Today starts a new chemo session. In actuality, I won’t get more chemo until Wednesday. It is a bit of a process until then.
Blood Monday. I have to get a bunch of blood work in preparation for visit with the oncologist on Tuesday. Today’s blood work will be extra special as I will get a bunch of extra blood taken for genetic testing. Given my relative young age and good fitness, I don’t fit the “normal” stomach cancer patient profile.
Being adopted, I don’t have “family history”. Back in the days of my adoption, little-to-nothing was shared. Through the miracles of modern science, I’ll find out everything that is wrong with my genes. Or I’ll find out that I am a mutant with latent super powers!
Twentythree/5 
Dave, Sorry I missed your going-away thingy. Hope you’re doing well. I’m sure chemo isn’t a whole lot of fun. Speaking of genetic testing… I’m thinking of getting the ’23 & Me’ test done so I can see all the diseases to which I’m susceptible. I’m sure at my age some of these ailments are going to start creeping up on me. As you might have heard, I was in Alaska when the office had your farewell lunch. I’ve never been there before. Of course, the landscape and seascape was stunning. It was nice for an introvert like me to recharge in a setting like that. On our way up a long river to see one of the glaciers I came upon a serene moment which I captured on my camera. As I witnessed this I thought of you. Well, not really. But I thought of you afterwards and I wanted to email it to you thinking it might help you recharge as well. It is a shower of light in an otherwise cloudy day. I’ll send it to your email address. Well, take care. I have faith that there is a God who is in control of all things; and yet we live in a world that is terribly amiss – full of pain and suffering punctuated with moments of sheer joy like the love of a daughter for her father. How those things square is a great mystery.
Your Friend,
Pat
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