Sunday, September 29, 2019

09-30-2019

  I have stayed in the last few days. The air is bad, really bad and the temperatures are breaking records. I'm not sure if it is lung cancer or the COPD, but I have to limit my time outdoors in this stuff.

  I go in October to see about my foot. It is still painful and swollen. Then later on another MRI brain scan. Then next month I see a new doctor on my CTCL (T-Cell Lymphoma), and they will tell if the ImmunoTherapy is doing more damage. Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas are not curable whereas Lymphomas can be if caught early.

I tried weaning off the O2 like this new doctor wants me to and it damn near killed me 2 weekends ago. I am still healing from that move. If I could find out where Dr Flanders went and it was close I would switch.

Friday night I was asked to speak at a Gala for Dr. Rama. I had notes Denise and I prepared. There were 200 plus people there. We ate before and that takes O2. It was hot in there and even hotter on the stage and with a dress coat on. I walked on stage and couldn't breathe so I asked if I could remove my coat, which they said yes. This helped me breathe. I looked down and went off the paper for the hello part, then I just spoke from the heart and what was on my mind. I had people laughing, which is always a good thing. I gave Dr. Rama a lot of praise, well deserved praise. I told everybody that Denise was probably saying oh no when I started ad-libbing the speech.

  Dr. Rama got up and for the first time told the story of how I died on the operating table and about my Near Death Experience. He told about the 2 heart attacks I have had that have resulted in each time to 2 stents for a total of 4 now.    

  I'm going to guess my weight now at about 238-240 lbs, time for a diet.