Entries Tagged as ‘food’

July 31, 2007

Better

Maybe it was my two-day camp-out in a healing garden, with accompanying campfires, music and healing, or maybe it’s the low-dose sustained release morphine, or maybe it’s knowing that the end to chemo is in sight, but I’ve been doing a little bit better. The steroid crash is still no fun, but at least [...]

May 9, 2007

Expectations upside down

Ok, I think I’ve got the trick with food. If I expect it to taste like what I think it will taste like, I’m going to be sorely disappointed. But if I throw those expectations to the wind, and approach the thing-that-looks-like-a-grapefruit-that-used-to-taste-like-a-grapefruit with the enthusiasm and cautiousness of a small child just learning [...]

May 9, 2007

Turn around

Funny how a day can turn around. I ended up talking to the oncology triage nurse this morning, and lo and behold she told me to come in. An hour later, filled with IV fluids and a new anti-nausea drug (kytril) life was much better. I even ate lunch AND dinner, oh [...]

May 6, 2007

So far, so good

Had my first A/C treatment on Thursday, definitely felt drugged, but the nausea meds work. Knock me out, but they work. So far, so good. I think my mom and I both expected something more dramatic - Friday morning I was fine and at home doing paperwork, and sent mom off to [...]