Chemo in the rainforest

The chemo cycle continues.  Trying to live life deliberately and "normally" in the context of the abrupt leaving the practice, selling the house,  moving far from 2 of my kids, changing from doctor to patient role, ... it's been kinda weird.

But so much support from other people!!  visiting and emailingt and facebooking and praying... THANK YOU!

So to add some normalcy, I made the traditional cookies for the kids and my brother and mailed them off.  Strange even having to make friends with a new oven - cookies can be persnickety.  

Anyway, after my daughter A visited and sampled them, I felt like Martha Stewart, but without a rap sheet.  

Cognitive issues remain frustrating, but my doc here is interested in a research proposal I wrote up. To get neurocognitive measures throughout the chemo cycles, then see what the effects of interventions such as continuing oral calcium.  An IV bolus is given just before the oxalliplatin to minimize peripheral neuropathy, but there does not seem to be anything in the literature about the cognitive effects of the chemotherapeutic agents for gastrointestinal cancers.

Anyway, I am doing a computer based test battery on myself every few days, and also doing a new york times  sunday puzzle each morining - limit 45 minutes, no using the internet, oh, and a daily sudoku - timed.  All I need is to add Tetris to get a measure of visuospacial effects.