Low spirits

Another two weeks have passed.  I’m back in the hospital for the fourth chemo session.  When this week is over, the first third of my second treatment program is history.  I have no idea how it is going.I’m doing well.  I can’t complain.  I still don’t suffer side effects.  Over the course of the last two weeks, there was nothing to report out of the ordinary, which is one reason why I didn’t blog once.  Another reason is that I didn’t read anything interesting.  The third reason was the hot phase of birthday...

Five and three

Today was my third chemo session of the second round.  It was and still is surrounded by my fifth fasting period.  Almost everything went as before.  I continue to experience no side effects.  The nurses give me three pills to swallow at the beginning of the therapy and then an injection before they give me irinotecan.  It would be interesting to see how things go without those pills and the injection, but as they go well with them, I see no point in challenging the regime.  Fasting is said to help mitigate the side...

Fake fasting

Over the past few days, I’ve mostly stuck to a low-carbohydrate diet.  I've had protein bread and peanut butter for breakfast, lots of nuts during the day and a vaguely keto dinner at night.  I've gone without chocolate, sweets or ice cream, and I’ve dropped the sugar that used to sweeten my espresso after lunch.  It’s been a strange experience.After reading about fasting and vitamin C (and also watching the Arte documentary that my...