Rollin' on a Riva'

It's like this, second last day of chemotherapy ever!!! I lost the first meal in over a month today, my stomach just wasn't in the right place this morning, and it's the accumulation of chemicals starting to take affect. But I took my Zofran($21.00 a shot from the pharmacy...Craziness) and do not feel nauseated at the moment. Unfortunately, with the fluid that has been pumped through my system 24/7, again, have I started to retain it. I will not, however, balloon up over 40lbs. again. I can be put on another drug to help me urinate the excess fluid of my body. On my nights away from the hospital, I get to carry a small fluid pump and like a forty-pound "man-bag" (it's realy cool) that countains the three litre sac of Salene that will be infused over the night until returning to the hospital.

Back here at the hospital not a lot goes on, I can play on the computers like I am doing now, play my guitar that hasn't seen that much improvement in the last three months that I have had it, but slow and steady. I a had a lesson on Thurday, and my insructor gave me something to work on. I have books to read, "yummy" food to eat, a treadmill to walk on, excercises to do, the odd drug to swallow, or gag down, but really not a whole lot realy goes on.

Right now the hospital's fire alarms are going off, I guess there is a fire six floors down in the basement, but for sure it does not compare to the urgence of a fire bell ringing in a school, that would be really chaotic in a hospital if everyone had to leave the building for a miniscule fire down in the basement.

Bone Marrow/Stem Cell transplant scheduled for this weekend, bone marrow/cancer is being slaughtered by the chemo, this news reporter/patient is done telling his stories.

Justin:)

P.S. Thanks for the comments, keep 'em coming, if you want to.