Anticipating the Bus
This week provided a poignant example to share with you some of the emotional toll of staring down a bus intent on hitting you (see post Ten Years! ). As I mentioned in a previous post, I've had a cough since starting my current treatment, which is keeping me up at night and making me exhausted all day. At first, I thought it might be an allergic reaction to the treatment (this treatment has a higher risk of allergic reaction than others I've been on), but as it's continued on for weeks and weeks, I've started to fear the coughing is the result of known treatment side effects - either interstitial lung disease or pneumonitis. Scary diagnoses. Or maybe it's just an allergy. I don't know, but when you have cancer, these are the kinds of things that go through your mind with every little symptom. Finally, I decided I needed to reach out to my oncologist to see if there was something they could suggest for treating the cough. I'd tried cough drops, cough syrup,...
