Day 2

This has been a crazy day.  First of all I slept like a baby.  Went to sleep around 11pm and slept thru until after 7am.  That was awesome.
Lots of things to think about today.  Most importantly, what can I do to help myself?  When Mel was little with kidney problems and blood pressure issues, I began to study a book by Adelle Davis.  At that time, she was the nutrition guru of the day.  I learned about curtailing sodium for renal issues and benefits of natural foods.  For a long time, I would fix all Mel's lunches to take to school making sure to limit to low sodium foods, only fruit for sweets and as little processed food as possible.    Throughout her journey to transplant, she learned to watch protein and once she was almost at transplant, began to have to watch out for potassium, and magnesium and just about everything except what was in jelly beans.  Ha!   She's still very careful and because of it, even doctors are surprised that she's a transplant patient.
Anyway, since then, I have periodically delved into books on nutrition and have discovered that it is a fairly accepted fact that cancer cells cannot live in an alkaline environment.  Actually, I started working in that direction last Wednesday after the colonscopy when Dr. Manji told Mel and I that I would have to have surgery to remove a polyp that couldn't be removed otherwise and a chance that it was cancer.  Of course, yesterday confirmed it.  So a huge part of this journey is going to be attacking this thing nutritionally.  I think with my life maybe depending on it, it is going to be much easier than it would be otherwise. 
Tomorrow I'll be going in for a Pet Scan for staging.  One's called a cat scan and another a pet scan.  Hmmmm.   A little strange, don't you think, that both tests are named after animals.  Just an observation.
After that a road trip to Whole Foods.  I'll probably skip stopping at Great Greek Grill.  That's okay.  My falafel is almost as good as theirs and maybe a little better and I can bake mine instead of frying.  I'm a huge fan of most ethnic foods and it's surprising how much healthier food from many other cultures is than ours.  More about that later.