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I got a call from a nurse at the cancer research center and I go in Monday for the initial paperwork, insurance, and so on junk. I should start treatment the following week, unless something screwy comes up in a blood test, but it looks like I should qualify. Now, this experimental treatment is very broad in scope, being used for breast cancer as well, so it may do nothing for me. But, I have been getting better, I guess, on my own lately. Not only did my CEA drop by a huge margin, my lymph nodes are not bothering me as much and I have not had to take as many pain pills. Thursday night, my appetite kicked in and after I ate dinner, I was hungry again. So, at 10:30 pm, I whipped up 4 eggs, some cheddar cheese, milk, salt, pepper, and made scrambled eggs that I had with 3 strips of bacon and a big glass of skim milk.
Aside from being tired, I am feeling greatly improved. I have to work on some more firewood with the chainsaw tomorrow, but my buddy Chipp is coming to do the most of it. If I feel okay, I will go out later with him and another friend, Dave, to KC Bier Company's third anniversary bash for some fine brews and good German and Austrian food.
Oh, and in other news, I have finished finding directions from my hotel in London to 15 pubs and other points of interest. I am very pleased that so many pubs are close to the others and the furthest is a mere 1.1 miles away. There would be two times where I'd have to take a cab, going to Bailey's Fish and Chips for the best in the area and to the Royal Albert Hall, but even those two are 2.1 and 2.2 miles away. I checked and the cab fare would run from 12 to 15 pounds, so that is under 20 bucks since the exchange rate is .8 dollars per pound now. The thing that excited me most is how close I will be to the Hammersmith Apollo, also called the Odeon, where so many famous groups played in their up and coming days, from the Who, Led Zeppelin, The Stones, Black Sabbath, Hendrix, and on and on.
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