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Petscan, and otter things.

Post 21

There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho

If I ever have to give up the booze, Bob forbid, I think I'm going to say I've gone tea towel too smiley - biggrin


Petscan, and otter things.

Post 22

Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE)

smiley - hug 2legs


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Post 23

Baron Grim

smiley - teasmiley - towelsmiley - rofl


Once your head clears a bit, I've no doubt you'll get things straightened out in no time.


As to the computational upgrades, you should be able to build a more than adequate system on the cheap. Most of the bleeding edge, "take-my-money" style hardware these days features a touch screen. You should be able to pick up a damn fine laptop for the price I spend each week on gas, food, and drink. smiley - alesmiley - alesmiley - ale (I exaggerate... call it a week and a half.)

I don't know much about the latest Windows 8.1 but I expect it probably works well if you're willing to adapt. It's somewhat built around touch screens but that part of it can be turned off.


I will suggest you find some new hobby/distraction that's portable and maybe internet independent. Going through any sort of medical treatment inevitably entails long idle periods, often with no internet or wireless access. I spent around two hours, five days a week for two and a half months waiting for a one minute stream of protons to pass through my skull each day. Since nearly one of those hours each day I was strapped under a mask on the table, I really developed my smiley - zen but I also got a LOT of reading done in the waiting area before my sessions.


Petscan, and otter things.

Post 24

Heleloo - Red Dragon Incarnate

smiley - hug


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Post 25

ITIWBS

...quitting smoking, just imagine you're on an airline flight, lay back, close your eyes and take advantage of the time to get caught up on your sleep...


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Post 26

minichessemouse - Ahoy there me barnacle!

Have you looked at apple type computers? I know it means learning a new screen reader, but voiceover us pretty good when I've had to use it, and it comes pre installed. Plus last time I checked they weren't all touch screen ish either.


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Post 27

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

Unless a lot has changed, with goiceover, and macs, they won't do necessarily what I want, for recording software, t in the same way I can, using JAWS and cakewalk Sonar smiley - zen Plus I don't think My brain can handle learning new stuff, right now; smiley - headhurts

rubbish nights sleep, even with melatonin; sleep is not an option, it seems. smiley - wahsmiley - sleepy so tired.

day in town with William, found a gorgeous Italian pizza place smiley - drool best pizza I've eaten since 2004, seriously smiley - droolsmiley - blush but my tummy/abdomin is still kinda painful. possibly kinda cramp due to low water intake; I've been used to drinking so vast an amount of water, each day, for decades, my system doesn't like this water-starvation diet.... smiley - wahsmiley - ill

the laptop will be a non internet (when required), portable thing, for me. I'll be able to read audio books off it, whilst offline, too. smiley - zen ; plus have my little mp3 player still, for listening to audio books off, and the lap[top would have a lot of music on too smiley - zen

Plus, if I get a powerful enough laptop, and maybe USB soundcard to go with it, in addition to onboard sound, I can (with no internet connection), use it for editing, and mixing, making/creating music on cakewalk smiley - zen

looking at a machine about the £850 to maybe about £1000 I think, thus far, but researching it is making my headache worse. -£1000 is nothing. its about, I think, maybe three or four months smoking expendature smiley - laugh or what would have been, before I quit smiley - zen

finally the oncology nurse I'm seeing Thursday has gotten in touch, and Emailed me, so I've managed to write rply to her, suggesting a port a cath, instead of the 'line' they want to put in my arm (port a cath, is line, fixed in chest; should be less painful, as it will go direct into a larger blood vessel; vina cava, jugular etc., etc.,) smiley - zen

gona eat some hippy fancy yoguart with wiggly things in it. replenish hopefully some of my unatural bacteria and other bug eyed monsters in my digestive system, which I imagine several dozen hours of IV antibiotics may have depleated smiley - crysmiley - wahsmiley - zen also bought some junk food to eat later, if I can face it... holding off pain killers for now, and nictoine replacement via snus smiley - laughsmiley - doh

Think I've got the hang of the expresso machine thinggy, I bought yesterday smiley - zen brain still not `100 % back to abnormal. but getting there. didn't tire quite as quickly today, and thinking is getting a little easier, as I guess the after-affect of being poisened with drugs in hospital, having a concussion, and a little brain haemoridge wears off.

