Well, I am back online, at least for the immediate present. I will choose my postings carefully, they will be selective so I don't wear myself out as I still have barely any physical strength and that does affect the thinking too. But I glanced through the new posts today and could not resist jumping in when the subject was hatchetfish, so the ice as they say is broken.
I have cycle 3 of the chemotherapy beginning tomorrow--two weeks of treatment (one each for about 3 hours on days 1 and 8) followed by a "free" week is a cycle. My onocologist has not decided if it will be 4, 5 or 6 cycles. Extreme lack of energy is expected, so no worry there, but it does limit one's life; this would keep me home even without covid. Overcoming the nausea I had 24/7 for more than two months was a milestone, so I can take being tired even if it does mean my knees can sometimes buckle under me and just getting out of a chair can leave me panting. What the future will then bring when this set of treatments have finished is an unknown.
I do not know what to say to all those whose kind words in this and the other "update" threads Mike posted have truly made a real difference. "Thank you" seems so inadequate, but no one could mean it more than I do.
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