Today’s episode of SCT Street was brought to you by the letter K!

The symbol for potassium is K for some inexplicable reason. Mine happens to be a tad high at the moment, which is not unusual after the chemo and radiation. They need to keep an eye on it and manage it properly.

There are a couple of things that could have caused it, and they are working out which one it is for sure, but I’m going to talk about the most likely one.

If you’re like me, your knowledge of potassium is that you know it’s something you need and it’s famously found in bananas. (I hate bananas.) But potassium is also stored inside the cells of our body, which is good.

I went through chemo and radiation to kill off my bad, cancerous cells so that the stem cells can plant and grow into new ones for me. All that chemo and radiation caused the cancer cells to die—but they don’t do it all in one go. They die over several days, and as they do, the potassium they were carrying gets dumped into my bloodstream.

So that’s probably why it’s going up. If it gets too high, there can be some dangerous consequences, so they need to manage and watch it for a bit now.

So my cancer cells (evil monkeys) are basically dropping all the bananas they were carrying into my bloodstream as one last “Screw you!” on their way out. Nice!

Aside from that, I felt pretty good in the morning, pretty terrible in the afternoon, and more or less average through the evening. They keep telling me that next week will be harder. So I have that to look forward to.

I shall endure.