Post by Mr. Pooka on Jun 14, 2022 22:48:14 GMT -5
I just wanted to add a real world heads up on a topic to serious for our Heb thread. There's also some brief surgery descriptions which might be to graphic and if you don't wanna read that kind of thing look away now!
So, we got a late start this year and there's been quite a few interruptions but things have been pretty rough on this side of the internet. I wasn't planning on mentioning anything until after the Heb, but Pooka's surgery just got super bumped up and will be interrupting us again. I don't really like drawing to much attention to stuff like this but it is really having an effect on how we've been running things this year and I know I personally keep forgetting things and just vanishing at inopportune times and being all around kind of flaky... but we've got some reasons for that. (besides the dozen doctor visits, 5 hospital visits, 3 out of town medical trips, one invasive surgery and home nurse care. all during the Heb so far.)
This will be Pooka's second surgery during this Heb and is unrelated to the first. And it's an important one. She's having cancer removed from her ear... and by removed it currently looks like the surgery will be removing her ear (one dr. optimistically thinks there might be enough left to hold up her glasses?) and she has to be awake for this one... all of which really sucks, but in the long run is stuff she can deal with cuz she's a superhero. The scariest part, and one of our major reasons for our lack of focus is the after surgery part. Being a very rare spot to get cancer (like 300 in the US a year) they won't know how bad it is until after the surgery. Now there is a very high chance (about 85%) they will get it all out, but there is also a small chance that they won't and that's the really scary part. If they don't get it all out we next turn to radiation (or light therapy) and hope... because if that doesn't work that's the time they give you an estimation of how much longer you may have to live.
This has kept us pretty stressed out and concerned... especially because there is a ton of sitting and waiting. Technically, we've got lots of time to work on things but keeping focus has been the tricky part. I mean, I can't speak for Pooka and she's the one having to get this stuff done but there is so much 'wait and see' and percentages and unknowables that I've been more prone to just walk away from stuff in the middle of things I should be working on or even forget my own plans.
Even having her surgery bumped up is kind of scary as these kinds of procedures are done in order of priority. Are they concerned about her situation or just working through their covid backlog? This kind of stuff just gets in our heads..
So that's where we'll be this coming Friday. If you've got any kind of faith or beliefs or extra good energies it would be cool if you send some her way this week!
So, we got a late start this year and there's been quite a few interruptions but things have been pretty rough on this side of the internet. I wasn't planning on mentioning anything until after the Heb, but Pooka's surgery just got super bumped up and will be interrupting us again. I don't really like drawing to much attention to stuff like this but it is really having an effect on how we've been running things this year and I know I personally keep forgetting things and just vanishing at inopportune times and being all around kind of flaky... but we've got some reasons for that. (besides the dozen doctor visits, 5 hospital visits, 3 out of town medical trips, one invasive surgery and home nurse care. all during the Heb so far.)
This will be Pooka's second surgery during this Heb and is unrelated to the first. And it's an important one. She's having cancer removed from her ear... and by removed it currently looks like the surgery will be removing her ear (one dr. optimistically thinks there might be enough left to hold up her glasses?) and she has to be awake for this one... all of which really sucks, but in the long run is stuff she can deal with cuz she's a superhero. The scariest part, and one of our major reasons for our lack of focus is the after surgery part. Being a very rare spot to get cancer (like 300 in the US a year) they won't know how bad it is until after the surgery. Now there is a very high chance (about 85%) they will get it all out, but there is also a small chance that they won't and that's the really scary part. If they don't get it all out we next turn to radiation (or light therapy) and hope... because if that doesn't work that's the time they give you an estimation of how much longer you may have to live.
This has kept us pretty stressed out and concerned... especially because there is a ton of sitting and waiting. Technically, we've got lots of time to work on things but keeping focus has been the tricky part. I mean, I can't speak for Pooka and she's the one having to get this stuff done but there is so much 'wait and see' and percentages and unknowables that I've been more prone to just walk away from stuff in the middle of things I should be working on or even forget my own plans.
Even having her surgery bumped up is kind of scary as these kinds of procedures are done in order of priority. Are they concerned about her situation or just working through their covid backlog? This kind of stuff just gets in our heads..
So that's where we'll be this coming Friday. If you've got any kind of faith or beliefs or extra good energies it would be cool if you send some her way this week!
