A New Week

Nausea has all but disappeared recently leaving me only with the symptoms of fatigue and night sweats and of those two, the former is constant while the latter is intermittent even though it seems like it is consistently constant as well.  My appetite seems to come and go and I have noticed that if I am busy doing something then I don't miss being hungry but if I am busy doing nothing but watching television or a movie then being hungry seems to always be around...  so...  it is my hands that need to say busy not necessarily my mind.

Infections seem to be happening more often as well these last few months.  Where my sinus infections seem to be ongoing, I am now developing an infection in my skin that has gotten down into the roots of my facial hairs, requiring me to take a pill twice a day to eliminate its persistence.  And, while I do not like the idea of taking yet another pill, I am concerned what impact (if any at all) this new pill will have on my internal organs.  The literature for this pills requires that ALL MY DOCTORS become informed that I am taking it.

My quarterly scan is set for Thursday of this week and since it is just a CT Scan there is no fasting requirements, but I will probably fast anyway since it is at 8:00 am.  I am interested in hearing the results the week after next because my colonoscopy doctor had informed me of a new lesion on my liver.

A New Month Begins

It is not so strange anymore how fast one month ends and a new one begins or one year, or a decade but each of those pass by far too quickly these days as one gets older and older and tries to act and feel younger and younger to offset the obvious about life.

For the last couple of nights I have had night sweats, not bad, but still needing to return to bed wearing a bathrobe to keep from coming into contact with wet sheet on the top and bottom.  My next infusion of Opdivo is this Thursday and I wonder if that has anything to do with this or not...  but, in my mind there seems to be a connection...  maybe a weak one, but it is still there nonetheless.

My fatigue has returned as well, but not as bad as it was before, but it is also there and obviously present in my mind, especially in the afternoons when I have done nothing to make my body tired and thus incur its rathe and rathe it is and if you have ever felt fatigued then you understand my choice of words.

Of course and life before, it would always be my thyroid that is going haywire and not my physical body at all...  still, my body is old and tired and with the least effort at all, I seem to be developing all sorts of pains and strains in muscles and in my joints:  bending over, or kneeling, or lifting above my head.