Connie

[Rich Z]

Yeah, this made EVERYTHING else far down on the priority list now.

[donzee]

Wow Rich, I just saw this post, hoping for a full recovery for Connie.

[Rich Z]

Thank you.

Hoping for the best. Praying a lot too.

Second chemo treatment will be on 06-01. Since she only got one of the three drugs that first time, I think this one might be much harder on her. She didn't have much in the way of side effects at all from that first one, so maybe she will be one of the lucky ones that doesn't suffer much from the side effects of chemo. Certainly got my fingers crossed hoping for that one.

At least she is healing up well from the surgery. It would have been really bad had that first chemo treatment hit her hard while she was still trying to recover from the surgery.

But I am here for her, no matter what. There isn't anything I wouldn't do to help her.

[Rich Z]

BTW, if anyone is interested, I post more about this on my main website.

https://www.faunaclassifieds.com/for...d.php?t=785785

I can't see any reason to post the details everywhere.

[donzee]

Wow Rich, you and Connie have had a workout, take care of yourselves.

[Rich Z]

Yeah, and this is just the beginning...

[Rich Z]

Originally Posted by Rich Z

Yeah, and this is just the beginning...

If I only knew when I posted the above......

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. In case this wasn't enough of a load for Connie and I to be carrying, I had a heart attack on Memorial Day. Rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, went into emergency surgery and had a stent placed in my right coronary artery. Cardiologist told me it was nearly 100% blocked and I am lucky to still be alive. The left coronary artery is 60% blocked, so I may be going through this again soon for a stent to be placed in that artery.

The Sunday before I was putting in a post for the new mailbox, and I guess sinking that post into the ground pushed me over the edge. Darn miracle I didn't have the heart attack while working, as I would have been laying out down there at the end of the driveway for who knows how long. As it was, Connie got right on the phone Monday morning and had emergency services there REALLY quickly. Which quite likely saved my life.

So far I am feeling OK. Was pretty tired for a while and the slightest effort would exhaust me, but that seems to have passed.

Connie seems to be doing well with the chemo treatments. At least better than I had expected. The tumor marker the oncologist has been monitoring started above 9,000, then dropped to 900 something, and the latest one on 06-29 for 578. So I am REAL hopeful that is a good sign that she will be able to pull through this.