{"id":5569,"date":"2025-09-26T17:26:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=5569"},"modified":"2025-09-26T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:26:48","slug":"the-current-thing-skipping-over-some-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/26\/the-current-thing-skipping-over-some-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Current Thing–skipping over some stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I want to start by thanking everyone who has sent messages of encouragement and prayerfulness–I read and appreciate all of them. If I haven’t responded, it’s because I don’t know what to say, plan to think about it, then seventeen thousand and eight other things get in the way.

And then I need to apologize for not making regular updates. I’ve been tired, and sitting in front of this crappy laptop with the crappy external keyboard is a pain in the butt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The infusions have started<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’ve had two treatments already, ten more planned, always on Thursdays. The clinic is right off the Marienplatz<\/a>, so Mr Radish drops me off and picks me up (I am not allowed to drive myself). After the first one, I came home and slept for two days. Yesterday’s included the “antibody therapy” so it took an extra 90 minutes, but I stayed awake until bedtime.

So far so good; no nausea or vomiting. We’ve had Maultaschen<\/em><\/a> in beef broth for supper on Thursdays (ready-made, like I said, I’m tired) because they are soft and comforting. Sunday after the first treatment, I was up for an outing to Munich with Mr Radish and his parents. The cortisone makes my face redder and hotter than the worst sunburn I ever got at a baseball game, but it only lasts a couple of days and the lidocaine gel that’s been sitting in the fridge for at least four years (it’s smuggled over from Iowa) helps a lot.

Yesterday I was the only woman in the room not knitting for the first hour, until the cold gloves to ameliorate tingling in the hands came out. The first session I read an actual book *gasp* but it was too hard to concentrate in a room full of action, so yesterday I had headphones and podcasts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What no one told me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Last Saturday I had to pee every 45 minutes. Good grief. Totally logical; they’re dropping a couple of Volksfest beers<\/a>‘ of liquid into me and my still-recovering lymph system, but GOOD GRIEF.

Speaking of beer, I have gotten along fine on reduced rations. The alcohol-free wheat beer I had on Sunday was awful, but it was cold and wet on a hot day (everything else on offer at the spot my MIL chose for lunch had too much sugar and\/or citrus, that’s just the way it is here). We went to Regensburg on Wednesday and I had a local dark lager for lunch and it was delicious.

My mother is so disappointed I have proved I am not an alcoholic. Lol. I look forward to something delicious next Wednesday, but as I type this, I’d rather have a mint tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Pocket Pancakes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Wednesday night I made a batch of buttermilk pancakes with chopped walnuts, and they were perfect to pack on Thursday morning in the pocket of my Brewers hoodie, as one does<\/a>. Will continue to do this for the 8 a.m. appointments (the noon appointments are shorter and I can eat before I go).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not making this up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The infusions are made in the Unicorn Apothecary.

No, seriously, the “Einhorn Apotheke”<\/a> in Munich specializes in oncological pharmaceuticals and supplies the clinic.

Draw whatever conclusions you like from that! Lol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pancakes and unicorns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-c-thing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t