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Eating lunch Who knew my poor son would be called upon to hand feed his father before I’m in my 90s? With my new feeding tube, I will get enough nutrition-2500 calories a day- to keep me alive. Can and should also eat and drink as much as I can orally. I thought we’d try…

Hello all of my loyal subjects. Thanks for checking in again with the pretzel king of Toledo. In the news today, the pretzel king now has a sizable hole in his stomach, which contains a port, which will allow him to take in liquid nutrition to 2 to five times a day to get some…

Yesterday was an amazing day! After two days off radiation the throat was a teeny bit better, the Store was busy all day- best day in over 2 weeks. The evening was Fan-Tas-Ic though. My kids may have sensed i was pretty down on Friday, because they came over before we got home from work…

I KNOW, twice in a one day??? But I’ve gotta know- even you for whom having a sex offender and bully is an anathema- do you really think he will pay one single cent of the over $83 mil?First, the fascist will do what he always does. Just refuse. Then, when they try to get…

We are very pleased here at the pretzel king to see that Republicans have again decided that compromise is an evil thing that should be never ever agreed to. Apparently being right 100% is the only option. Too bad they can’t agree always on what that option is to be. Oh yeah, it’s very easy.…

…or Light Therapy? Well, there is music, and a nice view of a small field… Nope, actually I thought it was Keto Therapy. You know, weight loss thru red meat! Turns out, dammit, that instead of burgers with no bun, they want to inject me with drugs! I mean, actual doctors giving me actual drugs…

I warned you folks that I might post non-health related thoughts.. I confess I jumped on the Lions Bandwagon last year. Like the coach, they way they play. The Browns got about as far as they could with so many key players missing a bunch of games or more. Now it’s time for another team…

The daily pounding of x-rays on my throat is finally leaving its mark. Lost my sense of taste recently. Strange. Everything tastes…weird. Kinda off. Hard to get excited about eating. It’s a very unsettling thing- thinking about eating, all sorts of food, and none of it feels appetizing. Trying to keep eating anyway, but even…

So for those of you keeping track, treatment has started for my head/neck cancer. Exciting stuff. Monday was the first day, radiation followed by chemo, but I had an allergic reaction to the first of two chemo drugs- Taxol. I felt like Jack Jack from the incredibles- my entire body was on FIRE! Plus shortness…