Here, just take this little pill......

So, today I just started after circling around the little brown pill, my brave knight which will (hopefully) do battle with the unwelcome visitor. ("Sir Chemo"....??) Of course, when he slings his sword around and uses the lance, there are sometimes other impacts on the body. I think, having taken the pill, I expected an instant response and of course there wasn't one. So, like before, you have to just go on living "one day/hour/minute-at-a-time".

It's a good day to start chemo, since it is raining out and I wanted to stay home anyway. It really is deceptively easy, they tell you: "just take the pill....if there is anything that develops in your body, let us know.....we'll check back with you in two weeks" (check your blood, take CT scans, etc. etc.).

This is not quite what I had in mind when I retired.

A note: I want to thank you all for your concern and your offers of help, etc. It makes it a lot easier to go through this process knowing that you are out there. I will feel free to stay in touch and to ask for the things I need. What you can do is just keep in touch with me....that makes all the difference in the world.

I am thinking seriously about leaving this house sometime this spring. It will take a while to do it and certainly (at some point) some labor, but I think it is time. It may be that the chemo process will be just the thing to push me out of my "den".