 All of us were sitting in the office of my medical oncologist, who, with his clipboard, was listing through a litany of problems I would be facing in chemotherapy, beginning with, Johnny, you'll have to be sent back to the hospital, and a catheter port will have to be inserted into your chest, and you will be given highly toxic poisonous drugs, and your bones, which already are fragile, will probably break. You will have many bladder infections, probably lung infections. You'll probably have pneumonia. You'll lose your hair. You'll get nauseous.