Well it's hard to believe that we have a week under our belts already.
Today Mike had basically all his daily treatments except the infusions as there is no nurse here to administer that. It was been a really quite day here a the clinic. After lunch everyone gathered to speak to and learn from Chris T. as he has done a lot of research on supplements, vitamins, and regimens to do to increase your chances of beating cancer.
Leah told Mike that today he should just rest and take it easy. She says that we Americans are constantly doing something and that we don't take the time to just rest and take care of ourselves. She states that each day, you awake with so much energy and if you spend it all on doing too much, then your body does not have the energy it needs to fight the cancer. I guess Mike is taking her advice as he has been taking a nap for over an hour.
Mike is pretty sore in his hip today from all the walking we did yesterday. We went for a 3 mile walk in the morning before lunch and then probably walked at least 5 miles walking to the train station, to the festival, at the festival, back to the train station, and then back to the clinic.
It rained overnight here and then around noon, the sun came out of a little bit. However, it is raining again and is to continue overnight. The rest of the week looks pretty good with temperatures in the mid to upper 70s. The weekend is looking to only be in the high 60s. Just wish I would have packed some more longer sleeved shirts.
Today's lunch consisted of beef filet and vegetables for Mike and then a baked potato with a herb sour cream for me. The potato was nicely presented with a flower on top. I had cream of broccoli soup with flower petals in it. Dessert was called heavenly apple foam. It was the strangest consistency as it was actually apple flavored foam. It had some sort of coated nuts on top. The one thing they do here that really make a nice dining environment is the table setting. The table has a white cloth that has a colored cloth on top to create a diamond pattern. There are always different colorful napkins placed on each place setting. China is used with all the proper eating utensils - salad fork, soup spoon, dessert spoon, etc. We have goblets to drink water from . There is a carafe of water with crystals in it that have some sort of healing purpose to them, There is a vase of flowers on the table that is changed every couple of days. It is just a little vase with some greens and a rose bloom or two backeyed Susan flowers with some Veronica and greens, but it is just right. They also have a self serve table that has about 8 different bottles of water. They are all different and again, all having some sort of healing quality to them. You can just grab one and take it to your table or back up to your room. If you want tea, they bring it to you in a little tea pot with a tea cup and saucer on a little silver serving tray. The desserts are served on a separate plate with a dessert fork or in a glass type goblet. The put a lot of thought and effort into their presentation which is nice.
We are ready to begin the 2nd week.
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