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The War Goes on!
Not the Iraqi war - - my war with cancer. Prayer Warriors, thank you. The prayers, the friends and the family have given me the strength to smile, be happy and see things like I have never seen them before.
Well, I haven’t had the time and/or energy to sit down “and write”. It takes a drive and strength that hasn’t been in me. It ain’t all cancer. A big part (of me being without energy) is the last 3 weeks of 100 PLUS degree temperatures, along with the high humidity. Even in the air conditioning, when it’s 108 degrees outside, I’m just exhausted. And, I’ve also been working on a complicated real estate offer. No, not complicated by the metes and bounds, or a boundary dispute, or the minerals - - - not by the title or flood plain or government actions. The offer is complicated by personalities: 6 sellers, 3 different offers, and an eccentric, finger-printed licensed Texas Real Estate Broker. AND, “The King” - little Dixon Kellner spent 7 days with me running the Brazos Bottoms. Man, we had fun, but we couldn’t find one bit of Brazos Bottom mud while he was here! It was too hot to play in it, anyway. I did find an air conditioned Chuck E Cheese. And, Little Dixon showed them at Hard Times that he could eat his whole pancake. (see attached photo).
I’ve now had 3 chemo treatments that include and all day treatment every other Thursday and then I take home a chemo pump that pumps another 48 hours of chemo into me. I think the idea is to see how much chemo my body can tolerate. And, hope that it beats back the cancer, again. They are going to give me 4 chemo treatments and then check me over to see what is going on. The second treatment was a hard one. Halfway through the treatment I started feeling flush, my palms started itching, my throat started itching. I called for the nurse. I was having an allergic reaction. She quickly took my pulse, it was 168 over 105. She went to call the doctor. Minutes later she came back, waiting on the doctors return call, and took my pulse again, now 178 over 110, then 189 over 120. She closed the chemo valve and gave me some kind of benadryl and another balancer. I laid there and meditated about walking on the beach at 14 years old. My blood pressure started dropping. Two hours later my blood pressure was down to 140 over 80 and we started the chemo again (at half the rate). I survived and at 9 pm I left M.D. Anderson. Well, after the second treatment my hair started falling out when I would brush it. Hell with this. I went to the local barber and told him, make it a quarter of an inch all over. If it’s going to fall out, a quarter of an inch doesn’t look so bad. Check out the TrueToTexas BLOG at www.TrueToTexas.com to see photos. Last week we did the chemo at half the rate and my body tolerated it.
You know, sitting there for hours I’ve done some studying. Studying the state of our
And, I’ve got my mind rapped around this global warming. I’m going to make those subjects two separate emails, soon. I’m off to search for some rain.
Chasing the
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