Breathe in, Exhale, Repeat

Quick update - medication has shipped from India, and should arrive in one to two weeks. Apparently there is no tracking number as it had to ship USPS and wasn't insured.

I'm feeling fine physically aside from a hard lump in my upper right groin which i can feel from the outside and is likely the lymph node or bonus bit of growth from the last scan taken in December. It would appear I still have some recovery time from the surgery as well since there has been some light blood showing up on occasion in my stools. Either that or the original site is growing again.

Once the generic Gleevec arrives it should shrink the bump, and frankly this will give me a way to gauge the progress. And if the bleeding is an
indicator of new old growth (we like Old Growth Trees here in So Oregon.., just not new old growth tumors), the meds should take care of that as well.

Big happy fun time news!

I finally got my disability pay, and it was retro to Aug 1. Now I can go shopping and eat at expensive restaurants and fly on glamorous trips to Angkor Watt and dance with the idiots who actually believe the world is ending this year down in central Mexico at the Mayan ruins (their calendar cycle ends, just like any calendar ends... Why do people need to believe all the end of the world cranks?) and ... Where was I? Oh yeah, thinking of extravagances that I can't afford as my primary monetary expense will be paying off my credit card bill and seeing what I owe on taxes (since I had no idea how much to withhold I didn't have any taxes held). That will change once I have my taxes done in a week or two. It's all complicated this year I suppose since the disability check was cut at the end of last year instead of this year. I wonder if food could be written off as a medical expense? Hehe.

I'll be spending the next few days with my family (minus Ki as he has an intense medical rotation right now) at Disney-world in Orlando. It'll be interesting to see my newest niece for the first time (she's already 3... I'm a bad uncle). Big thanks to Liz for using some of those international frequent flyer miles to help me get there!

Let's see... Goals for now are to eat healthier, get some exercise going, sell some gear, and if I sell enough... Get a purple guitar! Yeah :). Hahaha

Hmmm Muzak is "We've Only Just Begun.". Go go hip Medford airport :)