Think of the top 5 or 6 things regarding food that will make you feel like crap. Like maybe pizza gives you heartburn. Or you're alergic to milk or chocolate. Whatever. What, don't have 5 or 6 things? You lucky bastard!

For me here's the top 6 list.

1. not eating on time, when I'm hungry
2. eating small "snack foods" like hor's dourves... because I take fiber supplements with every meal, but usually not when eating hor's dourves or snacks.
3. greasy food / fatty food / fried food
4. high sugar foods like desserts
5. alcohol
6. eating too much

In no particular order, those are the things that make me feel like total crap. They are the things that without fail make life more difficult. They all set me back longer than just the normal recovery time. Drinking alcohol for me isn't just about recovering from a hangover. Hunger pains aren't just about getting some food in me and I'm fine. In all cases, it's normally a full day or 2 before things start to recover.

With that in mind, Thanksgiving was good. I didn't make it to the gym that morning, just too much that needed to be done. For the first time, I deep fried a turkey and it came out pretty good. Well first, I was starving during the day (*1), so at some point I started eating some of the triscuits and cheeze that were out (*2). We baked one turkey and fried the other, and both came out really good... and we managed to NOT set the house on fire, so that's an added bonus. Had turkey (some of each) and mashed potatoes with gravy (*3), rolls and butter (*3), and topped it off (*6) with a nice piece of chocolate pie (*4). There was alchohol present but I was not drinking.

It was good, really good. By 8:00 last night, I started feeling like crap. I had some small hope that I'd make it to the gym to work out, but by morning it was obvious that was not going to happen. Still, after an unpleasant few hours this morning, I've been feeling better.

Still no decision on surgery. I've been thinking Tuesday is just too soon, but maybe the next availability, which I think is not the following Tuesday but the one after that, might work. I heard about a "chemotherapy flush" sort of thing today where they stick a hose down you and flush you with chemotherapy chemicals much like you might flush a radiator. I guess it's supposed to kill the cancer by flushing it directly rather than waiting for your blood stream to deliver it or whatever. Do they do that sort of thing? Would it work in my case? All very good questions.

-jk