Dear Diana
You are right, of course. I will never give up.
Soon after posting my last notice I heard about a woman who had been
undergoing treatment for years, but who has emerged "feeling marvelous". And
she had leukemia combined with some other kind of cancer, and received chemo
very like mine, over and over.
I'm never giving up. But in many directions. I'm certainly not going to give
up asking difficult questions and considering other possibilities.
I know things will get better. And worse. (Just hope they get better for
Chrimstmas!) I know these treatments will go round in circles. But I do want
to talk about them with my hematologist.
Fact is, I only just started. Mine are the complaints of the newly inducted
into the hall of recovery. Again I rejoice in the presence and help of my
friend, the skilled hospital staff, the insurance company (which has finally
begun paying bills!), and the other blessings, such as these exchanges of
correspondence.
Someone mentioned archives. How do we reach them?
Off to bed now.
Pleaseant dreams all. I hardly think I have contributed to them today. But
last night, perhaps thanks to my sleeping pill, I dreamt of a great pleasure
tower a bit like the Guggenheim Museum, and down the hole at the center
flowed marvelous colored baloons, and lining the walls and floors were
elaborate velvet cushions, similarly colored. There was wonderful joyous
music, and the woman who seemed to be running the show, at the center of
everything, looked kind of like Marlena Dietrich at her middle-aged best. Now
what does that have to do with leukemia? I wondered even during the dream. At
least it provides a more cheerful end to this note.
Thanks all. God bless.
-- Ron
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