Day 1

I am currently sitting in a blue recliner, Jennifer is sitting to my right and my father is to her right. It's 11:20am and i have been hooked up for about 20 minutes (currenly saline before they add the chemicals). So far, it has not been too bad, with the exception of the nurse attaching the needle to the port. Since my chest is brused from last Thursday's procedure, it really hurt when she pressed the neddle into the port. I tried to pull back a little and soon realized that it was not helping so I just push my chest out as she clicked the needle (and it's housing) into the port. This will stay in the port for the entire week and come out Friday afternoon. I will take a picture of it and post My father just took a picture of the room and I will try to post soon.

When we arrived, there were 3 other people getting their treatment and I avoided looking at any of them. I seem to be decades younger and dont feel like engaging them yet and maybe not at all. I have the Ipod on and will bring a book or movie(Briley has a portable dvd player) in later this week. It's pretty boring and that is okay for now. Maybe I should appreciate the time right now as these days might get tougher over the next few months.

I do wonder how my body will take this medicine. Most of you know (especially if you saw my picture from last week) that I am in good physical health and i'm curious to see where I end up. Last Thursday morning, i weighed in at 178 pounds and wonder if I will go down 10 or 20 pounds. In Lance Armstrong's book, he said his body was totally different after the chemo and that helped him with his cycling. Last May, I played in a 24 hour charity Hockey event to raise money for Children's Hospital. I was exhausted after the event and it took me a few weeks to recover which, after fining out I was sick, made sense. I plan on playing in the 2nd annual 24 hours of Hockey next May and expect to be physically ready.

The Nurse just stopped by and will give me some antiboitics and the the Cistplatin in the next few minutes. I have depleated 1 bag of fluids and have 4 more to go.

83 days left.


Sam Williams
Mercury Transaction Services
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