Tomorrow - Chemo # 5

I'm about to leave my office now. I'm done with my workday. Tomorrow I'll have chemo #5. I'm shutting down my work life for a week, putting a new outgoing voicemail message on the machine, giving the plants a good watering, making sure my paperwork is up-to-date -- doing the things I'd be doing if I were going on vacation. But it's not a vacation. As of tomorrow I'll be surrendering my body to the processes that await me for the next several days. I dread it but know it's necessary.