It will seem strange not being home for the Labor Day weekend, but we are doing something better here, Today Mike had his first breakfast of green juice. He actually was able to get most of the bottle down. What he did not finish, he gave to Leah. The one thing he does not particularly like is the pulp texture to the juice, but he did a good job with it.
While Mike went to start off his treatment, I stayed behind and sat in on the conversation on the dinning room. There is a gentleman here Chris T. with his partner, Zoe Brannigan (from the UK) who has a rare cancer, Synovial sarcoma. She is here now with pain in her side. Chris T. feels stress brought this on. He has done a lot of research and is a wealth of information. He mentioned two things that sound good for Mike to be using - Cucumin which is derived from tumeric and EGCG which can be obtained in a supplement and in green tea. Mike has been drinking green tea while we have been here. I looked these both up on the internet. The cucumin can be added to food, i.e. rice, and also boiled into water to drink. These should both be good for the colon cancer, and we will have to get these when we get back home.
Mike had some sort of reaction on the skin to the Thimus. He has broken out with red spots on his arms, chest, and legs. When he went down for his hyperthemia on Tuesday, the technician noticed this and brought in the nurse. He has been given medicine to take care of this. He is having the hot liver pack done now.
This afternoon, I am going to go into town with Lindy. Mike will be in his hyperthermia treatment. I asked to tag along so I will know how to get there and then can take Mike into town. Lindy said there is a Bavarian Festival in Rosenheim this weekend. I am not sure if this is different from what Dr. Weber mentioned to us the other day. Lindy said that you have to take the train and then get a taxi. So we will see who all is going and tag along with them. It should be nice to see this side of the German culture.
As mentioned yesterday, here is what we have eaten while here:
Breakfast - variety of breads, eggs made to order, a cottage cheese that has been whipped up and then Mike puts flax seed on it and cut up fruit, yogurt. The also have some thinly sliced meats and cheeses out. Mike either has green tea or a cup of coffee. I have had the eggs, bread, fruit, or yogurt.
Sunday: Lunch Salad, broth soup. Mike had some sort of meat with cheese on top and shredded vegetables. I had what they called baked potatoes with sour cream (actually small new potatoes) and shredded vegetables. Dessert that I had was vanilla cream with berries.
Dinner 2 pieces of toast with a thin slice of ham, cheese, and pineapple on top. Dessert was fresh fruit, This is the only dessert at dinner time.
Monday: Lunch Creamy garlic soup. Mike then had venison roast with egg noddles and red cabbage. I had Spaghetti aglio e olio ( with garlic and oil). Mike did not complain of any garlic oozing out of my body. Dessert was red berry compote with vanilla cream
Dinner Same soup. Spicy cheese salad with fresh ciabatta bread.
Tuesday: Lunch Creamy vegetable soup or consomme with noodles. Mike had mixed fish with quino and fresh vegetables. I had the vegetable wok with quinoa. I had the banana milk shake for dessert. That was not quite bad. I usually only like to eat fresh bananas.
Dinner Same soups. Indian vegetable rice.
Wednesday: Lunch Creamy leek soup. Mike had wiener schnitzel with parsley potatoes and currants. I had spelt vegetable patties on broccoli sauce. This was good. Not sure what what all was in it. Dessert was ice coffee - Vienna. It was like whipped topping with coffee in it.
Dinner Same soup. Mixed salad vegetable plane with potato curd ravioli.
Thursday: Lunch Chicken consomme with vegetables. Mike had duck breast on currant jus and potatoes au gratin. I had the cheese souffle with tomatoes and basil. Skipped dessert so we could leave for the train.
Dinner I had creamy carrot ginger soup. Miked had his portion and my portion of the smoked trout with grain bread. I ate yogurt, fruit, and grain bread.
Today: Lunch Clear asparagus soup. Mike had wild salmon with warm vegetable salad and Milo risotto. I had the milo risotto with sauteed vegetables. Dessert was King Roll neopolitan ice cream in 1/2 a log shape.
Dinner Same option of soup. Maccheroni gratin - not sure what that is.
Every day for lunch they give you the option of a meat based meal or vegetarian. I am very thankful for that. However, there is no option for dinner.
Mike is down having his biomat, and magnetic therapy now. He has his massage at 2:00 and then his hypertermia at 4:40. If he is not too tired, we will go for a walk. However, the benadryl they gave him made his sleepy. He actually slept the whole time here in the room while he had his hot liver treatment. So we will have to see if he needs to take another nap. Until next time........
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