"ROUND ONE"

the worlds most crooked street ..SAN FRANCISCO 2005
the trip into the city was so much quicker today....triboro was the way to go...typical visit at first.....blood pressure (excellent) weight 165(the same as always) height (5' 101/2") (shrinking)...at first they did not have a blood order request but one came and i gave blood .. counts (above normal) but still red.....met a nice couple from long island and i was for the first time not the youngest person in the waiting room (yeah) he had the testicular kind and i said "oh he had the one with the cool spokesperson..he laughed but Lance had nothing on my crew...then he commented on the TYE DYED BRACELET ...loved it...then the nurse saw it and loved it ...on and on and on.....i had more confidence each time people mentioned it.....ok here's goes...after a slight delay i was finally hooked up....at first the drip was notworking well and the nurse said "wow that almost never happens" so we switched to my left hand and bombs away worked like a charm....what is one more needle among friends...so they were dripping something in my veins and i said feels good but it was only water...the GEM stuff was next and man that stung the veins..but they diluted it some more...not to hot..not to cold...just right....the Cis crap was next and i snoozed the last hour..... my fellow patients were nice (we all had a semi private room and i am glad i bought seinfled dvd...books.... ipod...and set up shop in my area.......all rooms have tv's and vcrs..suppose to be headsets only..but the old guy behind me was blasting soap operas for his wife ..but they were a cute couple and i did find out that bobby was sleeping with his sisters best friends cousin once removed ( what does that mean once removed)? rockman any clue ? with my headset on playng neil youngs "prairie wind" it took me away for awhile anyway.....well felt pretty good on the ride home and my wife is an excellent driver and avoided a swerving van at the last second...darn drivers on cell phone..see i am feeling ok cause bad driving still pisses me off...well i am where i need to be right now...getting all this down on paper.......oh before i forget side effects..memory loss..high pitch hearing loss (sorry yoko) the usual slight nausea....tingling in toes and fingers.... and the irresistible urge stand ontop of a mountain and yodel....but seriously there was a time during the treatment that i felt all of you with me...and i smiled at the nurse and she said that the treatment must be going well because i was smiling and i almost told her that my friends and family just came into the room and she would have smiled also if she only knew how true that was.....

tommy "rocky" cheffo......on to round two ...next tuesday........