Wednesday's Weigh in

Well we only gained 2 lbs this week to settle in at 161. This is good, I have stopped hitting the fast food places in the afternoon for chocolate shakes. The little snack bags Cheryl makes for me helps quite a bit. I've got cashews, peanut M&M's, pretzels, almonds, dried pineapple, and soon to add dried grapes. That takes care of my sweet tooth and the chemo sensitivity is starting to make eating/drinking cold things not so fun anyways.

I forgot to blog this weekend, but I went fishing Saturday up to Strawberry. I wore my ice fishing clothes because it was fucking cold (sorry kids). When we arrived and put Brad's boat in the water it was 24°F and the wind was blowing, so it had to be in the teens or single digits with the wind chill. However, I did catch a really big fish, it was the biggest that I have ever caught on Strawberry. Smiles galore, hopefully the pictures turn out so I can scan them and show all of you. It was a good day fishing for all except Mark who got shutout. He had a couple of bites , but nothing that really hit hard to catch. It was only 29°F when we left and the wind was blowing harder. Despite the coldness, I could barely sleep Friday night. I was so excited to get out with my buds and do something outdoors. This makes me think that with the right clothing, I might be able to ice fish and that would rule!!(it's an eighties thing, not all of you will get it).

There was some bad news Saturday. My old next door neighbor passed away - I believe it was from testicular cancer. He was diagnosed just before we moved to our new location. I never feel old, but I watched Kris grow up from a young boy, to a teenager dumping beer cans in my garbage can, to a young man leaving for the armed forces. He came back to live in his mom and dads house and I got to know him as a husband and father and have a few beers legally. Our kids, around the same age, played together all the time in our circle. He leaves behind a wife and four kids just before the holidays.

Round 4 of chemo is coming this Friday. Watching my Utes crash and burn the last two weeks has been painful, matter of fact the chemo is less painful. Hopefully they can get on track and beat San Diego State. GO UTES!!!! The treatments are going well, no bad sickness other than diarrhea and a little abdominal cramping on the Sunday and Monday after-wards. The tingling in the fingers and toes, and the pain of coldness gets a little worse and lasts longer into the resting time. This will be half way to when they scan me again to see if the treatment is working. I hope it is working, I am not ready to leave Cheryl and Paige yet.

As my new cancer buddy would say, get an attitude and -- Fuck Cancer!!

Talk to you all later,

Jeff