Still alive.
Unfortunately, I still have cancer. I'm a lot better off than I was though. After four different chemotherapy treatments be of them finally got results and now I'm on weaker chemo medication until I reach remission.
However, weak chemo is still chemo. It's a lot like setting fire to your house in order to get rid of some spiders. Completely necessary! But you do fuck yourself over quite a bit. Since I've started on the medication my immune system has taken the kinda beating you see in films about corrupt juvenile institutions. Thus I have been picking up horrible infections with terrifying frequency.
Right now I've been hospitalised for the last twelve weeks because if an arthritic infection I picked up in my left knee. On the leg that was already crippled because my fucking tumour just happens to be right on top of my sciatic nerve. So yeah, my left leg is all kinds of fucked. But, after seven washout surgeries (they fill up your knee like a water balloon and flush out all that nastiness), the infection is pretty much gone and I'm just dealing with aftermath. Hopefully, unless another cunt of an infection rears its ugly head, I'll be able to go home soon... until the next infection.
At some point I'll give a proper run down if what's been happening to me since I got sick. There's a lot to tell. The worst thing about cancer is that you never just have cancer. Not only does the treatment make you an infection magnet you're also weakened to a point where a 3 legged kitten could successfully mug you. Hell, I've actually died once already during this whole mess. For all I know, this could be my amazingly unimaginative afterlife... holy shit, that'd be depressing.
But Yeah, I died last November for about ninety seconds. I was on my way down to dialysis, because of a bastard infection that was wrecking my kidneys, and my heart stopped. I was just reading something on my tablet and then *nothing*. It really is just like falling asleep and at least I know that it doesn't hurt. It's actually kinda reassuring. Good thing dialysis is so close to the ICU here.
But I think that's all I have to say. I kinda disappeared on you guys and my last posts were cancer related so I'm pretty sure there's a few of you who think I died. Sorry about that. But, I'm alive and I won't be dead anytime soon. Afterall, I am quite indestructible.