Well it has been an exciting last few weeks as I was called to serve in the Bishopric. I guess I am now making up for all of the church that I have missed over the last few years. So far it has been a good experience.
My health is doing good. I had a check-up yesterday. The doc was happy with the way that my counts have recovered and are continueing to recover. My white cells are at 1.5 and my neutrophils are at .9 which means that my immune system is comming back and soon I will not have to wear a mask. The next stage in treatment is the 12 doses of radiation, which should start soon. Dr. Sanchez is really good at keeping me informed as to the riskes involved. He also informed me that the nureses from Mountain View Hospital still ask about me. In fact when they read the blog wondered when I would be back in for more treatment. Somehow it is strangly comforting to know that the nurses are looking out for me. This is the first week in a long that I will not have to go get an infusion. The infusion center is a fun place if you are looking to catch up on some sleep. It is funny it takes an hour and a half to infuse a bag of platelets, but on the weekends it only takes 40 mins. per bag. I am still wondering what the real time should be, hopfully it is closer to the 40 min. mark.
We had a pretty good scare on Saturday afternoon. I was gone to do an errand, and Lani was at home. She heard Max crying outside, when she opened the door here was Max holding his right arm. I guess He and Sam were playing around the gates to our community and some how he got his hand stuck in arms that open the gate. He was screaming. The neighbor who lives right by the gate could hear him over his TV show. When he got out there it was all that he could do to open the gate. Any way after a quick 3 hour trip to the ER, he emerged with only a bandage on his wrist. He was lucky. I thought that he at least broke something. His hand is still sore today but it is getting better.
Casey Nish
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Has it been a month already?
Sorry for the lack of updates time has just flown by over the last little while. I finished my first round of chemo therapy. It was nice to do this on an outpatient basis, it has been a blessing as we were able to continue business as usual. My counts are low and I have absolutley no immune system, Zero white blood cells and the other day my platelets were at 1. I often wonder if healthy people wonder what their ANC, WBC counts are at. Probubly none if any would waste time to figure this out. The small tumors that were showing up on my body are slowly disappearing very slowly. In the middle of this I was called to be in the Bishopric. It will be a very interesting calling.
I was at the infusion yesterday for 6 hours. I was only supposed to get two bags of platelets. The two bags were quite full so the nurses thought it was closer to four bags of platelets, so I should be well stocked up for a couple of days (hopefully) The upside is that I met two people who have cancer as well. One had CML the other had MML. After talking to them I feel very lucky to have AML. One of the guys was sprayed with agent orange, I guess they used this chemical in Veitman. The government did not know that it would cause cancer but several years later it shows up it is a type of bone cancer, very, very painful.
I am very thankful for what health I do have and for the support. I met a lady tonight for the first time and she shared with me about her cancer. Apparently she has been reading my blog for quite a while. It was interesting to hear her side of how cancer has affected her life. We agreed that the hardest part of fighting cancer is that your body just cannot keep up with your mind. Your mind can still go super fast and want ot get lots of things done but your body just cannot keep up anymore.
What is intresting to me is when I am selling life insurance and share my story, the people dont get it. I mean here I was a perfectly healthly person one day and the next day I have cancer. Some people look at me like I am crazy, others are in denial, very few people take the time to protect the ones that they love. I don't know but it must be greed thing. If they only knew how much I wished that I would have purchased more insurance. Anyway enough about what is bothering me, life is good and is only getting better.
Later.
-kc
I was at the infusion yesterday for 6 hours. I was only supposed to get two bags of platelets. The two bags were quite full so the nurses thought it was closer to four bags of platelets, so I should be well stocked up for a couple of days (hopefully) The upside is that I met two people who have cancer as well. One had CML the other had MML. After talking to them I feel very lucky to have AML. One of the guys was sprayed with agent orange, I guess they used this chemical in Veitman. The government did not know that it would cause cancer but several years later it shows up it is a type of bone cancer, very, very painful.
I am very thankful for what health I do have and for the support. I met a lady tonight for the first time and she shared with me about her cancer. Apparently she has been reading my blog for quite a while. It was interesting to hear her side of how cancer has affected her life. We agreed that the hardest part of fighting cancer is that your body just cannot keep up with your mind. Your mind can still go super fast and want ot get lots of things done but your body just cannot keep up anymore.
What is intresting to me is when I am selling life insurance and share my story, the people dont get it. I mean here I was a perfectly healthly person one day and the next day I have cancer. Some people look at me like I am crazy, others are in denial, very few people take the time to protect the ones that they love. I don't know but it must be greed thing. If they only knew how much I wished that I would have purchased more insurance. Anyway enough about what is bothering me, life is good and is only getting better.
Later.
-kc
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