Finally, a doctor's appointment at Lombardi Cancer Center that did not leave my wife Bev and I in tears. The chemo doctor (medical oconologist) was very upbeat on the likelihood of carboplatin helping the CyberKnife radiation bring this cancer under control. They closely monitor my red and white blood cells and mix each dose up accordingly. Yeah, same old side effects: nausea, fatigue, etc but if it does the trick, I'm up for it. To celebrate I bopped on down to Best Buy where I got the brand new Bob Dylan CD: Together for Life for only seven dollars with my best buy rewards card.
Here is a link to the Washington Post review:
Bob Dylan's Together for Life -It's all good and life is hard which I quote from liberally below
Laying on the couch, with a little red wine going down my feeding tube to pump up the percocet, listening to "It's All Good", the last track on the CD was my way of fleshing out the Post's review: 'But it is the ferocious closing song, It's All Good that is Dylan at his withering best as he takes the numbingly banal phrase and turns it on its head...:It's a switchblade sendoff that signals the fight hasn't been knocked out of the singer altogether."
So I will enjoy the Merry Merry Month of May until Memorial Day is over and chemo and radiation begin. Then suffer but perserve thru dreadful June when the side effects will hit me the hardest.Just like Dylan croons on Life Is Hard:"I don't know what's wrong or right/I just know I need strength to fight/Strength to fight that world outside," ," And I find Dylan's attitude on this album in perfect sync once again with my life right now :"its mix of inscrutability, flashed teeth, existential angst, deep sorrow, deadpan humor and dead-on takedowns would make it a perfectly satisfactory coda to a remarkable half-century". Like Dylan, I am not planning on calling it quits any time soon.
Peace and Love
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