Not sure I'll have to give up booze/drinking forver; really its just because I'm limited to this 1.5 L liquid, total, per day, whilst sodium is so low... smiley - alienfrown Mind... not sure I could realcly stomach a beer right now, anyhow; over the last few years I've been drinking less and less beer/booze anyhow.... smiley - alienfrownsmiley - weird

think I may go try nap/lay down... still full up from lunch, so too early yet to think about food for dinner.... Mind, it is perhaps nearly the time I wanna be getting in the shower... but maybe that can wait for now... smiley - sleepy


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Post 28

minichessemouse - Ahoy there me barnacle!

I would suggest a trip to your local apple store and have a play. I do get what you mean about having to learn new things though. I've always used apple things (although my phone is android) so am more comfortable whth them.

I think I must be having some of that extra fluid for you. These past few weeks of my pregnancy I've been drinking much more than is usual for me. Baby is obviously thirsty!


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Post 29

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

rethinking laptop ideas.... seems I can't get a version of cakewalk for win 8.1, that will work with the screen reader smiley - wahsmiley - doh so may just pick up a far cheaper laptop, for use in home, on wiFi, etc, plus to have ton of music stored on, etc smiley - zensmiley - huh but... not rushing into it, now... as the origional plan seems scuppered smiley - dohsmiley - musicalnote unless I can find a suitable win 7 machine, floating about smiley - alienfrown which I think seems highly unlikely smiley - dohsmiley - alienfrown


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Post 30

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~

smiley - applesmiley - apple aren't that* different from pc's when it comes to using them. I guess it's like going from Windows XP to Windows 8.1.

I've had the privilege of switching between the two systems frequently (on a daily basis even) but have been stuck with an iMac for the last couple of years but am happy with that. It's 8.5 years old now but still w*rks like a charm. Seldom any problems with it. Only two in the last two years, I think, and they were easily solved.

And i don't have to worry about updates, viruses and installing new hardware. The smiley - apple usuallys find whatever drivers and other stuff the new hardware needs on the internet and downloads them without having me to worry about it.

Last but not least: I've never met a person who has w*rked with both systems and doesn't prefer the smiley - apple

(Well, except for one - but she was the kind of person who would always mean the opposite of what I meant smiley - laugh )

smiley - pirate


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Post 31

Milla, h2g2 Operations

I am stunned. All that stuff, you didn't need.
I so hope the chemo works well and fast. And it doesn't necessarily mean you lose hair - mum kept hers through the treatment.
Get well, honey.

smiley - towel


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Post 32

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

Not sure if it'll be the chemo that makes me lose my hair, or the radiotherapy, which will be after it.... err, can't quite remember when the radiotherapy will be now.... but at some point smiley - zensmiley - diva - my last hair cut, circa 1993/1994 was also on the NHS smiley - laughsmiley - snorksmiley - boing


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Post 33

Milla, h2g2 Operations

Donate it to cancer charity wigs NOW, then! Or even keep the cut off hair and have one made for yourself?
smiley - towel


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Post 34

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

It'll grow back.... its only hair.... I've a few more important things, TBH, occupying my mind At the moment, other than weather I lose my hair or not smiley - laughsmiley - zen donating it sounds like an idea though... we'll see... of course I may not lose it smiley - zen we'll soon find out I guess smiley - laughsmiley - zen anyhow...... if I lose my hair.... it'll be an excuss to buy even more silly and expensive leather hats than I already have smiley - zensmiley - silly


Petscan, and otter things.

Post 35

aka Bel - A87832164

Sorry I missed this for this long, but I haven't checked in h2g2 for months.

I wish you lots of smiley - goodlucksmiley - goodlucksmiley - goodluck with the therapy.

I'm glad you have William to support you. smiley - hugsmiley - smooch


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Post 36

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

no problem... not everyone has the spare time, to be here every day... or however often smiley - laughsmiley - zen I'd be as good as dead now were it not for William.... if nothing else; I'd have never gone to the hospital/GP in the first place, and had the lymphoma diagnosed.... smiley - blush end of cycle two of the six months chemo, Thursday coming.... and so things moving along smiley - zen - there is an end to it... and... its horrible... but... manageable and copable and... so forth smiley - biggrinsmiley - zen


Petscan, and otter things.

Post 37

aka Bel - A87832164

I'm so glad you're coping so well (apart from passing out after cleaning smiley - winkeye ).

