ReyGuy:
This is where it began. Difficulty eating sent me to Dr. Smith who watched about 20 seconds of my selfie video trying to choke down a Whataburger and turned it off and said see Dr. Ben Kahn. Real soon. So I did. And I certainly wasn't expecting Stage-4 ca
ReyGuy:
Well, I got behind on posting and this will be more than most care to know Snapped this one right after my nurse got the first drug, Herceptin, flowing. In Sammons my phone wouldn't work from the chemo chair but did when I went across the room. That's wh
ReyGuy:
#cancerchroniclesguy it wasn't very crowded last Thursday at Sammons. For a lot of reading done in four hours. #cancersucks #chemotherapy
ReyGuy:
Four drugs over four hours. Plenty of time for reading. Great doctor and nurses at Texas Oncology. #cancersucks #cancerchroniclesguy
ReyGuy:
Ellen gets my port ready. Waiting for a nurse now to hook me up for the first chemo session. Game on! #cancersucks #cancerchroniclesguy
ReyGuy:
I don't know what it is but it better work. Cytotoxic to the bad cells in there #cancerchroniclesguy #cancersucks
ReyGuy:
Chemotherapy waiting area. Jigsaw puzzle for killing time. #cancerchroniclesguy #cancersucks
ReyGuy:
@coperryphoto it was contrast material I had to drink for the PET scan. #cancer sucks #cancerchroniclesguy 9/9/2016
ReyGuy:
#cancersucks #cancerchroniclesguy #waitingroom #television droning until I shut it off. Who needs it? 9/9/16
ReyGuy:
My rock. #cancersucks #cancerchroniclesguy waiting to meet Dr. Paulson, the oncologist, for the first time Friday 9/2/16
ReyGuy:
Prep room for port installation this morning. 7:00 in Addison. Ugh. 9/19 #cancerchroniclesguy #cancersucks
ReyGuy:
Tammy and Elaine. Great service. I have a port now for the upcoming chemo. #cancersucks #cancerchroniclesguy 9/19/16
ReyGuy:
Showing me what the port will look like in my chest. I hope my lips look as good. 9/19/16 #cancersucks #cancerchroniclesguy
ReyGuy:
Light reading while waiting to see the radiologist. Emperor of all Maladies - A Biography of Cancer #siddharthamukherjee #cancersucks #cancerchroniclesguy 9/19/16
ReyGuy:
Radiologist Granger Scruggs explains the findings of the PET scan. His father is a radiologist too and my oncologist's father is an oncologist too. #cancerchroniclesguy #cancersucks 9/19/16
ReyGuy:
This one had to be in color. PET scans show the heat profile of cells and cancer cells grow faster and show more "heat" than normal. White hot is bad. The circle near the spinal cord is the tumor in my esophagus. The mass at left is my liver. The good new
ReyGuy:
Lab work. First order of the day. I have good veins. I even sold my plasma several times in college when I was desperately poor. Now I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams in so many ways. #cancersucks #cancerchroniclesguy
ReyGuy:
Four vials of blood. Lab work first thing. Visited w doc. First chemo session is next. #cancerchroniclesguy #cancersucks
ReyGuy:
Cancer patients by the score here. Life in the big city. #cancerchroniclesguy #cancersucks
ReyGuy:
#cancerchroniclesguy Four friends from the hood (1960's that is) dropped by today. Mark lives in California now. Chris is in Florida most of the time and Fred is still in Richardson. Thanks guys!
ReyGuy:
Dr. Scruggs explained radiology options during my consultation a couple weeks ago. The PET scan is visible on the screen at left and the esophageal tumor is the white circle and the mass above and to the left is my liver. To the right of that is the norma
ReyGuy:
#cancerchroniclesguy A page from the book I'm reading about the long history of cancer. As many of you know, I've had a mental illness a whole lot longer than this physical ailment. In 1991 I had my first of many bouts of severe depression and was diagno
