Cycle 5 in Pictures

As I said yesterday, I began cycle 6, but I'd like to take this moment to share a few pictures from cycle 5 that show some of what went on. First one is of me in the clinic during week 1. For effect, I'm wearing my prosthetic leg turned sideways. Also to note is that while I've lost a good bit of hair, my mustache and some of the hair on my chin had begun to grow back:

Fast forward to the end of the cycle, and that hair has become rich and full, and the rest of my hair has started to come back as well. Facial hair, head hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, body hair... This cycle 6 will likely knock it out again, but I'm enjoying it while I still have it. Here's me on Sunday posing in front of the new 1 World Trade Center tower currently under construction:

Now, I'd mentioned before that the fit of the prosthetic leg is very much dependent on the prosthetic socks that go over my silicone sleeve. I have to carry socks with me wherever I go, as during the course of an outing, I might need to change the number I'm wearing. Here is a change of socks in action:

Finally, my nails have shown the signs of multiple rounds of chemo. This is something Dr. Meyers, the head of the sarcoma team, told me I would see. Perfectly normal, like tree rings actually. I can see four bands, and I had four cycles before this one: