Well here I am again. I had thought surgery on my bladder cancer had gone well. No stent left in ( Also known as living Hell for the length of the stay ) and little pain. Okay the pain has come. Not fun at all. Whether you are a man or woman, pain in the groin area sucks. It is not easy to ice or use heat on. Combine that with pain in the kidneys or bladder in the back and you get UGH! This is even worse when like me you have back issues that already give you pain in the kidney, bladder area of your back. You can’t tell which is acting up. I have an RF ablation today at Noon to try and help with the back issues for this area, but hoping for an extra boost of hiding the pain in my kidneys and bladder from surgery. Also seem to be sleeping a lot more lately than normal. Yesterday went and took a nap about 1 and was supposed to get up and cook dinner on the grill. Well that did not happen, instead I got up about 3:30 this morning . I also slept most of Friday into Saturday. It may be the extra pain meds causing the sleepiness but do not think so. Been feeling so tired even before I started taking them.
Well Monday the RF Ablation went well, if by well you mean having a 40ft. long needle shoved into your spine and manipulated while you are still awake and can feel every freaking movement. ( Okay maybe it was only 39 ft long :P ) Then they run electricity through the needles to make sure they have the right area and finally they heat the needles to burn out the nerves. ( No I did not smell bacon ! ) Now remember this is 5 days AFTER surgery to remove the 3 cancerous tumors in my bladder. Yeah NOT something to do ! EVER EVER AGAIN ! Someone Gibbs slap me if I think about doing that again please !
Not one of my smartest plans ever ! I can just picture Red Forman saying to me!
I was willing because my insurance flips on the 30th and my deductible resets as of July 1! Really should have waited but wanted to get this done while the insurance pays 100%. You can’t blame me for being cheap, heck money is so tight I make pennies scream before I spend them. To that end I went back to work after the Ablation and put in 2 more hours so I would not have to make up as much time. Yeah DUMB MOVE # 2 ! The Fentanyl wore off about ½ an hour after I got home and the pain started building. It did not get better over night. I made it through ½ the day Tuesday before having to quit for the day. Today I will not be working and so have to burn a PTO day I had been saving. Even the extra meds from PM for my Bladder cancer surgery are not helping. The pain in my kidney area is intense. Hoping it will go down SOON !
Now for some more good news ! Chemo starts July 7th, a Friday, so I have 2 days before having to go back to work and recover. The doctor is going to be doing BCG which is injected directly into the bladder through the easiest route. OUCH ! ( Yeah through THERE ! Mr. Happy ! Wee Willie Winkie ! whatever you want to call the male member — or as some females say the male brain !) ). This is supposed to lower the side effects so looking at no hair loss or weight loss, dang was hoping for about 50 pounds of weight loss through chemo ! Hey you got to see some positive for all this or you will start screaming !
More good news Buddy
our 11 year old Chow mix had been pretty lethargic the last 2 summers due to the heat and no AC, but now thanks to my oh so AWESOME Mother in Law the AC is on ( love it but hate the much higher electric bills ) and Buddy is acting much younger, even playing with Amber his much younger little sister. So happy he is enjoying his summer again ! Now if I could only get her to quit her violent snuggling ! At 90 pounds she can do a bit of damage to my poor back when she starts in.
Also good news Thanks to everyone who has donated, I have raised $160 out of $2200.00 to get my car fixed There is more that needs fixing quick like the Ball joints, so the wheels don’t fall off and the valve cover gasket so I do not kill yet another starter. If there is any way you can help please click one of the links below. If not please help by sharing this post so more can see and maybe help as well.
If you want to donate you can go through my GoFundMe page or through PayPal if you say friend or relative it is free and I get 100% of the donation, Thanks ElenaCarlena for that great advice ! or you can use the new Zelle Pay
which works very well !
For both Paypal and Zelle Pay I am registered with my email address of Louisvillebuschs@gmail.com
Thank You very much to all who have already helped. Thank You In Advance to all who share my tale of pain and need and woe as well as any new donors to my cause. The peace of mind of knowing I can continue to get to and from my chemo treatments as well as my multitude of doctor appointments is a weight off my shoulders !
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Thank you to those who have donated thru Paypal already ! If you can’t donate please share on FB or other social media if at all possible please ! Thank you all again !!! It is truly amazing here in the DK community !