Getting Back to the Subject at Hand

Before this turns into a travel blog, I should provide a quick update on the state of my cancer, and the new pill-based chemotherapy.

In short, pills are good. 

It could be that I have to wait until the drug builds up, but so far the side effects from the pills have been minimal. There's been no sign yet of either hand-foot syndrome or mouth sores, either of which will likely lead me to opt out of the pills. I'm still dealing with leftover neuropathy from the infusions -- at least I'm hoping it's leftover so there's a chance it might eventually go away -- but aside from that I'm feeling a lot better now than I did while receiving the infusions. I'm actually feeling like I'm almost back to human.

So I'm liking the pills. 

Now I just have to a) find an oncologist who can pick-up where Group Health left off, and b) wait for the next round of scans to see if the pills are actually working.

But that can wait for this leg of the GCW Tour to be over.