Chemo, week 2

We have a friend, Tina, who is steadily inching out of amateur status with her photography. She took pictures of our hard-to-photograph kitties last year, and we loved them. So when I realized that I might lose my hair soon (and it might be gone for a long time), we asked if she'd be willing to take a more-or-less formal picture of us. She showed up with her fancy lights and filters and reflection umbrellas and stuff, and we had a pretty good time. Towards the end I got tired, and the last hundred pictures will just be me, lying on the couch, laughing at her and Brie. We'll post a couple here if any of them turn out.

We're…fairly happy with our care at Group Health. But there are strange holes in their coverage or procedures or something. Nutrition, for one thing, never seems to be mentioned. So we're spending our own money to see a cancer-focused naturopathic doc at Seattle Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center. Nice people, and it's great to get a second opinion on things. But when we saw them in 2006, they were literally across the street from Group Health, and now they're in RENTON. Argh. Long drive at 8:30am. Basically we're asking for stuff to make chemo less onerous, and ideas on how to support my immune system to make my body's efforts more effective. And as usual with a naturopath, they've prescribed about a million pills a day. Argh, again.