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My Battle with Merkel Cell Cancer

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Posted by docshu at 05:09PM (-07:00)<br />

Progress Report 5 Months After <strong>My</strong> Tumor is<br />

Discovered<br />

Saturday, October 02, 2010<br />

There is not much new to talk about. I have lost more weight, down to 163 1/2 today. This<br />

is about 15 pounds since May. I still have little appetite and although my taste buds are<br />

returning, most foods have some taste, but not to my liking. Boost plus, chocolate tastes<br />

good. Most other foods are not intolerable but not good.<br />

Here is my photo, 50 days following radiation.<br />

You can hardly tell which side was irradiated.<br />

Here is my photo from the last week of treatment from my drivers license. Pardon the<br />

blurryness, as I used the camera on my laptop and it can't do close-ups.<br />

I was a redneck.<br />

We are on our way east on Wednesday. I go to Montreal to visit my mother and Judy<br />

goes to Philadelphia to visit our son, daughter-in-law and their two youngsters, including<br />

Eli, our first grandson.<br />

I will join her in Philadelphia a week from Monday and we return the following Sunday.<br />

<strong>My</strong> bridge results continue to be good, coming first in the last 4 club games played, <strong>with</strong><br />

two different partners.<br />

Go Giants. Can't you win ONE more game?<br />

Here is a photo of me <strong>with</strong> Rocky, our Goldendoodle. He did not like sitting in the chair<br />

<strong>with</strong> me.<br />

<strong>My</strong> <strong>Battle</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Merkel</strong> <strong>Cell</strong> <strong>Cancer</strong><br />

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