The background: Cheryl (known to many of you as my wife) had an MRI done recently due to chronic back pain. – – – It was one of those court days where several people needed to be escorted out of the building. A little conflict goes with the territory. Your agency sues someone, you expect [...]
Posts under ‘Cancer’
When cells divide
My doctor says she found cancerous white blood cells floating around my body again. They appeared in a blood smear done back in August. She doesn’t plan to treat it until certain symptoms appear – which based on the slow, chronic nature of my disease, could still be a while. I was symptom free in [...]
Failing to prove a point
I’d planned this post as a bit of self-parody, after my “two thousand and something” entry last night. I was going to do one of those “a year ago on this date” posts, then admit I hadn’t posted anything a year ago. Trouble is, I did. Damn. So I checked two years ago. Double damn. [...]
A year ago
“What did we do last year for our anniversary, Cheryl?” “We didn’t do anything. You were about to start chemo and we were staying away from public places.” Let me clear a few things up. My experience with cancer was much easier than most (as far as I’m concerned). Although I still think about it [...]
Reading a sign
A while back I was on my way home with Beth, after our biweekly flirtation with anaphylaxis (allergy shots). Something didn’t seem right. I began to feel a little uncomfortable. Between the traffic and a talkative child, I was a little preoccupied, but nothing obvious was causing my little burst of anxiety. And no, it [...]
A clean bill of health
The oncologist says my blood work is a solid indicator that I’m in remission, so my recent bout of fatigue and general malaise is strictly stress related. What a relief.
Kodak moments?
I started up the great scan project again this evening. After about four years of sporadic efforts, I figure I’ve got about eighty percent of our old school picts digitized. I was just going through the old Conner album when a stray thought gave me a smack… I should have gotten some pictures at the [...]
Working stiff
My triumphant return to work yesterday was exhausting. I’m only working part-time this week in order to gradually work may way up to being a full-time, responsible, adult member of society. However, I learned a really important lesson on the first day back: I should have been slowly working my way up to getting up [...]
Shallow branch in the river
Cards. As children they were little more than a hinderance; one more thing between you and the gift in the wrapping. Your parents told you to read the card because someone wanted to speak to you through it, so you begrudgingly glanced at it, knowing exactly how long your parents expected you to look at [...]
Trouser come lately
Today I reached another milestone on my road to recovery. Since coming home from the hospital, it was the first time I’d worn a belt. That’s right friends, you now know more than you ever cared to know about my waistband. Well suited to the relaxed atmosphere here at recovery central… it’s been all elastics [...]
