I thought January was a bad month because I spent more money than I planned, but compared to what's been happening lately, I don't know why I thought that was even a concern. To begin with, Edie hasn't been doing that good. The drug she's been taking for the past several months, Carfilzomab , is starting to take its toll, and her neuropathy seems to be getting worse. She's having more trouble just getting around, and climbing stairs is particularly daunting. Then this morning I learned a friend, the person who built our back patio, and the husband of the girl I worked with for over 20 years, died this morning. He had gone in for, what I thought would be, a routine double heart valve replacement on the 19th of February. Unfortunately that just wasn't the case. He was on the table for about 8 hours, and on the pump for almost 5 hours. (By contrast, my entire operation lasted 3 hours 14 minutes, and I was on the pump for only 42 minutes.) It was then discovered on...
The ramblings of a mantle cell lymphoma and bypass surgery survivor, and then some