Chemotherapy, Radiologists and Family Doctor Visits

Well, after my Chemo treatment yesterday I came home and ate a light lunch and sat at the computer going through emails and cleaning up some of them. Then I left for the 6-month check up with my Family Doctor Steve and it went quite well. Since my BP was 175/85 at the Chemo Treatment and it was still high at the Visit with Dr. Steve, he decided to put me another BP Med to help with the one I am currently on. So today when I went to the 4 month follow up with the Radiologist, it was only 155/82. Mind you I just taken the BP meds before leaving the house and I drove 20 minutes to Radiologists Office, so the chances of them being completely in my system are slim. Anyhow, I have another appointment with Dr.Steve next Thursday as a follow up and he also wrote an order to have more blood work down for a follow up there. He started asking me questions about how I was feeling and I was just so full of P & V, from the Steroids I was giving during the Chemo, and was joking around with him and I came out and said "I am felling fine and Global Warming should've been addressed 20 years ago!" He started laughing and shaking his head and replied "I think the Chemo is affecting you, or your Crazy!" So I was happy to hear the Family Doctor tell me that I was crazy, so I guess I can take this as my first official conformation on me being crazy, LOL...
I think it was more of Chemo Brain kicking in and making me a little more weirder then my Normal self. I know last night I could not fall asleep right away and Carmen sensed this and we talked a little about our relationship and how I thought it was going. I told her that for everything that we have faced so far we are doing well, even with her being unemployed for a while, we did agree that this has put a bit of strain on things and that if she could find a job it would help out a little more with the fiances.
Today at the Radiologists Office, the Nurse Practitioner checked me over and said how well I looked and was doing great. Carmen and I did express some concern over the last PET Scan results and how the Chemotherapy Doc Schaefer, devaited from the report and said the noidals in my lungs where not the size as reported, since he looked at them while I was there and meassured them to be smaller. The Nurse Practitioner did show us the written report and did comment on the report being a very goos one with no new formations in the lungs or anywhere else and did mention that the initial radiation treatment site was still a little radioactive and that it was shown on the report, but not of any concern. She also mentioned that the office was in the process of getting the PET Scans so that they can look them over and give me a clear picture of what has transpired since May. Carmen and I was able to see the PET Scan from May and went over that one in detail with the Nurse Practitioner and she was really upbeat about what was seen there being good. I have an appointment next Thursday afternoon to see the Radiology Doc Rubin and gets his "official" word on the PET Scan. I feel a little more comfortable knowing that with the clarification I am on my way to being Cancer Free.
Speaking of Cancer Free, what is it with Christina Applegate going on National TV and claiming that she is "Officially Cancer Free" after going through her Breast Cancer Treatments and Surgery? Don't get me wrong I admire a Celebrity who comes forward to admit that they have a disease like any other Normal Human, but to say that she is Cancer Free after just completing the Treatment phase is pretty naive'. She still has to go through the 3-6 month check ups like the rest of us and after 1 year the doctors will start relaxing a little more, but not until she has survived 10 years can she proclaim 100% assured that she is Cancer Free. I know this since my older sister had been diagnosised with Breast Cancer over 11 years ago and she went through all the Therapies and Surgery, then was happy to be able to be around to see her 60th birthday. Enough with this and lets get on with our lives now.
I am finally starting to get crossed eyed from typing this and see that it is after midnight and should have been in bed about an hour ago, but I was wired still from having a old friend stop over and ask my assistance in locating some music for a cousin of his. Needless to say I was able to find the music like he did, but it looks like it will have to be bought off of the Rhapsody website and downloaded and burned to a CD. He admitted that this was a short notice type of attempt, since his cousin was suppose to get with him sooner. Anyhow, we tried and came up wth the same results and he will be handling it frome here, knowing that I will help him out if needs it.