People are Amazing!

As I have said, many times throughout this ordeal, It's a roller coaster ride.
Radiation has gone great, and the Y90 mapping and first injection went perfectly.  I'm amazed at all this considering my physical state.  I'm 105 lbs and not eating well.  For awhile I'll just remain in my lazy boy, and let the meds do their thing.

Here's where things get better.  People suck, I mean, really suck.  We live in a condo complex and some own their condos, and we rent.  A month ago, without permission, Chris had been here 17 years.  Last week again, they showed the 3 remaining units.  Last night, our friends across the hall who have been her 13 years, were given 30 days to vacate.  We are next.
Great!  
This is the way I see it, in 30 days, we will be homeless.  The condo board just says, "Business, Is Business!"
There are no support programs available in Wisconsin, and The Va, doesn't seem to care either.
How the hell are we going to move with me in a walker, somebody tell me that.
I'm usually a fairly calm guy, but let me put you in my head for a minute.
This property management company, is filled with the most greedy, and uncompassionate people I have ever known.  They have left us with few options.

Yes! We will still have The Mustang and may just sell everything, and hit the road.

I could buy a house, which would be easier than renting, but why strap Susan, with a mortgage?

What we are actually going to do is buy a small Motor Home, and just drift off into the sunset.

No matter how hard you fight, and no matter how hard you try, somebodies always going to get in you way.

We'll let you know

When you actually start looking at reality, I know what is going on!  I very much, know!

I made this little road sign, just to put it all in perspective.

I'm noticing changes, that are telling me this thing has got me.  Pain under my rib cage, on the right side.  Getting harder to gain weight, and keep it on.  Fatigue.

I'm just saying, realistically.  I really don't have much choice as to which road, I will go down.  I just know!

Amazing how things change on this Cancer, roller coaster ride.  Got the final round of radiation today.  

We went in for my Y-90 consultation yesterday and it's a go, and they have great confidence that it will stretch things a bit. 

What is Y90?

Radioembolization requires at least two treatment sessions. The first session is a mapping angiogram, where a catheter is passed into the liver artery from the groin and angiography is used to “map out” all the arteries in the liver circulation. At this time, any arteries passing from the liver circulation to non-target structures, such as the stomach or bowel, can be embolized (blocked off) with coils, to prevent radiation damage to these organs. A test will also be done to confirm that there is not shunting of blood flow through the liver into the lungs. The second session is the delivery of the radiation into the liver cancer. The radiation is in the form of a radioactive isotope called Yttrium-90 or Y-90, which is fixed onto tiny glass or resin particles. Once a microcatheter is placed into the artery supplying the cancer, angiography is performed to confirm appropriate position, and the radioactive microspheres are injected into the artery. The blood flow in the artery carries the particles into the cancer, where they lodge and release the radiation directly into the tumor. The radiation causes death of the cancer cells over the next 1-3 months.

The mapping process will take place very soon, and after that, we are taking a trip out west to do some photography, then I'll get the actual treatment.

This will be my last resort, but, why not try.

Been Posting a bit these days, but todays, is not the best news, for me at least.

Got my third shot of radiation today, with two more to go.

Then, The Doctor has a special session with me.

I knew it was coming, and it is.  They have determined that there is nothing more than they can do.  5 Mets to The Liver, and several that are expanding rapidly on my abdomen wall, which is starting to build up a fluid of some sort.

I guess that's it, as they gave me two months!

One might think, then, that would be IT!

Well, Kids, It's It When I Say It!

We're going on vacation next week and going to do a little traveling, photography, and home movie making.

I suppose your thinking this is a terrible outcome.

I knew from the beginning, this wasn't going to be cured.

That's Why I Wrote This

When I Get The 

Green Light

With all that said, I do it with a smile.

Ahhh, Yes!

Made it to labor day, and of course, have been laboring around the house.  Put a new screen on the bedroom window, and I will say, who ever invented the DIY, screen kit, was a pathetic engineer.  Nothing fit, and the plastic corners broke instantly.  With a little McGyvering, got it done.

Took the first two rounds of radiation last week, at The UW Carbone center.  That place is incredible and they know what they are doing.  I have three more to go starting tomorrow.  The treatment was so easy, but I did find myself very tired, which I think is common.

I've gotten used to the morphine twice a day, which I'm aware, that may come back and bite me one day, but hopefully after the radiation, I will be able to stop taking it.

Yeap, it's cancer, and all in all, there are worse things in life.  Fighting in a war, maybe being in prison, yeah there are worse things.  I look at it this way, it's just another adventure, and I think, if a person doesn't have an ongoing adventure, then what's the point.

Happy Labor Day, everybody, or what ever you might be celebrating today.  If you have nothing to celebrate, try life.  You might find that celebration, very refreshing.

Of course, we might, just be doing a little faster than some.

Till Next Time

Your Friend; 

Kelley McGuiness