Today is the day that the battle really begins. Later on this afternoon, I'll be checking into the University of Washington Medical Center (the Spa) to begin my immunotherapy. I'm very excited for this thing to get started, but not as as excited as I am for it to finish.
I've had a very strange mixture of emotions lately regarding this trip to the hospital. In addition to the excitement to start, I'm scared out of my head. Mostly because of the unknown. I don't know what to expect while I'm in the hospital. I do know that I have a room to myself, a television and unreliable wifi, but I don't know how I'm going to react to the medication. I do know that my heart is full with the love and support of tons of people all over the country and at least one dude in Hong Kong. I don't know how the medication is going to affect the cancer. I do know that I love my family and friends and have thousands of reasons to beat this melanoma into submission. I don't know what I'm worried about-I've got a freaking superhero cape!
Nice cape, Rick, it suits you. But what the heck are we going to do with all this extra bacon? Short pork bellies, stat.
ReplyDeleteWe're sending best thoughts, white light, and bacon breath.
- Bonnie, Bob and Amelia
the old bus stop gang
You're gonna beat this, Rick. And you don't even need the cape to do it!
ReplyDeleteGood luck today at the spa today Rick, watch out for the nurses with the cold frail hands.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good fight, the Smiths will be praying for you.
Hey Rick - I know the hardest part is that first chemo treatment. I told my nurse that I was raised to not do stupid things (like inject yourself with poison), and yet that's what I'm required to do. It helped to think about it like little Pac-men working their way through my blood to eat all things cancer. Maybe a just like that image because I'm a child of the 80s! :)
ReplyDeleteOur family is praying for yours every day, and we will continue to wait for the word NED (no evidence of disease)to be shouted from the Pacific Northwest!
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