Liver Labs & Vacation

8 months since diagnosis there was a time when I thought based on statistics 6 months was the best I could hope for. But I guess the 6 month number is based on no treatment. So after months of radiation which apparently didn’t work and sever sessions of immunotherapy which may have worked I am doing okay and continuing with the immunotherapy.

This past week I had a lab appointment as requested by my PCP, I really like my PCP he seems to really care and takes the role as a Primary Care Physician very seriously. For this I am blessed. So because I am taking decodron which opens one up to opportunistic fungal skin infections he put me on oral Lamisil to help clear them up. With this drug one needs to monitor liver function thus the liver lab work. I have not heard the results and if they are good I may not hear anything.

The much more interesting news is our trip to North Conway we had a great time and as I told in the Time Precious Time post last week, this is what I cherish now time spent with loved ones we spent some time shopping and went to Wildcat Mountain and rode the gondola. We also went on a moose watch only saw one but it was a big bull we also saw a couple of skunks and three foxes (not all on the moose tour). We rode the cog railway up Mt. Washington. I climbed the last 10 feet to the summit and it pretty well wore me out. We did a little geo-caching (easy ones). The foliage was pretty good it was a great time. The B&B (Cranmore mountain lodge) http://www.cranmoremountainlodge.com/ was very nice


Now for a couple of pet peeves I understand why people take tours but it can be a little irritating since tour seems to take over places this big group of people arrive all with special arrangements and special entitlements and the problem is the people see to act as if they are entitled I am sure it is just a cultural thing but it can be irritating the other peeve is when you go to a restaurant and there are people the that seem to think you want to hear there conversation they talk so loud that you can’t carry on a conversation yourself this happened twice in a row to us.