Well, today was a tad memorable... maybe. I saw a guy that according to Denise when I told her I found out what kind of cancer he has told me for the third time. No wonder he was in such a hurry to walk away at Harbor Freight. Odd place for us to meet I know.
I went to Radiation today and asked one of the ladies that works the machine and lines me up it about Radiation Cream. I showed her my back which Denise said last night was bad and that I needed to ask. Shocking that I actually remembered to do it, but I did. She said she had set up where I could meet with Dr. Anderson 's Assistant (not what they are called but hey, I'm doing the best I can), after radiation if I could just wait a while. I asked her what the stuff was, thinking it was mainly a cream that helps the skin with the damage of the radiation. For those who have never had it, it burns and leaves your skin looking much like a sunburn, feel that way too. This has Lidocaine in it to numb the skin, but I don't feel the skin. I feel the bones, the muscles and for sure the spasms, just not the skin. While that may sound crazy it isn't. I have a Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma first diagnosed officially 7-1-2009 as CTCL, I have the Mycosis Fungionoids. That stands for Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma, you probably saw that on the news. Don't let nobody fool you, it gives you no moment of peace and yes, it is painful. So I explained to her the deadening of feeling from the skin, or maybe just learning how to ignore it until it hits a certain pain level, who can say for sure which. To show her I showed her my knee, complete with 2 patches of skin drug off from the morning fall. In the end, I told her I would just wait until Monday when we met with him since I was in no pain at the moment. It was nice of her to set up the meeting.
So about this morning. Dr. Flanders always asks if I had any falls and this time I can say yes. I went out this morning to check the status on the Guinea keets that just hatched out and were with their parents, the cats here stalk them. The cats had, as I suspected, moved in around the Guineas in an attempt to separate them from the keets. I hissed loud that that made all but one cat retreat, but she wasn't going anywhere. I saw some rocks and grabbed a handful and tossed them towards the cat. Still, she didn't move. So I went toward her with another handful and this time I would throw them harder. I know the small fence was there, it has been there two years now, yet I failed to acknowledge it. I simply forgot to step over it, didn't even try. Was I too focused on the cat or just didn't connect the dots, either way, I went down. I landed hard on the concrete pavers and came down hands then forearms first, giving the crashing shock some buffer. I slammed the right knee and knew I had damaged the skin on the knee. When I landed I first had to check to see what was damaged and how bad. My arms, much to my surprise had sustained little to no damage only showing up hours later as bruises. I saw the knee and skin removed, I was ok though. Then I started to laugh at being so stupid. I came in and got back on the computer looking at receptacle covers and from 8:30am- 11:08am I must have fallen asleep or blacked out.
The rest of the day I just ran. Harbor Freight, Rural King, TSC, Food City. I stayed busy today just running errands. Late tonight I felt something hard as I talked on the phone and in my arms was a piece of wood. I scratched it out and will attend to it in the morning.
I went to Radiation today and asked one of the ladies that works the machine and lines me up it about Radiation Cream. I showed her my back which Denise said last night was bad and that I needed to ask. Shocking that I actually remembered to do it, but I did. She said she had set up where I could meet with Dr. Anderson 's Assistant (not what they are called but hey, I'm doing the best I can), after radiation if I could just wait a while. I asked her what the stuff was, thinking it was mainly a cream that helps the skin with the damage of the radiation. For those who have never had it, it burns and leaves your skin looking much like a sunburn, feel that way too. This has Lidocaine in it to numb the skin, but I don't feel the skin. I feel the bones, the muscles and for sure the spasms, just not the skin. While that may sound crazy it isn't. I have a Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma first diagnosed officially 7-1-2009 as CTCL, I have the Mycosis Fungionoids. That stands for Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma, you probably saw that on the news. Don't let nobody fool you, it gives you no moment of peace and yes, it is painful. So I explained to her the deadening of feeling from the skin, or maybe just learning how to ignore it until it hits a certain pain level, who can say for sure which. To show her I showed her my knee, complete with 2 patches of skin drug off from the morning fall. In the end, I told her I would just wait until Monday when we met with him since I was in no pain at the moment. It was nice of her to set up the meeting.
So about this morning. Dr. Flanders always asks if I had any falls and this time I can say yes. I went out this morning to check the status on the Guinea keets that just hatched out and were with their parents, the cats here stalk them. The cats had, as I suspected, moved in around the Guineas in an attempt to separate them from the keets. I hissed loud that that made all but one cat retreat, but she wasn't going anywhere. I saw some rocks and grabbed a handful and tossed them towards the cat. Still, she didn't move. So I went toward her with another handful and this time I would throw them harder. I know the small fence was there, it has been there two years now, yet I failed to acknowledge it. I simply forgot to step over it, didn't even try. Was I too focused on the cat or just didn't connect the dots, either way, I went down. I landed hard on the concrete pavers and came down hands then forearms first, giving the crashing shock some buffer. I slammed the right knee and knew I had damaged the skin on the knee. When I landed I first had to check to see what was damaged and how bad. My arms, much to my surprise had sustained little to no damage only showing up hours later as bruises. I saw the knee and skin removed, I was ok though. Then I started to laugh at being so stupid. I came in and got back on the computer looking at receptacle covers and from 8:30am- 11:08am I must have fallen asleep or blacked out.
The rest of the day I just ran. Harbor Freight, Rural King, TSC, Food City. I stayed busy today just running errands. Late tonight I felt something hard as I talked on the phone and in my arms was a piece of wood. I scratched it out and will attend to it in the morning.
