Preparing for my Liver Surgeon Consult using AI

I started my fifth round of chemotherapy yesterday and the medication has been pumping through my body all through the night and will be through Wednesday afternoon. I slept a good 12 hours and I mean a GOOD 12 hours. I have been really trying to manage my use of voluntary pain control meds (Oxycodone), but I definitely needed them before I went to bed last night as my liver was very tender. I am hopeful that the meds administered over the seven hours in the cancer center knocked the comeback activity a bit and the liver mets (short for metastatic) are seeing stars in the ring of battle.

While sitting in the chair, I answered a call from University of Chicago with the best news of the day, my liver surgeon consultation with Dr. Merkow is now virtual and not in person at the University today. I know I’m gonna be really tired and sitting and waiting rooms will be pretty miserable today so I took the opportunity to take it online when they offerewhich now allows my husband to join from Atlanta virtually. Doing this online also gives me the opportunity to actually show the doctor my questions so I’ve been working on that this morning, see my infographic below. I dumped in several documents to create it using Gemini. They are magic for me and every time I create one it just really helps me understand things better.

I’m super sad to see my daughter flying back to Austin (where she lives), she has been so incredibly helpful over the last month that she’s been in town. I want to stay rooted in my gratitude and not sad that I won’t see her running around the house trying to work her remote job while balancing taking me back-and-forth to appointments. I’ll just miss her very much as she is also my chef, always making sure I’m drinking water and encouraging me not to eat the garbage that sometimes I want to. She’s impressed me so much with her deep knowledge of my condition through her own research. She knows the medicines back-and-forth upside down and sideways. She is really taken on the role that I took on for my mom before she passed, she was battling ovarian for the 18 months. Gina comes into my room every few days with these affirmation cards that make us laugh. I have uploaded a few of them here in the post. We will be on FaceTime every day multiple times a day until she comes back. I have such a large support system, so I don’t worry a thing or about getting to and from appointments, but I am trying to get to the point where I’m off enough medication to where I can drive a car again as I haven’t driven in what was now close to 82 days.

I will be sending an update on my liver consultation here soon. These chemo days are the days that knocked me out so I anticipate doing a lot of sleeping. I will be checking this page for my public and private messages every night and absolutely love them so please keep them coming. It’s all I can do to look forward to these notes on my Wall of Love!