Friday before a 3-day weekend is a fluster-cluck at every business, medical or otherwise.
The senior staff in particular have already headed out of town with their families.

BOL, -Rick

Sweats/chillls are often common with chemo, as the body adjusts to the recent chemical assault from an infusion. Sweating/chills is NOT one of the listed major or minor side-effects of Avastin. But it might be the new combination that's confusing his body's reactions. If he has a fever above 102, or...

BrownBagger wrote:I know all about you and ice cream, Rick.

Food of the gods.

Everything else is lesser food for mortals.

Thanks SS, very good perspective of what it means to be 'disabled'.

And thanks for looking out for those wild animals!!
When I was in Africa in Peace Corps, I saw lions, hippos, wildebeasts, and baboons at close quarters.

Like we don't have enough problems below the stomach :roll: There's a valve there, the lower esophageal sphincter, that prevents stomach contents from coming up, and controls burping. It can be lightly damaged by acid reflux, resulting in tht feeling. I get the same feeling for about a day at the UP...

Thanks for starting the thread!

My own 'final' issues will probably surface in the next year, so I have many thoughts on the topic.
Too many to address now, so I'll post a little essay here shortly.

Take care, Rick

I'm in no way a proponent of Big Brother, but I do get incensed by those who play the system in any manner. Food stamps, SSI, in-state tuition, etc. The system can only work if we all cooperate, That includes dropping a dime on cheats. There's a reason he's sweating an upcoming review: Somebody else...

Yeah, the sandman effect is a little bothersome. Just a tiny grain develops at the inner corner; also some crusting of the eyelashes, Since Erbi is such a suck of magnesium, I wonder if the little grains aren't mag salts of some kind? Congrats on completing this regimen, fingers crossed you can have...

I'm sorry the scan wasn't more definitive and didn't give all the answers you, and the docs, want and need. At this time, I think you're experiencing information overload, and becoming unduly anxious as a result. Plain and simple, nothing significant will change in the next couple weeks, and the onl...

...Your father wants you to do your job - for now it is study, it means a lot to him - otherwise he will be thinking about his disease and life are obstacles for you living your life, this school means even more to him now than before. ..... This ^^^. A parent's fondest hopes and dreams are the suc...

Matt- Welcome to the site that no 27-yr old should ever have visit. Your symptoms describe just about every possible bowel issue, disease, and syndrome there is. And IBS, diverticultis, Crohn's, etc. are much more common than CRC. So there's much reasonn for you to imagine that you have a lesser con...

We aren't lepers, there's no reason for anybody to avoid touching us. I have never heard such an admonition as 'no massage for you'. *Some* patients may have a largish tumor near the skin surface that might be disturbed during a deep-tissue massage. I have a large tumor in my abdomen, and I just cau...

Awesome results, I'm very happy for you!

When a surgeon is operatin in an open ab domen, removing a tumor from the ascending colon, s/he is in a position to visually observe many organs, including the ler front portion of the liver. S/he can manipulate some of the organs a little bit for a better view of their outer surfaces. A liver can b...

If your concern relative to this possible cancer cure is financial, dependent upon whether you can make a profit....

How are you different from the Big Pharma against whom you rant so much??

Just an observation,
-Rick