An hour after getting the chemo pump removed and I already feel a little better.

A friend in Japan has sent me a book called The Enzyme Factor. It is a book by a Japanese doctor that has treated cancer and gastrointestinal patients for forty years. His theory is that gastrointestinal health determines health in other areas; that is, if we aren't healthy there, we won't be healthy anywhere. Further, he believes that enzymes are the key to this health. He thinks that the specialized enzymes we see all the time come from a source enzyme that specializes only when needed, and that we have a limited number of them at any given time. It's similar to stem cell theory. Reading the beginning of this book is like reading a detailed list of the things I did wrong to put me in the situation I am in now, which is dreading the last five days of chemo, scheduled for next month.

According to the author, it's all about what you eat and drink. This should not come as any surprise as we've been hearing it for years. But look at this: it's entirely possible that my cancer started developing as soon as I started eating meat again a couple of years ago and started drinking Eastern teas, both green and black. So perhaps in order to avoid a relapse, I should avoid meat, among other things. I don't know. I'll finish the book and get back to you. But I have to say that I am not keen on the last round of chemo. I don't even believe in it; I may simply not do it. It's not like they can strap me down and force me. We'll see.