An Update of Sorts

Well I've thought about it quite a bit and I'm going to say no to being a participant in that drug study. In my opinion it's just too risky. First off they don't know yet whether the drug works or not so I'm taking a change just by being put on it. But the study is a double-blind one which means I might end up on a placebo and not even my doctor would know. They've tested this new drug enough to be aware of some of the side effects and they don't sound too pleasant - nausea, abdominal pain, accidental injury (whatever that means), and there's a chance of DNA damage which generally leads to cancer. So yeah, I'll be saying "No thank you" to that treatment. The one interesting result of being considered for this study is that the study is for patients with Ulcerative Colitis so I guess that's what my doc thinks I have.

So now that Halloween has come and gone once again there's plenty of surplus candy floating around. Every where I turn I can find candy it seems. There are bowls of it all over the office. I can even get candy from one of the ladies I ride on the bus with. She keeps giving me a couple treats a day - she gets a kick out of it so it's pretty funny. Don't ask me why but I even bought a bag of snack-sized chocolate bars Monday at lunch cause they were on sale. I'm usually pretty good at controlling what goes into my mouth but it's that time of year when junk food is everywhere. With Christmas coming up it would be a miracle to make it to the New Year without gaining more weight. I've gotta start using those new skates of mine on the weekends.

Matthew.