My husband was in hospital for about two weeks (a bit more than two years ago now) after he had had a CT scan for his kidneys (he has a history for renal colic) and somebody had discovered a lymphona right next to his kidneys.

He was really scared, cause his dad had died of cancer (morbus hodgkin), but he got the all clear after two weeks where they examined just about everything.

I hope you'll get the all clear sometime soon, too. smiley - hug


Petscan, and otter things.

Post 38

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

Is but a matter of time; no cancer could survive overly long in my body I reckon smiley - winekeysmiley - biggrin - the actual physical lump under my armpit; that made me... Oh, OK; the lump under my armpit, which made William make me go to the GP, in the first palce; vasnished totally after first two infusions of chemo drugs; actually basically gone after the first one, but a bit left I could feel; I thought there was still a tiny swollen bit of lymph tissue left, then my oncologist pointed out my error in my palpation technique,; and I just flexed my pectoral muscle, and saw the tendon slide out of teh way, revealing no lump whatsoever there any more smiley - zen -- because of this; and as I've been physically taking the chemo very well ; I've got a pet scan bought foward, to check progress at an earlier stage than they would normally; lets just say; when I heard that, news, and I new the significence of the Pet scan being brought forward (it can be used, u unlike a CT scan, to make actual desicsions about length of treatment etc); I .... was ... almost tearful at taht moment smiley - laugh and... I'm .... with reseravations of reality ; quite hopefuly that it may even be teh case I don't need the full 6 cycles of chemo smiley - zen- but, we'll soon find out, and if I do need 6; I'll have 6.

If I have 6 and it doeosn't work, I'll have another 12. antoher 24, whatever they want. if that doesn't work; I'll have stem cell repalcement; I'm young enough... and tough enough... and stupid... or mad enough to (I thnk); still come out with a smile on my face, and still....... manage to misbeahve wildly during it all smiley - biggrinsmiley - zensmiley - boing

anyhow. both Sir and Ma'am have told me, in no uncertain terms, I have to get better. - far be it from me to disobey a direct order/instruction/comand smiley - biggrinsmiley - boing - things gotten complicated asides teh chemo mind; addisons disease, possibly; possibly also pernicious anemia... but, well smiley - shrug if I've got them; I've probably had them like forever, and they've only become an issue, and noticible now, by the doctors, because ... I'm a little under the weather due to the chemo and cancer... - It'll all get sorted... even if the time to get it sorted, and the chemo drags on, is... painful, boring, and tedious and horrible at times smiley - zen its not always all horrible... there's always.... a smutty remark to be made to a nurse... or... some level of disgraceful mischief to ve getting up too smiley - biggrin

and I've quit smoking... which is probably good ; done my skin and nails wonders if nothing else smiley - laughsmiley - diva


Petscan, and otter things.

Post 39

aka Bel - A87832164

Dear me, that's quite a lot of side effects. But you're right, get through whatever it takes, and then we'll all smile with you. smiley - smiley


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Post 40

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

pah! nothing! I'm hardly, in reality getting any side affects of the cancer, or chemotherapy;
I've avoided, nausea, etc, which is the main one;

true; my hair is getting thinner, but that was virtually guarenteed with the ABVD chemo I'm on;
I'm getting pain, in various bits of my body; basically everywhere at differnt times, aching, muscle aches, etc etc; but I'm a big strong boy/girl; and I can take pain... and furthermore... because I'm as mad a a bucket of eels; I'm not having any pain medicaiton; instead; I'm honing and fineing my technique; of processing pain into colours, and heat; a kinda ... neat trick although it does take energy and concentration.... but... getting better at it, can be useful elsewhere for the future smiley - whistle
energy is up and down a lot; that is the worse actual chemo side-effect; fatigue; but my sleep being rubbish isn't helping that...
Oh, and my sense of touch is getting rubbhish; perlipheral neurophathy; but that oughta pass, and I'm still pretty dexterious really smiley - zen

getting side-affects from steroids too; which I'm taking for the addisons disease I've been diagnosed with (adrenal glands not secreting cortisol aapparently..) that is messing up my sleep; and making me eat so much!- damnit! after taking so many years to slim b down; I'm putting on weight!

smiley - laugh mind; I'm eating some damn fine food!; and lots of it! smiley - biggrin


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