I saw the RS the other day and I guess I had forgotten (convenient
right?) that I was due for my 3rd Avastin injection in the normal
protocol for my condition. All the scans
and visual observations showed no fluid and no blood vessels. Good right?
Yes and no, good there is no evidence of activity, bad because I had to
have another injection. I am starting to
slide back into the person who doesn’t play well with others. I feel like I can’t have an opinion. I am
motivated by fear, the fear of reoccurrence, the doctor saying not to treat
could be detrimental, and the general sense that it’s all going into the
crapper tomorrow. I am tired of going to this office and feeling completely and
utterly out of control. Now, I am not
talking about going off the deep end (though it is VERY appealing at times). I
am talking about having a medical condition that doesn’t consistently behave
itself and doesn’t give me any concrete data like, if you do a) then the result
is b). It is more like, let us do a) and
the results can be any letter of the alphabet we’ll just have to run with it
and hope we can overcorrect if things go the wrong direction. I hope this makes sense, and if it doesn’t,
welcome to my life! It is such a small
population of those of us with POHS that you can’t get any real solid
data. In other words, there are no concrete answers or studies that you
can base your decisions on. You are
basically in the dark (figuratively and possibly literally). I really miss the days where I would go
months and sometimes years with no recurrence and when the decision was fairly
black and white. You treat, you respond, life goes on until the next bleeder and
it was simple, predictable, and easy.
Now I feel like a I have to jump off a cliff every 6-8 weeks and we are
all hoping that the parachute opens and if it doesn’t be sure to call down to
me “SORRY!”.
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