Cancer Journal

 My monthly PSA # was  checked this week.  It was again too low to be detectable.  As before,  good news but a victory parade would be premature. What I'm more hepped up about is a news story that DHA, one of the Omega 3 fatty acids, is lethal to cancer.  The cancer gobbles it up, craving fat, but then can't metabolize it and the cell disintegrates.  The photos of the timed progression of that process are impressive.  Bad mistake for the cancer cell.   The story left some things unanswered.  Is it all kinds of cancer this happens to?  There's enough variability to cancer so that that seems unlikely.  What's the optimal DHA dosage?  They spoke of 250 mgs a day but that didn't seem necessarily definite.  I take an Omega 3 supplement that has 450 mgs of DHA.  I'm hoping cancer cells are popping in me like popcorn seeds in a popcorn popper.

 My wife and I went to the Thirsty Badger last night to see live music at their outdoor stage.   I saw a rough looking fellow come in with a shirt that read "F*ck Cancer."  In place of the vowel was a skull and crossbones.  Maybe a shave and hair trim would have cleaned him up but there was a bad gaunt about him suggesting the ravishes of cancer.  That and the legend on the shirt told to me that we belonged to the same club. I went over the the table he and his group were at and said to him, "I'm betting you have cancer."  "Not no more, I don't," he responded and proceeded to tell me about an operation they did to take skin from his forearm and graft it onto his tongue along with some other stuff that called for a 14 hour operation.  They must have removed some bone too because there were some things missing in that head that surely had been there before.  He showed me where the skin graft had come from and it totally messed up a tattoo that ...

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