Dear everybody,
Sorry not to have written for so long but I've not really had much to write
about. The hair went a month after I finished with the chemo and although it
had thinned out, it was still there. But for a few days my hairline had been
receding at an alarming rate so I shaved what was left off. My god I'm a
handsome chap without hair, I should have done it years ago. The chemo
didn't work all that well, the tumour had shrunk but not by all that much,
minimal as Dr Death put it but at least it didn't grow.
I had a PET scan, that's where they fill you up with a radio active liquid
and then take x-rays to see which bits of you glow in the dark. The nurse
who filled me up with the liquid had to show me the way to the x-ray place
wouldn't walk beside me as I was radio active, she had to walk five yards in
front of me. This is the same sort of treatment I've received from women all
my life; maybe I've always been radioactive.
I then went on to radio therapy. It was much more civilized, no needles but
I had to go in five days a week for five weeks, it was like having a job! I
went to hospital and back every day by taxi, most of which was paid by my
insurance. My appointments where always at different times of the day, from
7am to 5pm. towards the end of the treatment, which finished last week, I've
been feeling a bit knackered, I think they may have over cooked me.
As for alternative remedies, I tried ayahuasca; it is a psychotropic
medicine made up of various vines and leaves from the Amazonian rain forest.
The idea is that you go on a sort of vision quest. It reminded me somewhat
of rough cider that has gone off a bit in as much as it causes projectile
vomiting. I was expecting to be talking to the Great Penguin but ended up
cleaning the bathroom. It was a bit of a damp squid so I'm going to try that
one again.
I've found a few amazing "cures" on line. Sun soup, packages of herbs that
you add to your favourite soup every day. You can order this on line but you
must pay in cash and the company refuses to say what it will cost you. My
favourite, become a vegan, refuse all medicine and take coffee enemas four
times a day. Several Texan mice have benefited from eating mung bean sprouts
