Metaldams made a comment in a PM that made me realize it's been several months since I posted an update, and since a lot has been happening I decided that I should share it here as well.
Just to recap, throughout 2022 I was receiving quarterly injections of a drug call Luprin, and taking a daily dose of bicalumatide, which shuts down the production of testosterone, which is turn starves the prostate cancer. So far, so good, and I even had a consultation in late December with a Radiologist to discuss radiation therapy to finish the cancer off.
But life interfered. It turns out that when you buy a nice, brand-spanking new van from a dealership, they give you the cheapest set of tires they can get away with (at least if you're not paying attention.) We hadn't noticed before, but when winter hit we realized that the tires were practically bald. Radiation therapy would require me to make an 80-mile round trip down into the city for the 20-minute procedure every weekday for a month, and I wasn't prepared to do that in a west Michigan winter on bald tires. So that all got put on hold until we could get new tires (we did, btw) and/or the weather improved.
And in the meantime my work life suddenly became a hell of a lot busier. The hospital I work for decided to shift all of their current database systems into a unified Oracle cloud system, and it has turned out to be a much bigger project than they initially anticipated. They know that I have database and SQL experience (I've been running my own server for the finance department for 20 years), so I got recruited to help them extract data for the conversion. It's (for me, at least,) fun and challenging, as I've never worked with any of those databases before, nor the applications that use them, and they have little or no documentation for them. So I get to blindly grope in the dark, so to speak, trying to figure out where the data we need to extract is stored. It's always so satisfying when you realize that you are finally pulling together the right data! lol
But that's been keeping me distracted, and I suddenly realized this past weekend that I couldn't remember going down to the city in January to get my quarterly Luprin injection. I checked my Google calendar (I've always been absentminded, so I rely on it to remember things I need to do,) but the last entry was for the appt. back in October. I always make my next appt. while I'm there at the urologist's, and I usually enter it into my Google calendar before I leave, but I must have gotten distracted in October and forgot to do it.
So, anyway, I called the urologist's on Monday, told them what happened, and scheduled an appointment for today to get the injection. But when the nurse called me yesterday to confirm the appt., I told her what had happened (apparently whoever I talked to Monday didn't pass it on) and she sort of freaked, since it's been 5 months since my last injection. I guess there's a specific sequence for these injections, and apparently since I went so long since the last one we have to start over again. So I'm re-scheduled now for this coming Tuesday to re-start the injections, and I'll probably have to get more blood work done. Oh well.
So that's my news. I'm feeling okay - I mean other than getting more arthritic, cracking and creaking when I stand up and move, having little energy and absolutely NO sex drive - but otherwise I'm fine. lol
