Neuropathy is one of side effects I have to live with as it doesn’t fade away anymore. First week is more intense but it is always there. It is hard to type and do anything with my hands as I am not able to feel well and they always tingle. If I am holding my wife’s hand I have to keep checking to make sure I am still holding her hand by looking or squeezing it. I also drop and spill things. Strange thing is I can’t even enjoy a warm shower, as my hands and feet sting when the water hits them. I miss enjoying a nice warm shower.

The hope by reducing the chemo that the neuropathy would only last the first week. No luck. We will be having to change Oncologists soon with new insurance and see if they have any better ideas.

Some of my live heroes One of my first Heroes was Stan Anderson. He was like a grandfather to me and my sister. He was a friend of my dad's mother. My grandmother died of cancer in 1973, so I was 8 years old at the time. My dad was also in another hospital at the sametime after a car accident and became a quadriplegic. After she passed he would help us on house repairs, take my sister and I to his apartment to swim, he collected model trains and would have lots of them and let us play with them. We would spend the day with us making sure we had a good normal life as much as possible. Stan was also in WWII in the Air force and was assigned to a B-17 as a gunner. He has taken me to his work and showed me what he did. He worked at a model train distribution and would also repair some of the trains. We would go to LA and OC model train shows. He was just an amazing man that took two kids and spent time and money to make sure they could experience a middle class life. He was a good man and gave me such a blessed childhood with so many tragedies and losses in my life at such a young life.