Well right now i am sitting in my classroom meeting with parents to discuss how awful their children are! Not really but it sounded funny right? Today i leave school at 11:00 so that i can drive home with plenty of time to change into some comfy clothes and have Amy drive me to St. Marys hospital. i have to be there at 1:00 to do paper work, presurgery stuff, and basically sit around til the surgeon is ready to slice and dice me.
This will be my… 5th time under the knife for various things like hernias, appendectomys, tonsilectomys, wisdom removal (teeth that is) and now a biopsy and port implant. biopsy is where they take some of the cancer mass and test it to see what type and in what stage it happens to be in. a port is a cool little device they stick just under your collar bone. they make an incesion and drop the port into a pocket and sutterate in place… then they slide a cathator down a vein into my heart. they can access the port for drawing blood, using for ivs, pushing meds, chemo etc. it will be in there for probably 6 mos- a year so they dont have to stick me in the arms all the time. both of my arms are bruised from the 2 ivs last week and the 2 times they stuck me for drawing blood.
I will update this evening or tomorrow depending on how i am feeling. Tom is coming down tonight to take care of me if i can’t make it to school since Amy has to work. well i have a parent coming in in just about 10 minutes so i need to quick change their childs grades so to all “Fs” to scare them a bit (just kidding!) and make things interesting.
hope you are feeling ok today, im sure you have good doctors. dude you definently should not have to deal with needles…. i know how much you love them!!! but giving you bruises from needles is just cruel!!!! Can you sue them for that? hehehehe Let’s just hope somebody was eating a junior mint, cause i heard those things cure everything if dropped inside the body properly hehehehe
take care buddy.
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Hey! Just sent you an email and then checked your blog. You’re a pretty funny guy – misspellings and all! (I’ll leave the corrections to Ron) Grandad (Your dad’s dad) was upset by the news and reiterated what you had in the family history. It does appear to be mostly on his side. There really wasn’t much cancer until Grandad’s generation.(Your dad’s dad) You failed to mention Grandad’s (Your dad’s dad – again) prostate cancer. He (Your dad’s dad) thought his dad had a type of lymphoma, but I’ve always discounted that as a true cancer because I really think it was caused by chemical exposure. You also failed to mention your dad’s cousin Barry, who had a type of sarcoma. (What they worry Tori may have.) Anyway, thanks for the blogs and sharing your journal with us. We love you! Elaine