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Cancer Support

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alfredo

(60,168 posts)
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 10:16 PM Apr 2016

Checking in to let you know I'm hanging in there. [View all]

I have eight more radiation sessions, and one Chemo.

I'm on the Fentanyl patch. It gets me stoned the first day, ok the second, and feeling the return of pain the third. I don't like painkillers, but I will make an exception this time.

Nausea is still a problem, but it passes after singing an aria to the pocelin pedestal.

So things are going as good as can be expected. I'm coping

My mother in law had a fall, it affected her speech, but she is improving

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