Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Hank finishes chemo

 

This fellow isn't me, Roy Bauer, of course, but he will be very familiar to educators because of his omnipresent "Crash Course" YouTube videos and similar productions. Hank Green got cancer a while back and has just finished his chemo infusions.

His cancer seems to be more serious than mine, though my chemo has taken much longer (nearly 6 months). My treatment—involving 6 cycles—was paused for a month and a half because "my blood hates the chemo." as my oncologist likes to say.

I think Hank's remarks are very helpful in communicating what it's like to go through chemo. His experiences have been—and continue to be—very similar to my own.

I now have a bad cold (I think)—came down with it during a recent stay at Hoag Irvine Emergency (I suffered critically low hemoglobin and received a transfusion)—and it remains to be seen what that will mean, given that I am so immunocompromised. Chemo patients are sitting ducks.

I tested for Covid today and at least I don't have that. Whew!

Hang in there, everybody!

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...