Day 3: Tuesday, Dec 31 Don't want cancer? Then Sing!

Met with the doctor today. He had the results of John's baseline blood work. John is all normal except in the areas of his liver function and immunologic function. Both are showing too high numbers, which makes sense considering the amount of toxicity in his body from all the backed up stool. He'll have labs done every Monday morning (fasting) to compare and see if his treatments are working in the right direction. He took his treatment this morning without incident - it takes a little over an hour. It's perfect - he sits and watches TV or plays games on the computer while I run out on the patio on the treadmill. We kill two birds with one stone. Today, he came out on the patio after his treatment with his RC car. He scared the bejeezus out of the poor Amish woman when his car went racing under her feet - she jumped and let out a little yelp. She laughed after she realized what it was, but she at first thought his car was a giant spider scurrying under the chair she was sitting on. She was fascinated with the little car as she'd not seen one before. Her husband, Glen, knew what it was as he was not Amish when he met her!!! He was in the process of leaving the Amish order, "going English" when they met. She convinced him to come back Amish. Wow! I feel like we're living in a book! Just to update you, too, on the mentality around here after yesterday's shoot out: Even though there was a drug shootout between the dealers and the cops up near the grocery store three blocks away, a big group of patients walked up there this afternoon. John and I didn't go - I still wasn't comfortable with it, but they all went. So, the feeling of safety is there - besides most feel when it's your time, it's your time (although I have to think, why push it?).
This morning was kind of funny - I led a group of patients in a little yoga/pilates/ab workout session on the floor of the treatment room. I brought my little 5 lb ball and two exercise bands and we did some ab stuff (most couldn't do more than five reps, I told them all to meet me again tomorrow). Then one of the doctors got involved. He's a Chinese doc who doesn't speak English or Spanish, so it was hilarious trying to learn from him. He was showing us Tai Chi - telling me that yoga and Pilates are baby stuff and doesn't help you like Tai Chi does. Then, he gets on the floor and starts pawing around, going for the kill and moving like a lion. He's roaring and making big lion faces - he had us all in stitches until we all had to get on the floor doing the same thing. So, here's like five of us crawling around on the floor, roaring and mewing and pawing like lions. He was trying to tell us that using ALL your muscles at once, like a lion, makes you healthy and strong. Not like the stupid isolation exercises like ab work. Well, I'm sorry, but I just can't see a bunch of overweight people at your local Y crawling around on the floor, roaring and pawing for 45 minutes. I don't think it would fly! Then, he gets up on one of the chairs and starts humming, first from way up in his head, then his mouth area, then chest, then low chest and finally his stomach area - making all these strange humming noises. We all kind of froze, not sure what he was doing. We eventually understood he wanted us to copy him - so we all started trying to make these ridiculous noises. We definitely did not sound the same! He gave up eventually telling us, "You will all get cancer if you do not learn this!" He told us that singers rarely get cancer because they use all these levels of their body. If we don't want cancer, we should sing! Well, of course!