NAUSEA!

Wednesday started out odd.  I wasn’t sure if I was hung over or not.  I did indulge the night before but overindulge?  I made it across the Bay Bridge at 6AM.  The traffic was heavy but I was at the VA by 6:45.  I thought I would stop for breakfast at a place that was recommended on Geary at 25^th [Joe’s?] but I decided I was not that hungry.  I went to the canteen and got milk, OJ, and a donut.  I couldn’t eat the donut.  NAUSEA!   Finally, I had an appropriate reaction to the chemo. I trotted off to the Infusion center.  I told George that I wasn’t absolutely sure that I had experienced nausea given my activities the night before.  He said I would know by the end of the day.  The pharmacy was very busy again and the meds came slowly.  I was released at 3:15.  I could not eat all day.  I drove home thinking I would stop at Mike’s for a burger but I drove right by.  When I got home I had a toes-up which lasted until this morning.  And I still don’t feel like eating.  I will see if anything clicks at the bakery.

Cream

Yesterday my Beamer broke down.  It’s being treated at the local car hospital.  Unable to be of service today I was offered the use of several vehicles but assorted ladies and gentlemen and I made it to the VA without a hitch.  Arriving rather early I set out to find some breakfast; I would be attached to my tree for most of the day so I figured a good start was a wise move.  I drove up and down Clement and Geary from 8^th Street to the beach.  Apparently no one in that neck of the woods eats breakfast.  Any ideas, readers?  I go back on the 11^th and 12^th of September.  Please suggest somewhere. 

After consulting with another oncologist [my regular was not there] I trundled off to the infusion salon to await my meds.  The pharmacy was quite busy and they did not show up until 9:30.  It was the usual; a saline drip, 2 Tylenol, a Benadryl drip, a hydrocortisone drip and then the rituximab [4 hours] and Bendamustine [1 hour].  I got out of there about 3PM and headed to the East Bay to spend the night at my brother Martin’s house.  We had dinner[?] at The Trappist, a small dark pub with a patio in revitalized downtown Oakland.  The patio is adjacent to the patio of a Mexican restaurant.  On Tuesdays the restaurant sells $2.00 tacos and $3.00 bean and cheese burritos that you can bring back into the pub and wash down with exotic ales, porters, lagers etc.  Rumor has it that the daughter of the owner of the restaurant married the son of the owner of the pub… something romantic like that.  Then we went to the Linden Street Brewery in a warehouse section.  There is no signage so you have to know where it is.  They have a Town Lager that is only available in growlers and kegs.  They wont sell it to you unless you take it away by bicycle.  Cream is on Telegraph Ave. 2 blocks from the campus.  I am told there are often lines around the block [especially late] but we did not have to wait.  You choose your favorite [warm] cookies [2] from about a dozen different kinds.  Then you choose your favorite ice-cream from about 20 flavors.  It’s served in a little bag and you walk away eating it before it melts.  Healdsburg needs one of these.