Food Friends and Enemies

It's Saturday and I'm just beginning to get my strength back. It is all related to food. if I take a bite of solid food/protein it is like a pep pill.....for a while. As some of you know it is a real challenge because everything tastes like shit. I had resorted to taking those skinny round "Slim Jim's" cutting them into very small wafer like pieces and then downing them with a glass of water....anything to infuse protein without having to taste it which makes me gag. If someone would come up with a highly dense protein pill that could just get chemo patients through the few days where this is an issue. Maybe NASA has something. A piece of very good news; In addition to the chemo, I'm participating in a clinical trial for a drug called Aflibercept. As in any clinical trial a percentage of the testees are given the real drug and some are given a placebo (sugar water). In this trial it is a 50/50 chance that you get the drug. The "good news" is I've had a real time with my sinus, swelling, soreness and sore throat. I learned from a very good source that this is not a side effect of the chemo it is a side effect of the Aflibercept (this drug is not a chemo drug). I had one other symptom that indicates the same thing. If it is true then when I go off the chemo I can continue with the trial and if it does indeed work I can continue on that indefinitely without the chemo side effects. Stay tuned. B.