I have chemo today, as usual my days and nights are messed up. It is near midnight now and I am going to bed in a minute and hope to sleep.

The chemo episode was different today. My oncologist and I had quite a talk. He said I am a very unique patient in that I am tolerating a very heavy regimen of chemo and thriving on it. He is pleased that I am putting on weight, now thirty pounds. I am not so pleased. I want to go on a diet to lose it. I am opposed in this effort by both Nutri-Nazi and my oncologist. We'll see.

My oncologist also bought a motorcycle, some sort of bike I am not familiar with. But he said it had a wide back tire and lots of chrome and fancy paint. Probably not a road bike, more of a showboat. But we talked riding and we even discussed whether I could haul ass for Sturgis after chemo completes. I thought about it and ruled it out. For one thing Sturgis starts before I finish chemo and second the price had gone up significantly. Maybe another adventure will suffice. But I told him about my other trips to Edmonton Alberta and to Monterey CA. We'll see what I do to celebrate finishing chemo.

Chemo for me may end this August. We talked about the follow up, something he doesn't get to do very often with a pancreatic cancer patient. Follow up is a wait and see episode. I may still get noxious fluids dumped into me at times but more of a minimal dosage. He is going to have to research it, like I said, this is sort of a new venture for a pancreatic cancer patient of his.

The actual chemo session was a mess. They fought with the Medi-port for an hour or more before they put a blood thinner in to clean it out. Then to demonstrate that it worked they pulled some blood up into the test syringe and injected it back into my artery. Strange sight to see, but I have gotten used to a lot of things lately. I am a trained lab rat by now, experienced in all sorts of things cancer related.

My blood cell counts are still low, just not dangerously low. A comfort to me but a concern to Nutri-Nazi. There was little concern about my blood test results so we proceeded to dump highly toxic and very expensive chemicals into my body to ensure the pale green glow that I have made my own fashion statement. And of course the treatments all made me very tired so I came home and slept for a few hours. I got up and made up a recipe for potato and leek soup that turned out delicious, nice sauce and consistency. Now I will try to sleep through the night. No small feat when you have alien growths attacking your organs and toxic chemicals coursing through your blood stream to fight them. But I try, Damn do I try. Three day weekend ahead, got to mow the lawn, do some more maintenance. Maybe even take a long walk.

To do any of that I need to get to bed and actually sleep. Goodnight folks. I intend to make tomorrow another productive day.