Done Voted

Feeling a bit better today then yesterday - cramps are gone and I'm just a bit nauseas, nothing I can't handle tho. One thing I've heard that is good for dealing w/nauseau is actully acupunture so I'm going to look into finding an acupuntutrist and try to set something up over the next couple of days.

Took today off of work, I had a whole bunch of things which needed tending to, including voting, so I decided it was a good use of a leave day. Voting involved going out to m/so because I still list there as my primary residency (they even tried drafting me for Jury Duty a few weeks back). Since I was out there, I hooked up w/Dave and Jerry for lunch; we went to the irish pub (sorry Peter) and I got some fantastic fish and chips as a way to counteract Sunday's culinary incident.

Of course the first thing I did today was radiation. Going to radiation at the same time every day, I've started to run into the same people in the waiting room and cancer patients actually tend to be pretty friendly people, by and large, as we're all going through this together. The hardest thing about being there every day is that I've started seeing a number of kids who are also going through treatment and it breaks my heart every time. As I understand it, kids have to take lower doses of treatments and so their therapy gets extended out over a longer period of time - I don't know how they do it. As I was waiting today, a kid comes running into the waiting room followed shortly by his mother. A few minutes later, their nurse comes walking in and starts making some small talk w/them which goes something like "So, what are you going to do today afterwards?" to which the mother reponds "Oh, we're going to the zoo in central park - not the biggest zoo but it's close" and the nurse says "oh that'll be fun, it's a nice day for it" and the mother says "this weekend the ronald macdonald house is going to take us to the bronx zoo and I've heard that's pretty big" and so on until they left a few minutes later. When I got home, the first thing I did was to go online and make a donation to the ronald macdonald house charity - kinda figured it help pay for that kid to go to the zoo. It then hit me that, once I've gotten through this, I need to give back to the cancer community by getting involved in some kind of volunteer work or fundraising or activism - it's just the right thing to do. And I expect you all to keep me honest on this.

cheers,

--Dr. D