what remains off her nasal tumor. 

This hasn't been a long journey (compared to many others) but it sure is a bumpy, nerve inducing ride. 

[SurlyGator 882]

Thoughts and prayers, Wally.  And not in the sarcastic sense.  Kick it's ass.

[RDCanecutter 26476]

Keytruda appears to be trying to put an -itis on my kidney, so we are pausing it and trying some stuff. I am back on the Lenvima though, so not completely unprotected. My bodily numbers have got the wobbles but not all the way haywire. My Cartoonishly Swollen Feet are down thanks to a diuretic and hellaspensive German compression socks. They are giving me a steroid for something else so I am faux-diabetic again at least for this weekend.

Doc wants me doing more exercise, maybe Yoga. I see it as an excuse to get back up with my old Wing Chun Kung Fu group, which is kinda Yoga-y. I also need to hit some weights because I scrawned out during a past weight decline. It is coming back, but I hope not blobularly.

I want to get a trip into Mexico to search for old books, Baja Hoodies, and other rarities. December is chock-full of shows, and since October they started being G.O.O.D. shows, so can't miss em. But Jan-Feb tend towards bleakness and living-off-the-credit-card anyway. That might be a good time. Currently thinking about flying into Mexico City, stay at small hotel I know near the Zócalo, search books nearby and/or go tour Estudios Churubusco south of town. Then maybe Spanish my way into storing heavy stuff at hotel pending my eventual return, and take off by bus towards Teotihuacan, Tlaxcala (Baja Hoodie Factories), Veracruz (reminds me of our favorite Chanoc movie contra el tigre y el vampiro) then back up via local buses so as to replicate the old passenger train route. I figure keep it less than 3,000 bucks for 10 days or so given my propensity for taco stands, clean $15 dollar hotels, and slow bus travel.

Get that all done and they can't take it from me if 2025 brings some random-slam to the old bod.

Edited Sunday at 05:45 PM by RDCanecutter

[Hornius Emeritus 12491]

4 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Keytruda appears to be trying to put an -itis on my kidney, so we are pausing it and trying some stuff. I am back on the Lenvima though, so not completely unprotected. My bodily numbers have got the wobbles but not all the way haywire. My Cartoonishly Swollen Feet are down thanks to a diuretic and hellaspensive German compression socks. They are giving me a steroid for something else so I am faux-diabetic again at least for this weekend.

Doc wants me doing more exercise, maybe Yoga. I see it as an excuse to get back up with my old Wing Chun Kung Fu group, which is kinda Yoga-y. I also need to hit some weights because I scrawned out during a past weight decline. It is coming back, but I hope not blobularly.

I want to get a trip into Mexico to search for old books, Baja Hoodies, and other rarities. December is chock-full of shows, and since October they started being G.O.O.D. shows, so can't miss em. But Jan-Feb tend towards bleakness and living-off-the-credit-card anyway. That might be a good time. Currently thinking about flying into Mexico City, stay at small hotel I know near the Zócalo, search books nearby and/or go tour Estudios Churubusco south of town. Then maybe Spanish my way into storing heavy stuff at hotel pending my eventual return, and take off by bus towards Teotihuacan, Tlaxcala (Baja Hoodie Factories), Veracruz (reminds me of our favorite Chanoc movie contra el tigre y el vampiro) then back up via local buses so as to replicate the old passenger train route. I figure keep it less than 3,000 bucks for 10 days or so given my propensity for taco stands, clean $15 dollar hotels, and slow bus travel.

Get that all done and they can't take it from me if 2025 brings some random-slam to the old bod.

Not trying to humblebrag, but for crazy reasons unknown to me, I have two credit cards that, together, amount to 100k of credit.  I pay them off every month, so there's almost always 100k of credit available to me. I've always thought that if I get some bad news vis a vis cancer or some other ailment, I'm going to go to Paris or Bora Bora, check into an expensive hotel, go to the best restaurants, drink and and dance as long and as hard as I can, and then shuffle off this mortal coil, leaving my last bill unpaid.  At least, that's what I think about doing. But then there's this conflicting thought: I've had credit cards for more than 40 years and have never paid a penny of interest on any of them because I pay them off every month. I'd feel bad knowing that I was going to break my streak.  My FICO score didn't just build itself, damnit!

[RDCanecutter 26476]

2 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Not trying to humblebrag, but for crazy reasons unknown to me, I have two credit cards that, together, amount to 100k of credit.  I pay them off every month, so there's almost always 100k of credit available to me. I've always thought that if I get some bad news vis a vis cancer or some other ailment, I'm going to go to Paris or Bora Bora, check into an expensive hotel, go to the best restaurants, drink and and dance as long and as hard as I can, and then shuffle off this mortal coil, leaving my last bill unpaid.  At least, that's what I think about doing. But then there's this conflicting thought: I've had credit cards for more than 40 years and have never paid a penny of interest on any of them because I pay them off every month. I'd feel bad knowing that I was going to break my streak.  My FICO score didn't just build itself, damnit!

Congrats on livin right!

I am not gloom n doom, 1/10 worried about a slip in health, 9/10 just lookin for an excuse to go to Mexico.

[Wally Fairway 5590]

On 11/24/2024 at 9:01 AM, Wally Fairway said:

Tomorrow is the day. 

Mrs Fairway has surgery for her mucosal melanoma, after first being diagnosed in late July, and spending more time in Houston than at home since then, done with immunotherapy, radiation, MRI, CT, and Proton scans it is truth or dare time to see what remains off her nasal tumor. 

This hasn't been a long journey (compared to many others) but it sure is a bumpy, nerve inducing ride. 

Surgery went as well as could be hoped, only went 2 hours (slotted for 10 because plastic surgery could have been required, it wasn't). Now just waiting for biopsy results. 

Thanks to Surly for being here, for the thoughts and prayers, and to all who have helped us make to this point in the journey.