Treatment Day 6

Well, we seem to have settled into an interesting routine now. It goes sort of like this:
Wake up at about 4:3o am to 5:30 am (which is good considering the jet lag when I was waking up at about 2am) Check email, talk to people on Skype. Jake gets ready for the day, then me. We go to our favorite past time of the day which is the breakfast buffet. We spice things up by sitting at a new table each morning. Now that we are feeling particularly agressive we don't even sit at the tables in any order. Sometimes we may sit at one corner then at the complete opposite. The rules are to never sit at the same table twice. Pretty exciting. There are about 24 tables, so when we finish one round of tables we are partially done with one cycle of treatment. Then Jake takes a nap from about 9 am to 10:30 am and we go down to the lobby and pray that the cab driver shows up. At about 10:50 am, I am usually on the phone to my assistant asking where the cab is and they answer the same....Hello? Here in India it seems that when people do not understand you, they either nod and say "Yes" then do nothing or say "Hello?" I have found one person who speaks very good English at the front counter so if he is there we are in good shape. Anyway, we go to treatment which lasts about an hour. I cannot sit in the room so I walk around the town. It is not a lot of exercise but the adrenalin is up when I try to cross the street. Then we go back to the hotel and we usually have the lunch buffet and then Jake takes about a 5 hour nap. I usually take a 3 hour nap. I get some work done, if the internet is up and then we nap again. Napping is really fun! It is almost as good as the breakfast buffet. Yesterday I did go over to the health club and look at the machines but I did not bring any tennis shoes so I could not use it. So today, instead of my nap, I went with a cab driver to the "mall" in India. Quite unimpressive. They do have a KFC and a McDonalds that serves only chicken based sandwiches. They have a metal detector at the entrance and guards that frisk you. You are not allowed to take pictures. Guards are everywhere. I went to the Adidas store and looked at some shoes but they were 2900 rupees and I never pay more than 2875 rupees in the states so I went back, discouraged and had a nap. It is interesting that I am so tired. I think it is partially boredom and partially underlying stress over what will be the outcome of the treatment. Even in the cab ride today we went fairly far into the town and there really is not much to do that I have found so far. Also, Jake who is looking better each day and gaining some strength now that he is off the chemo still has a very limited amount of time where he can do things. We are going to try the dinner buffet tonight and I notice that in the corner there is a speaker and an echo machine so there is a possibility of Karaoke and you know I will video that. That is about it. The days seem to roll into the next. We are sort of like in jail, sort of like in war, just doing what we need to do and getting through it one day at a time. Perhaps by next week Jake will feel good enough that we can be more active. Till then, I figure I am making up for about 25 years of lost sleep during the raising of my kids. I may even return with less bags under my eyes. Pictures and some video of the interesting television will follow.