I was already on immunosuppressive therapy for something else, so I'm always neutropaenic. Still, I had a salad as described in going with green cabbage. Nuked a half cup of water, added some torn up cabbage leaves, nuked a minute more, drained and washed in cold running water to shock, then back into a container with some olive oil, salt, mustard and balsamic vinegar and shaken to coat. Was good.
I survived chemo seven years ago and I'll survive it now. Thanks for the trollish-sounding encouragement, though.
One time, I went under for a kidney biopsy. Usually they do those while you're awake. They punch through your lower back to your kidney and you just hold your breath as they do so because your kidneys move with each inhalation. At the time, I couldn't hold my breath long enough because reasons, so they had to put me under and go through a PICC line for it somehow. I'm not a doctor, so I don't know exactly how it was done.
When I woke up, I remember having the distinct taste of Jimmy Dean sage sausage in my mouth which was weird because I'd had no sausage.
Thanks. Sorry for the delay, but I went for a nap.
In October, I was pissing blood, but when I had CT and US, they could find nothing unusual in my kidneys (I have a history of kidney disease). So I went for a cystoscopy, which is where they shove a camera up your dick, and they found stage 0 cancer (which I didn't know was a thing). Stage 0 is so early, they can literally scrape the cancer out of you, which they did. Then they pump your bladder full of water and drain it over and over again.
I had another cystoscopy two weeks ago to check up, and the cancer was back and at stage 1 this time. Too large to scrape, yet too small for excision. So the next week, my med team and I discussed the best treatment options, picked one and here I am.