WOW, didn’t see this one coming…

Well, what do you say when your surgeon asks you if you want to live or die?  Uh, let me think for a minute, yep, I’ll take life.
Just got back from my surgeon appointment and it didn’t play out like I thought it would.  I have spent the last three to four weeks putting together [...]

What did the King do…

Well, we are not sure of the whole story, but what we do know is that The King, aka Mr. Burger King, had a play place built into his fast food joint.  King thought it would be a great idea to have kids play after having a fine dining experience.  So far, I agree with [...]

A dark place…

This is where I was over the weekend. It was lonely there and I didn’t like it at all. After getting the CT results, the mental battle began. It is hard to continually get news that you don’t want to hear. The battle raged all weekend long. There were thoughts [...]

The results are in…

And I am beginning to get REALLY MIFFED at this stupid disease. The results were not what we were expecting. The cancer that was left after surgery continues to grow. The also found some possible issue with the bladder. They think it just might be some “debris” or blood. No [...]

Rough week…

Let me start by saying, I don’t mean to complain. I am not feeling sorry for myself, but I am just sick of this cancer thing!!
This was a rougher week than I had expected. I am about half way through treatments right now. Six down, six to go! However, I thought [...]

Not a great weekend…

Yes, it is flu season. Yes, I got the stomach flu late Friday night. What fun that is. After being up all Friday night, I spent all day Saturday and most all of Sunday in bed. Living on PowerAde and crackers is also not on my top ten things to do [...]

They say no news is good news, but…

I have some news. We don’t have all the information yet, but we did not receive good news on Friday. If you recall, my first follow up CT scan was on Friday. I was nervous to get the results, but was like a kid at Christmas, waiting in anticipation for the great [...]

Our visit to The James – Second Opinion Update…

Well, we had our second opinion visit at the James Cancer Hospital today. It was interesting coming out of the appointment and talking with Sandi about it. She was on could nine and I was basically in tears. Perspective is everything and I will explain. I will split this post into [...]

Yes, I have been absent…

Many of you have called or e-mailed me with concern that I am not doing well. This is a result of you following my blog and that I have not posted in some time. Well, last week, as noted in the Chemo Round #3 post below, was a very bad week. For [...]

Friday Funny…

Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy.
Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana.
He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 on FM dial in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, [...]