High dose chemo, cycle 3, day 2. Random ramblings

It is now late afternoon on day two of my final cycle of chemo, after having had a dose of chemo yesterday and this morning I now have just one more dose left to do tomorrow and that's it for chemo, forever.. That will be another major milestone we have marched past, and it feels good! Of course I still have the next couple of weeks of side effects to get through, but the end of chemo itself felt like it was a very long way off when the relapse was diagnosed back in February, so it is very nice to be at this point.
I am going along fine at the moment, I had a bit of nausea late yesterday, but I think that was more due to the antibiotic that they have started me on than the chemo.
I don't have much else to report except that my dear Robyn has abandoned me for the day to go and see her Mum, how dare she! lol. In her absence I will have to keep myself entertained by filling the rest of this post with another random brain fart, see below graphs if you wish to read it.
Cheers, Pete.

 



My admission to hospital on Sunday turned out to be late in the day so after having a blood test in the morning we took the opportunity to head out for something delicious for lunch. We were inspired to try Korean food after watching a show on SBS last year called 'Sinae Choi's Korean Food Cult'. Now Mrs Choi* is not a woman to be argued with, if North Korea is silly enough to make a military strike against the south then the south need retaliate with just one fearsome weapon, although I am not sure how you could get her to agree to hang on to the missile that is about to be fired into the heart of Pyongyang... one glance form Mrs Choi would see her simpering sidekick climbing on board in her place, and that would not do at all. I suppose they could just ask her to stand on the edge of the demilitarised zone and stare across the border. It would work on me, but I'm not Kim Jong Un:

 Sorry, wrong picture, try this one:

Oops, wrong again, third time lucky:

That's the one I'm after!

Kim Jong Un is so crazy that he is said to be a fan of Eric Clapton, who said this back in 1976:
"I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans and fucking [indecipherable] don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want fucking wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for fucks sake? We need to vote for Enoch Powell, he’s a great man, speaking truth. Vote for Enoch, he’s our man, he’s on our side, he’ll look after us. I want all of you here to vote for Enoch, support him, he’s on our side. Enoch for Prime Minister! Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!"
Interesting comments from a guy who built a career on black music. Eric has declined to say much since that would indicate that he is not nuts, he did say in 2004 that his "feelings on this had not changed". In his 2007 autobiography Eric wrote that "since then (being labelled a racist) I have learnt to keep my opinions to myself". That, Eric, is an apology that our apolititians would be proud of. You play a mean guitar though...

Hmm, It appears that I have digressed from my digression... back to Mrs Choi.
So it's hooray for Mrs Choi, who has been keeping the Korean peninsula safe(ish) since.. well,  I don't think anyone really knows how old she is because it's hard to tell and no one is bold enough or silly enough to ask, but rest assured that even if she is in her nineties she probably still has a good fifty years of deterrent value left in her.
Although her value as a nuclear deterrent may be high, to fully appreciate Mrs Choi you need to see her discuss something that she is truly passionate about, namely the preparation, presentation, and etiquette surrounding Korean food.
So it was that with fear in hearts that we decided to try a couple of recipes at home, we thought that they tasted quite good, however I am sure we failed miserably on the presentation and etiquette fronts. Please don't tell Mrs Choi.
*Note that Mrs Choi may only be addressed as Mr's Choi, forget this at your peril!

Annnnyway...Back to our meal, it was delicious! Even though Korea is very close to both Japan and China it's cuisine and flavours are very distinct from either, so it is definitely worth a try. If you find a Korean BBQ place then they will probably cook some of the food in front of you (ok that is a bit like teppanyaki), it it will also feature lots of yummy side dishes (like tapas, but completely different...)
We had Kim chi pancakes as an entree, then we shared a dish garlic prawns and a dish of beef in bulgogi sauce as mains along with the side dishes. Lots of food, but I am on doctors orders to fatten up, and I am pleased to say that I followed doctors orders to the letter!
Brain fart over, Cheers again, Pete.