First Update

Congratulations for finding my Blog. I was encouraged by a very close friend Kara to create a blog to give everyone updates, provide some amusing anecdotes about my adventure and to keep the creative juices flowing in me - I need a video camera not fonts and words but I will give it my best.

I feel like a script writer in "LOST" needing to go back in time to create the context for the events of today. So forgive me if I digress (not today) but I would say I'm on Chapter III, "Chemo and Radiation Begins".

For the next five weeks, every day I'm at UMC promptly at 8:50 am for Tomotherapy radiation treatment. But before that, 30 minutes after eating breakfast I take four "Cap a side of bean - my translation" or commonly called the chemo pills, which because I am so pragmatic I have to say costs about $20 a pill. I will be taking 210 pills by the end of week five, Thank you. United Health Care prescription plan -for me only a co-pay of $20 dollars. But let me say this radiation machine is very precise, referencing the exact location by three tattoo's I proudly now have on the sides and front of my stomach. Each treatment requires some fine adjustment, and in I go into this cylinder, hearing this small locomotive sound move around my torso, six minutes where I get the feeling that my tummy is cooking. I've played three golf courses in my mind -places that give great peace. today was Roseland, yesterday Ridgetown and on Monday Indian Hills. I'm feeling OK after the treatment, driving myself back to the house and laying low. Forget about swimming right now which I originally thought could be a part of my daily routine. Maybe next week. But today, I've started my blog.

I do hope you enjoy and find some connection as I retell me "Mixing it up with PC".