Isolating By Myself

I now have been totally isolated by myself, away from family and friends, for 10 days.  My wife drops food off and I wave.  We have a conversation for a bit from about 20 feet away.  Then she has to leave.  But it makes sense - she works in a hospital and it is too risky for me.  After 9/11 I was determined never to sit on the sidelines when something happened, and I became a volunteer EMT a little over a year later.  Unfortunately I have to sit this one out.

I am getting into my exercise routine again.  When my race got cancelled and I started to prepare to the isolation that was coming, dropped a bit on the training.  Swimming is off the table as gyms close down, but I am running and biking.  Bike is on indoor trainer.  Run is mostly treadmill, though on nice days, I try to sneak out - the only time I am outdoors.  When I do run outside, it is pretty easy to move 20-30 feet away the rare times I see people during the run.  Today I did a 3.19 mile run.

My breathing is okay, all things considered.  The exercise helps keep them clear.  I am waiting to see if I can go into a trial.  The virus is slowing the things down because they do not want patients coming in as an overall concept. Plus the trial I may get into requires a biopsy, which falls into elective kind of situation. There may be waivers for that.

 The kicker in all of this is that I was considering going back on FOLFOX instead of going for radiation in the hope in knocks everything down, with less risk in some respects compared to radiation, but I can't right now.

The trial is FOLFOX with an immunotherapy component.  My last chemotherapy cannot be FOLFOX, because if it is, then I cannot be in the trial.  So right now I am back to exercising and buying time.  Obviously I cannot maintain the status quo forever by this, but hopefully I can get an answer and/or things settle out a bit.  But it is going to be awhile before the virus is gone.

I have a feeling that I will not be really able to see family or friends for for months at this point.  The internet and technology makes it better.  And like everything else since the cancer thing started, I am just rolling with it and I am okay.