I went to the cancer center again this morning, to find out the result of my PET scan. The answer: "all clear." Dr Jo said I look remarkably healthy for the most part, although my continued, downward-creeping weight is of some concern. I thought I had been gaining back since my nadir at 69 kg, but my official weigh-in at the doctor's today was 73 kg, which is always a few kilos over because I'm fully dressed and carrying things, so that probably means my home scale would show me at about 71. I guess that's a little bit of a bounce-back.
Anyway, I'm doing OK. I complained about eating, some, and I complained about the "ghost sensations" in the cut nerves in my wrist and neck, but overall I think I'm doing OK – I take no meds, work 50 hours a week, and walk 30~40 km per week.
I was walking back from the cancer center over Jeongbal hill, through the park, and approaching me was a girl of only maybe 4 years of age, walking as if she were a meditating monk or thoughtful ajeossi, hands crossed behind her back and pacing carefully. I was startled, as for a moment she seemed unaccompanied. Then, around the bend in the path, her mom appeared.
The mom was wearing a tshirt. It said, in simple yellow letters on a navy background: "SIMPLICITY IS THE ULTIMATE SOPHISTICATION."
I couldn't help but grin slightly at this clever fragment of wisdom on the tshirt of the mom of the preternaturally composed child.
I continued back home.
[daily log: walking, 9.5 km]