Sister Update

The sister's cancer is responding to treatment. We got Petscan results today and she's still carrying around the Big C, but the tumors are smaller and fewer in count. The chemo is trashing her blood counts (we're tracking white and red blood cells and platelets.) She gets booster shots, intended to increase one of the cell types, which makes her bones ache. The bones ache because they're pissed off at the mixed chemical signals they're getting. Shut down, speed up. yeesh.

Anyway, she's had a good week. She was supposed to have another chemo tomorrow (21 day cycle) but the doc is postponing it for a week to let her bone marrow start carrying it's share of the load. So, she gets another week to recover.

The other thing that happened was an application for a disabled parking placard and short-term disability.

Here's my new cause. If you've got cancer and it's bad enough that you can't work, everything you need ought to be free. The sister has a $125 co-pay for prescribed meds intended to give her an appetite. Because you don't really feel like eating in the middle of all this. $125 for a pill (it's liquid, actually) to make her hungry. For crying out loud. I'm volunteering to chip in an extra $50 a year so cancer patients don't have to worry about finances on top of everything else.