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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Hard to believe it is 2012, but that is what the date says!

Things have been going along pretty good, so there has been no incentive to really write anything much. I finished half way through the radiation therapy yesterday (and chemo too), so, I begin part two next Monday. I have had no side affects except for getting tired from not enough sleep. The steroid pill causes me to be wide awake at 4:00 a.m. after about 6 1/2 hours of sleep, so I get up. Then after breakfast, about 8:00 a.m. I often feel the need for a short nap before heading off for treatment.

My diet has been pretty good. We try to keep it as alkaline as possible, with fruits and vegetables and turkey, chicken and fish for the protein. I also am getting used to tofu - it tastes great in stir fry, etc. I drink lots of green tea and water and that helps too. I usually spread breakfast food over the morning from the time I get up to about 7:00 a.m. and then we have a substantial lunch. Lately we have been making a "green drink" for dinner - about a cup of veggie and apple/pear freshly ground in our new juicer.

One of the side affects of "something" is that I am still constipated. Can't figure it out, but it sure is frustrating. Seems like something ought to work. I have decided yesterday to OD on magnesium until I have diarrhea and then to back off. We'll see if that works at all. Constipation has been a life long problem, so it is nothing new, but now it worries me a lot.

When we finish the radiation treatments this month we plan on driving to Southern California and then to Gulf Port for the convention there. On the way we plan on stopping and seeing Dr. Bryzinski in Houston for his medical clinic. I have decided to give him a try. We should return home by the last weekend in March.

That's about it for now. I probably raised a lot of questions in people's minds, so send me some emails and ask!

For now, thank you all for your prayers and good thoughts.

Rom 13:9-14
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.