Stuff for Stuff and the Like...maps for the Iraq?

Since my last update the shrinkage of Lymon has seemed to slow down a fair bit, but even with the slower progress, I can say it's smaller than it was when I last posted.  Hopefully this trend will continue and the Imati-blah blah (read Gleevec) will also get the tumors I can't see or feel under control as well.  I'm certainly not in any hurry to feel the ones in my lungs.

In general the side effects continue to mellow.  I'm not feeling quite as tired, and the impending doom of chest fizzing mild heartburn has stopped (crosses fingers to not see that again).  I still haven't started going to the gym yet, but I totally am gonna... like for sure.

And speaking of beauty pageant inspired geography (google Miss Teen South Carolina if you need the reference)... I'm selling off some gear to fund a variety of things such as and the like, personal projects, gas, wild vacations to the border (well the border of Washington State and Oregon - where Portland and my oncology clinic is located), and the inexplicably high price of the gas bill for the house last month... hmph.

such as ... and the like...  (okay I'll stop with the maps for the Iraq reference :)

I'm still waiting to schedule my PET scan for the end of March as the Cobra company hasn't received the payment from the cancer clinic financial councilor (she sent it last Tuesday apparently).  The upside to this is that I don't have to pay for my insurance while on Cobra... just the same copays such as and the like (okay so one last time...).  From what I've seen in forums the copay for real Gleevec can be a lot more than what I'm paying per month to get mine from India, so having the hospital take care of the Cobra cost pretty much makes me a little ahead on that count.

Okay so it's easier for me to just share this one rather than make you hunt for it... and for the record, she was pretty cool about it when she made an appearance on Tosh.0 in her web redemption.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQdhMSEqhfg

So thanks to all for the kind thoughts and supporting words.  I'll continue to focus on progress so I can make a change from fighting this thing to recovering from it.  Here's a shot to enjoy - I took this when my sister Liz was visiting at the end of 2010 at the Oregon coast.