News from Auburn: Sat Oct 18 2008


This week has been very uneventful.   The kids have independently gone to the beach for the weekend (different groups).  They continue to get better grades than I did in college.  My friend of 40 years - since 1st grade - is coming to visit this weekend!  Yay!

Health update
I have not used a wheelchair since last week Wednesday (my last appt at UAB).  I have been walking on my cul-de-sac - very slowly, but getting in some distance.  Yesterday I took my last dose of steroids for pneumonitis.  Those of you who have weaned off of steroids understand what that means for the short term.  I had a bit of a  fever last night, but I'm feeling better now.

The date for my follow-up PFT (pulmonary function test) at UAB has been confirmed.  I have two more weeks to get in shape.  I'm debating taking up the flute again to work on my breathing.  :-)

News
There has been an epidemic of email forwards of late.  You know what I mean: these are the "inspirational stories" that get recycled around the web every couple of years, sent from  person to person as a poor man's replacement for actual personal communication.  Sadness.

I've seen most of these stories at least 3 times.  I have been desensitized.  Either that or I've looked at snopes.com and found out they weren't true.

More than that, for over 10 years I've been sending out personalized email - okay, it's a mass mailing, but it's NEW - as an attempt to revive the lost art of letter writing.

So, if you want to send me a forward, you may do so, but you HAVE to send me at least two personal emails for every forward you send.  Otherwise, I may just have to put some friends onto my junk mail filter.

I have cancer.  I'm allowed to be a little cranky.  I need news and contact, not fluffy recycled syrup stories!

"And that's all I got to say about that."  --- Forrest Gump

Oh, and my hair is still coming back in:  (the goatee is due to the pattern of radiation induced hair loss on my neck and jaw.  No trimming/shaving involved.)




Posted: Sat - October 18, 2008 at 09:11 PM           | |

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