He may be one of the lucky ones who just doesn't have a lot of side effects from the Tx -- Reactions to it are spread out quite a bit, kind of like the Bell Curve and Mike seems to be on the good end of that!

For example, I was able to drive myself to all my nukery (No chemo), although a friend drove me the last week and I let him -- Others I know had to have someone drive them after the first week or so -- Still others managed to continue to work throughout the entire process (I couldn't have managed that!)

I didn't have pain or take pain meds, rather a lot of lassitude, coupled with sleeplessness and a general feeling of discomfort not unlike depression. I like to read, but couldn't do it -- Just lie on couch waiting for bed time and lie in bed waiting to get up and lie on couch. It was a major accomplishment for me to finally be able to walk around the block!

When I did start reading again (Light fiction), I didn't recall which books I read -- I will find a 'new' book at library, be reading it and have deja vu hints throughout as if I had seen the movie or something; checking the copyright dates showed that it would have been on the New Titles shelf in library when I was recovering, so likely I had read it already but couldn't recall it.