No, it’s not a false start, but I haven’t progressed with this side of things as I’d hoped. I have things separated a bit, so this blog alone doesn’t provide much context. So here’s what all is going on:

• I’ve been diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. There’s no cure, but it’s treatable. I’m entering the 3rd cycle (month) of chemo treatment, which is going well.
• This cancer has caused an acute kidney injury, requiring me to do dialysis for a while. This is 3 times a week, 4 hours each time. Very time consuming… I can try to work on stuff while I’m there, but often don’t wanna be bothered with the extra, to be frank. The hope is for the kidney’s to recover soon as the chemo does it’s job with the cancer.
• As part of the cancer treatment, after the 4th cycle I’ll be undergoing a stem cell transplant, for which I’ll be my own donor. This process involves a 3-week hospital stay, high dose chemo, and all of the fun that comes with it.
• With that in mind, I need to get some early physical recovery to be as strong as possible going into the transplant, even if it’s just walking and light calisthenics.
• Blogging my cancer fight is becoming more of a priority. Keeping people updated is draining. Also, there are other people out there looking for a fighter’s perspective of treatment to help with tier own battle. So blogging this will be both helpful to me and to others to spread awareness and positivity. I’ll publicize that blog once it’s content-ready.
• Aaaaaaand there’s this tech learning blog. While engaged in the fight, I’m determined to sharpen my mind as well, for personal and career purposes. So using courses via Udemy and other online resources, and leaning on my peers to test my new knowledge is going to increase my nerd wallet.

At first, two blogs and some online courses/coding didn’t seem like much, but now add in the physical recovery goal and I found myself a bit scatterbrained. It doesn’t help that the fitness tasks are in direct conflict with how crappy and utterly drained the chemo makes me feel. Doc says the exercise can help, and it seems like quite contradictory… but as a gym rate, I HATE feeling weak.

Anyway… I’ve had to reprioritize things a bit, but the learning will commence, starting with Python. via Udemy. No excuses. Moving forward, I won’t talk much about the cancer fight here. I’ll link that blog on the side once it’s ready.