Chemotherapy is Unamerican

I've been fortunate enough to have a few opportunities to travel internationally and it's true: Americans do get a fair amount of grief over their love affair with ice. People just don't get why we want ice cubes floating in all our beverages.

It's because ice is awesome. Chewing ice is awesome. Everything about ice is awesome. There's nothing better than a lovely summer beverage filled with crushed ice.

Well, unless and until you're getting treated with oxaliplatin. Apparently, one of the side effects of oxaliplatin is increased sensitivity to cold. So much so that drinking cold beverages can cause you to feel like you're throat is constricting and you can no longer breath. So, for the remainder of my chemotherapy regimen I'm supposed to avoid iced beverages and only drink things that are room temperature or warmer. 

It's downright unamerican.