I thought I was going to. I was supposed to. I was minutes away from getting one. I wish I got a tattoo today. Let me back up. Last Monday was my last chemotherapy treatment. I didn’t really celebrate much apart from a few classier-than-normal-dinners, because I was still dealing with the side effects, and, …
Monthly Archives: September 2011
SavageMan 70.0 Triathlon 2011 Race Report
I’m often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I’m running? I don’t have a clue. –Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running I’ve had a lot …
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Finished
Had my (hopefully) last chemo treatment EVER yesterday. It was rather uneventful itself, with no fanfare or celebration, because there’s still a week of side effects to suffer through one last time. And even then, I still have a month of radiation treatments coming up – I meet my radiation oncologist for the first time …
Stopping to smell the flowers
There is this untamed field right off the strip mall next to my oncologist’s office. No doubt it’ll be paved over at some point in the near future, but low economic activity and cheap rent have spared it thus far. It’s part prairie, though not quite like we had in Illinois, part swamp (I guess …
It goes all the way to 11
Not sure if it’s my level of caffeine intake or the needle sticking out of my chest, but I squirm in my chair every other week when getting chemo. This latest round has been pretty “normal” as far as things go. It took me 15 minutes to get out of bed this morning. Not because …