He's watching COPS again

Normally I'm against COPS. The tv show. Jim loves it. COPS is to Jim what red wine is to me. It's a total tune-out without a morning hangover. I personally dislike COPS. The people on the show get themselves into all sorts of trouble that could easily be avoided. In the last few years, I've noticed that COPS really grates on my nerves because there's always some poor child crying in the background while his mother is getting hauled off to jail. It's the child factor that bothers me.

Jim is very tolerant of my red wine habit. I'm minimally tolerant of COPS. I'm extra tolerant when the situation calls for mental TLC - he's not feeling great, the only thing he can seem to stomach right now is cereal, and the dogs are stinking up our family room. (That was for you, Artemis!) He gets to watch COPS continuously when he's feeling like this.

Things are going fairly well, all things considered. He's rating his nausea at a 5 on a 1-10 scale. He said that it's a constant nausea, whereas with his previous regimen, it was huge dips and spikes. He's also very tired. But he got the pump out today, so things should start looking up from here.

He's got to go back in for the shot to boost his white blood cell count tomorrow. They said that it can be very painful. Not the actual shot, but apparently many of our white blood cells are created in our chest and back. Apparently those two areas can get to hurting pretty badly. So we'll see how it goes. He's expecting the pain, and I'm hopeful that this will be like the pulmonary embolism. Where most people feel as though they are having a heart attack with a pulmonary embolism, Jim didn't actually feel anything except a slight tightness in his lower lung. They found Jim's pulmonary embolism on a scan - we didn't know he had it. Any way, I'm hoping he'll either be so focused on the fact that he's nauseated that he won't notice the after-effects of the shot, or he'll be able to transcend the pain as he did with the embolism.

In the meantime, he's welcome to watch COPS if he needs a little mental vacation.