6th Treatment

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I just got home from my 6th Chemo Treatment.  It was a pretty quick day.  My labs came back quickly.  My medicines came in on time and I got in and out in 6 1/2 hours!  Michelle brought me a two piece Popeye’s Fried Chicken dinner for Lunch. And my childhood friend June (who works at the Hospital) stopped by to see me a couple of times.

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Me in my chair.  There is something that’s promising.  Three people told me to soak my hands in ice water to help prevent more Neuropathy damage.  Two of them actually did it during Chemo.  I took a small ice chest in and a large bowl and during my last bag, I painfully soaked them as much as I could.  My nurse hadn’t heard of the practice.  Another nurse told me it probably was not going to work and I was just punishing myself.  I’m crossing my fingers when I tell you that I walked out of that clinic with no neuropathy pain in my fingers.  I even put my hand on something in the refrigerator when I got home and no pain.  Whoop!!!!  If this holds up, I will be reporting it back to the nurses and maybe it will help others.  (Thanks Jodi, Lane, and Alicia)

To top the good day off, I stopped by my Doctors Building after getting my pump installed and ran into Trey (another friend).  I went to see Ellen and she gave me a wonderful care package.  Thanks so much Ellen!

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And look who I came home to

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Bruno was so glad to see me!

Now to spend the next 48 hours with more Chemo being slowly pumped into me…

Bad?  Nope.  Good?  Nope.  Tolerable.  Yes!!!!  Funny how life throws the curves.  There are usually many things you don’t like.  Then you get hit with something HUGE that you don’t like.  Now all the things you have a right to “not like” (like Chemo), but you like it because it’s the enemy of your enemy.  I’ll take living to fight any day over not living and not fighting.  Here’s to my 6th treatment!

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Published by Tim Ard

Cancer Patient, Computer Geek, Photographer, House Builder, all around lover of life :) Edited by his daughter Ashley Wilson: Tim passed on Saturday, Sept 14th after battling pancreatic cancer since October 2018. Tim was loved by so many and will forever remembered as an amazing father, husband, brother, son, friend, photographer, and the list goes on. Remember Tim with the smile that he shared with us. We love you Dad!

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  8. All of that is great news, the ice worked on some of the people at Mitchell Cancer Center. Looked like they were getting there nails done 😂 lol, keep up the good work. There’s one thing Cancer shows you and that is how special life is and you get good friends too..
    Love and hugs.

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  13. Thanks for the update. I’m not too sure on the return to home thing. Bruno has a look like he didn’t like you being away that long. Glad it went well.

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