Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Beware of Brazilians Bearing Beef

Saturday night was our company's end-of-year dinner.  It was held at Fogo de Chão, an all-you-can-eat Brazilian steak restaurant.  Basically, you can help yourself to this wonderful gourmet salad bar and then all evening, servers come by with skewers of various types and cuts of meats; mostly beef, but some pork, chicken and lamb.   With so many varieties, it was a terrible shame to not try most everything that was offered.  I went very light on the salad bar so I could stock up on the meat, and I wasn't disappointed.  It was wonderfully delicious and the company perfect.

I stuffed myself silly and was very glad I did, until I tried to go to sleep that night.  I fell asleep around 1:00am and about 3 hours later I awoke and was unable to go back to sleep for several hours.  Several times I considered slipping out of bed and booting up the computer to write in this blog, but I just couldn't do that.  It would have completely woken me and, maybe subconsciously, I would have allowed the side effects more control over me than I wanted. I was never in any pain, and there was no sign of acid reflux, but I did feel like I had a bowling ball for a stomach.  No position was just right to sleep again.  Eventually, the fatigue overcame the discomfort and I fell back asleep.

It's Tuesday today and, slight headache from a possible cold that might be coming on aside, I feel perfectly fine.  It's almost as if the whole thing is a bad nightmare, from which I have slowly awoke.  That is, if it wasn't the threat of chemo fun looming on the horizon again next week, I might be able to forget the whole thing.  My wife has often said the same.  Clothed, you can't see the scars from the surgery or the port implant.  I haven't lost any hair (yet) and my weight's the same.  Looking at me, well even being me, it does feel like the whole thing was a nightmare and life could resume normally from here.  Frankly, I am glad.  Despite the enormous blessing it is to feel great physically, it is also wonderful to have some emotional distance.  May it continue.

1 comment:

  1. Ha! I have had the same experience every time I eat at a Brazilian churrascaria! Since I absolutely love the food, I have taken to accepting that I will be up most of the night and get a good book . . . It"s worth it!

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