My cancer diary:
Friday - May 10, 2001
[total: day 96]

"I am a little bit nervous about the journey today. I did not sleep very well last night and feel absolutely exhausted this morning. Will I stand the long drive in the car?

Part of my beard has continued to grow - or better: to reappear for the last few days. Thus, I decide to use the trimmer for the first time in about eighty days. It takes 10 seconds as it is just a very small area on the chin that is longer than 1 mm, but it's a start. Still no signs of pubic hair whereas the hair on my head keeps on growing: very sparse, but at least 5 mm in length.

The trip itself is not easy for me as it is a bright and sunny day of 25 degrees Celsius. Too hot for a post-chemo patient. Andrea drives the car. We stop at least every hour. One break is in Bingen where we go for icecream under green trees at the banks of the river Rhine. If we didn't go to a tumor expert it could be the beginning of a nice weekend break.

The hotel we booked for the first three nights turns out to be in the middle of nowhere, more precisely about 25 km south-east of Heidelberg, in Neunkirchen. But it is a very fine one, member of the Relais de Silence group: pool, golf course, tennis court, big garden, clean and spacious rooms, nice restaurant, nearby forest, ... Almost holiday as I said."

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