Day 54 - Going Bald

09:00
Another blood giving day :-(
So many needles.

I slept from 22:00 last night till 07:30 this morning. Almost normal. But then tomorrow is chemo day, so I should be almost normal.

Lots of hairs all over my pillow. Maybe some of my hair is falling out.

Yesterday and today I am coughing up thick, chunky, white things about the size of a piece of corn. Maybe 5 yesterday, and 3 so far today.
So I asked/searched my "friend" Google about.... "Chemo cancer coughing white chunks" and got 158,000 hits. Isn't that amazing?
Consensus is that fast growing normal cells in the lungs, are being killed by the chemo. I hate the fact that chemo is killing healthy parts of me. But unfortunately, that is where the big money is for the medical profession.

I also found a very interesting article that said chemo made one lady very dehydrated. It made her very tired and sleep all the time. Even though she drank a few liters of water a day, she had to have an IV drip to recover.  I already force drink 2 liters a day, every day. I will up my water intake by 2 liters a day more, and see how that changes my tiredness.

My new solar system box is working great :-)

My mission for the day is to try to find new, better seat belts for the beetle.
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19:15
I combed my hair before going out this afternoon, and found lots of hair in the comb. :-(

I bought seat covers and seat cushions for the beetle. Sitting it it is now much better.
Seat belts will be harder to upgrade, as they changed the design in 1980 to 4 attachments instead of 3.

Fantasy football is a time consuming operation this year. My team sucks. I did win last week by a substantial margin. :-) I am 1 win - 2 loose.

I tried to pull out some hair from my head, and got a hand full. It left a small bald patch. So I decided to cut all my hair off.

    




















I was going to lable the pictures "before" and "after", then thought Duhh!
Of course cutting my hair short won't help that much. Now I will just get smaller hairs everywhere. :-) I need to shave my head. And my eyebrows...and my pubes.

Today was a pretty good day. :-) So it must be chemo tomorrow. :-(

I called the Hospital and asked about overnight parking. They say they charge R35 a night. So if I drive the beetle there, and walk to fetch the beetle a few days later, it will be much cheaper than a taxi.

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