It's chemo time! Today I get on with the business of getting this over with. Though I wasn't thrilled with the idea of chemotherapy (who is?) it seems to offer my best hope and so I am embracing it and going forward.
The chemo process wasn't too bad. They hooked a big needle to my port-a-cath, and then started dripping drugs down the pipe. First, they dripped a couple of bags of anti-nausea medicine, good for 5 days. Then, a sack of saline solution just to top me up, and finally a couple of bags of the "helper" drugs for the actual FolFox chemo. Then, a huge syringe of the 5-FU drug, watching me for reactions all the time, and I'm good to go. (Reactions range from itchy palms to sudden death of heart failure. I'm happy to report that I didn't experience any of them.)
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Just a few words from time to time on how I'm doing. Specifically with respect to this little health "speed bump" they call cancer, and maybe about anything else.
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Books I've read recently
- Escape from Lucania, by David Roberts
- Sand in my Bra, ed. by Jennnifer Leo
- Lost in my Own Backyard, by Tim Cahill
- Dance of Death, by Preston & Child
- The Vor Game, by Lois Bujold
- The Warrior's Apprentice, by Lois Bujold
- The Sheriff of Ramadi, by Dick Couch
- Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer
- Farm Sanctuary, by Gene Baur
- The Hunters, by W.E.B. Griffin
- Every Second Counts, by Lance Armstrong
- Above the Clouds, by Anatoli Boukreev
- Arctic Mood, by Eva Alvey Richards
- Tribes, by Seth Godin
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