First Course of Treatment

Round One:

The first day of treatment was another long one. We got to the Mayo Hospital at around 1:30pm only to have to wait until almost 3:00pm to finally meet with Dr. Reeder. Thankfully his review of my scans and slides did not reveal anything unexpected and he is confident that the new ESHAP form of chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant will help take care of the cancer and knock it into remission once and for all. The first complete round should take care of the most of the mass while the second round will be used to prepare my bone marrow for the transplant. He even made reference to not having to do the third round of chemotherapy if the bone marrow transplant goes along without a hitch!!! 

At around 4pm the first round of the 5 round title fight began between me and ESHAP. Sitting ringside were my mom and step-dad Jim and officiating the round was nurse Jackie. The fight went almost five and a half hours with me taking the first round but it was a close one. Despite getting in some good shots ESHAP was unable to take me down, just wore me out with the ground game and drained some of my stamina. Round two is set for August 3rd at 9:00am so I am going to need my rest to keep the momentum going.

Round Two:

It was difficult to wake up and get started for round two as I hadn't gotten a lot of sleep the night before and was drugged up on anti-nausea and pain pills, but nothing was going to stop me from getting back in that ring and taking the second round from ESHAP. The second round started off a little slow with ESHAP taking me down to the ground once again and trying to work his brazilian jiu jitsu moves but I was abl

e to escape the multiple submissions and take it back to our feet. The round ended after another epic 5 hours and I was able to walk out although I think that ESHAP may have been able to edge me in the cards this time. But tomorrow would be another day and anther round! 

Round Three: 

I was able to get more sleep following the second round and went it to the battle with more vim and vigor than the previous two. I was even able to catch a quick break for something to eat after the rampage style slam that I laid down put ESHAP into the corner for a bit trying to recover. Round three lasted about as long as the first two and I have a feeling that the battles are going to continue to go the distance as we are both tough and stubborn competitors but only one of us can be named the victor and with the amount of support that I have in my corner I already know what the outcome is going to be! Stay tuned for rounds four and five to come in the next two days...

Round Four:

 I started off round for a little tired and 

feeling pretty nausues from the night before. My hands and feet were tingling and I honestly did not want to leave my bed and make it to the ringside but I forced myself to man up and take another shot. It was too late for me to throw in the towel at this point. After receiving some anti-nauseu pills and an IV drip of Zofran I began another battle. I don't remember much, just that I slept throughout most of it and was happy to still be in one piece once it was all over. Just one more day of treatment and a winner will be named and I think that we all know who that winner will be...

Round Five:

This was the shortest of the five rounds as I decided that it was about time that I lay the smack down on ESHAP once and for all and stop playing games. I knew how much ESHAP liked the ground game so I thought that I would mess with him a little and take it to the ground myself. After slipping out of a kimura and then reversing the attempted rear naked choke I felt it was time to bust out the secret CB Dalloway peruvian necktie. And I caught ESHAP just like CB caught Rampage in practice and Jesse Taylor in the ring... It's official the first match-up went to the victor, me of course, could it have gone any other way? I am the one writing this blog after all. Stay tuned for the rematch in about 2-3 weeks!

***Note: I am not an MMA fighter and am not trying to be one especially since Anderson Silva just fought in what would be my weight class, oh hell no!!! I just thought that it would make for a good analogy ;)