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The main reason is Karen's' chest x-ray.

We have been spoiled by having everything go our way with this cancer thing.

And then Mother Nature, who has a reputation for doing this shit to people, pulls the nice red carpet out from under us.

Yep, on the chest x-ray, the main lesion has grown. Not a whole helluva lot, but enough to show that the last drug wasn't effective.

This hit us just as hard as the original diagnosis, dammit. But it really didn't take us long to get our feet back under us... both of us were kinda secretly expecting this, while hoping that we would be proved wrong... and silly.

We talked to the oncology doc, and he wasn't too surprised... he just stated that he has lots of drugs in his arsenal, and he's not afraid to use them.

We do have a lot of confidence in this guy.

So Karen went on to get her new chemo, and I went back to work.

But of course, I can't really think about work, but I've gotta think about it anyway.

And my throat is worse, making it hard to turn my head even. Got some antibiotics on board now, though.

I was able to leave at 15:30, and Karen and I went to the outback and had a nice steak for an early supper.

And I'm on call tonight, and the evening tech leaves at 21:30 and the night tech doesn't get there until 23:00, so I have 90 minutes of vulnerability, dammit.

And I got absolutely no sleep last night, and I'm running on fumes here... and I just read a study on Lunesta™ that said that, on average, people who took it got 40 extra minutes of sleep nightly... not enough to justify the $$, I don't think.