Cancer-Spikes

Friday we put together our new toy we got at Sacred Heart Prep (I am the varsity coach there). The new toy is an Aircat: a ball tossing machine that uses air pressure to power the tossing mechanism...it can set to a very consistent location and it is so cool. It has a remote control, so I can push a button to tell it to set a ball. This is one of the coolest things I've ever been around. Since it is the coolest thing ever, I HAD to go for some real spikes. Even though my vertical is somewhere around 6 inches now (it used to be a lot better) I was able to hit some really hard cancer-spikes and it felt great. Granted it is on a girls height net, but they were still some decent hits. I felt no residual pain in my hip, so my doctors say this is ok for me to do.

My cough is slowing down and my middle finger rash is pretty much a goner. So I think I'm going to be clear to get my last injection of chemotherapy this Wednesday, August 2 - the day of the start of my vegetable eating unfortunately. I have an appointment with a really good radiation oncologist tomorrow, Monday. He will give advice on how we are going to shoot me with the radiation. We are sure to at least shoot my hip, but we are not sure if we are going to shoot some radiation through my sternum into my backbone too. We will have to decide if the trade-off is worth it; that is, we will see if the benefit of irradiating my bones is worth the downside of all the organs it will shoot in the process; some radiation will go through my heart and some of my other somewhat important inerts.