Overdue Update

The thought of sitting down to write a blog post has made me feel sick for the past few weeks. The thought of doing much of anything has made me sick, but this blog post in particular has been unusually daunting. Before, this whole cancer thing was sort of an abstract concept, but the increasing symptoms of the cancer plus the effects of chemo have made it all very real very quickly. Nothing about my body is working quite right, including the writing part of my brain.

I actually got a break from chemotherapy this week, which has been a huge gift. I worked all week with relatively little discomfort, and this morning I felt just almost normal. I started taking the immunotherapy drug again on Tuesday, and so far I haven’t had the kind of pain that sent me to the hospital last time. I can see tiny improvements here and there, and if they didn’t involve the most personal aspects of my bodily functions, I would celebrate them with you here.

Tomorrow night I will fly back to Houston for another round of chemo. I know this will put me back at the starting line as far as how I am feeling, but as I long as chemo is punching back this tumor, I am fine with that. Hopefully, it will also punch back this writer’s block, and I will be back to updating regularly again soon.