Morphine, Mets, Movie Monsters

What a mix right? But seriously those things are taking up a lot of my energy.

The good news is my cataract surgery went well a week ago (almost). Good fairies took care of me with flowers and food. You know who you are.

More good news. River Frances Wiseman was born last week. She’s darling. 6lbs. 6 oz. Tiny. We can’t tell her eye color yet. I bought a front carrier hoping i can carry her around a bit as I did with my on babies. But there are concerns if i I can’t get my rib pain under control.

Which brings me to rib pain. I’m not sure what happened but as I was finishing up 20 radiations to my clavicle to get rid of skin mets on left side, my ribs began to hurt like hell. It hurt to walk and breathe. My rad doc Clark heard from Jordan Marlowe (amazing, radiation therapist) about how much pain I was in and decided to do a ct right then. Bless them. Dr. C saw that I had fluid in my right lung. They got on phone and called Dr. Estes my pulmonary doc and set up a time to get lungs drained. Wed at 1.

Tuesday i had chemo. I had them slow infusion to 2 hrs since that seens to help minimize side effects.

On Wednesday, a doc punctured my back and drained 600 ml off lung. We hoped that would stop pain but it came roaring back by Friday. Morphine wasn’t even touching pain before & after. Clark said my ribs inflamed so maybe it will take longer for inflammation to go down. I’ll know more today after another ct scan with contrasts. No one sure what caused it. My ribs fragile from all the radiation I’ve had. It could have been a sneeze, using a five pound wt to excercise, dragging a baby car seat in the store with my good right arm.

The next day was my cataract surgery which is no big deal but I have to sleep with an eye patch.

But think about it—crazy week. New baby, chemo, radiation, lungs drained, cataract surgery.. For many a chemo infusion alone leaves them wiped out fir the rest of the week. And i am pretty tired!

But I had a fun week too—movie group met on Saturday night to discuss Nghtmare Alley (the new one) which was nominated for best picture. It’s all about the nature of good and evil and raises questions about who the real monsters are. Really fascinating. I watched it easily 3 times even though it’s almost a 3 hour movie. It was directed by guy who did The Shape of Water. Check it out.

I’m speeding around on steroids from yesterday. Today is the other good day (besides yesterday’s chemo day) i’ll have for next two weeks. We will see.