Living With Cancer
Hope everyone is staying home and flattening the curve! If you're able to, I urge you to please, please, PLEASE stay home. For all of our sakes, please stay home. My fiance has respiratory issues so he is at high risk for contracting COVID and I am immunocompromised so I am also at risk. I really only leave the house for absolute necessities like groceries and I make sure to sanitize the carriage, keep my distance from the handful of other shoppers when I go at 8AM on Saturday, and I wash my fruit and veggies thoroughly when I get home. I've been exceptionally fortunate that I haven't had any symptoms in the year and a half-ish that I have been dealing with this diagnosis of cancer. Recently I started having some lower back pain. It began as a dull pain or stiffness, and now it's a sharp, battering pain that flares up about once every two weeks or so. It doesn't give me any warning, however. It's not as if I slept wrong in a strange position or lifted an ...