Drew Wohl

The last 7 days of running.  With missing piece of lung and dozens of tumors everywhere in what remains.   Once in awhile I have a tendency to "wander into the weeds" when looking at things on the internet.  You know how it goes.  You click on some information on your favorite band.  Three clicks later you find yourself researching the league leader in stolen bases in the 1948 baseball season.  (Richie Ashburn - 32)  Okay maybe more than once in awhile. I have mentioned this before, but I go into the weeds when looking at cancer treatments.  Today was one such a day.  I saw a post on a board by someone who has a tendency to discuss treatments that are dismissed pretty quickly by a quick search on the internet.  It is hard to ignore though since they couch it in terms of science and make it sound perfectly reasonable, plus pass my pay grade on knowledge.  And they have had success with pursuing these things.  But the plural...

One of the things I say that helps when dealing with  #cancer ,  #chemotherapy   and the rest is having a healthy slight divergence with reality. . For instance I took a short 14 hour nap prior to running 🏃 4.5 miles the other day on the treadmill for  #triathlontraining  followed by a brief 4 hour off and on 😴(Hey I was just disconnected from  #chemotherapy  the day before😂) . But my preferred reality is that I ran 4.5 miles at a decent clip for me the other day. Another reality is that the  #chemotherapy   working is questionable at this point based on scans and that the is a ton of  #cancer  in my lungs with a good sprinkling in my lymph nodes and a couple in my spine for good measure. . My version of reality is signing up for next years  @multirace  Las Olas Sprint  #triathlon   again. My only concession to reality will be doing it as a relay again if needed 😀

My back was feeling better.  I figured that the radiation and the chemotherapy was working and the spinal tumor was shrinking.  Looking at this, I am guessing it means that maybe the tumor in my psoas muscle is shrinking and the pressure in that area is reduced.  But this kind of sucks.  At least it is not epidural.  That would REALLY suck.  Shifting baseline once again.  More cancer is not bad when you find out it is not the kind that is basically terminal real quickly.  As compared to pretty much terminal, but not as quick.  On to the #triathlon this weekend.