I am sorry that I have not blogged since my return to Germany. I have been catching up on the 3 weeks of my life that I missed, but mostly recovering from the long trip.
Other than being tired, I don't feel much different. Pain is still increasing. I personally feel like the cancer is not growing since the treatment. The doctors in Germany told me that I probably would not be able to tell if it is working for a few months. I got the big Hyperthermia treatment on October 1st. There was what I thought to be an unbilical hernia coming out of my belly button. But the doctors in Germany said that it was a tumor. It is a lot smaller...that's encouragaing. I also have a knot on the left side of my neck, about the size of a small grape, that has not changed in size. So I kind of judge the growth of the cancer by those two things.
There is a lot going on inside of my belly. That is where all of the pain is. Monday afternoon, I could no longer take the pressure and pain and had 2.2 liters of fluid drained off of my abdomen. That felt so much better.
Monday night I could not get the pain under control and I did not want to over medicate with Morphine, etc... So my daughter took me to the ER. I did not want to do this because I knew they would want to admit me...and they did. They ran a few tests and scans and could not find the sorce of the pain other than cancer. So they increased my morphine and a few other things and sent me home.
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