I played in a Charity Tournament for The Love of Kids this morning with Chris Maher, Sabin Taylor and Joe Crachiola. I played very badly, but as a team we did OK...10 under par 62. We missed a lot of easy puts or we might have been 13 under or more. Anyway, 10 under was good enough for second place. I won 64 dollars in credits to the pro shop, which is $11 less than what it cost me to play...I spent $20 on the 50/50...so the whole thing was $95 out of pocket and $64 back in prize money. Net I am down $31, so not bad. First place was an 11 under 61 and paid $120 in credits. Damn...one more put and I'd have been in the money! I bought myself a golf shirt, glove, and 20 balls with my credits, and I gave these items to Yoko to give to give back to me on Christmas. (For anyone thinking about what to get me for Christmas, I have all the golf stuff I need.)
I got my hair cut very short this week to cover up the fact that I have begun to loose hair (more quickly than usual). On this blog I wanted to memorialize the fact that Sabin Taylor kept making comments about how skinny I am and how I looked like I was on chemo -- ha ha ha. (Sabin is a big guy; he was a football player at UCONN and could have been a pro baseball player.) All I could say was, "Watch it Sabin...you'd feel terrible if it turned out I actually had cancer!" Of course, everyone was chuckling....it was all I could do not to tear off my shirt and show them my tattoos and say, "No assholes... I'm on chemo radiation...and even though it hurts to swing and my red blood cell count is below normal, in my weakened state I still play better than any of you!" I resisted the temptation of course...but I would like to tell my friends.
After golf came the big challenge...eating lunch. I piled on the easy to eat bake beans, potatoes salad and cole slaw and got one hamburger. It still took me an hour to eat. (To give you an idea of how slow this is, Sabin had the same side dishes PLUS two hamburgers and a hot dog...and went back for seconds. Chris finished his first plate of food before I even sat down! They both finished two plates before I had eaten even half of mine.) The hardest part is not grimacing as you swallow. At least at home I can moan as I eat! Anyway, I was able to finish what I had taken before the event was over.
Tonight we have the Morgan Stanley Christmas party in Ft Myers. It is a sit down dinner. I guess we will go...but I sure hope they serve macaroni and cheese! I better go take a nap before we have to leave! I'll blog to you later,
By the way, the meatball blog has received the most comments in the last couple of days....as expected.
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Tommy, your sense of humor astounds me and you're right your friend will feel like hell when and if the time comes that you tell them you do have cancer.
You mention in your blogs often your struggle with eating. How soon after your treatments will that side effect subside?
I have two more radiation treatments and then the healing can begin. It has only been in the last two weeks that eating has become difficult. I imagine it won't take too long before I am back to normal. I hope I am better before Christmas...I am looking forward to feasting!
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