Insurance Cards and Sleet

The insurance finally issued my updated card with some new numbers etc.  I'm guessing this would be why the clinic up in Portland has had a difficult time getting my appointments approved.  I guess in most situations where people go on Cobra, they're not waiting for PET scan appointments and such to be okayed...

I'll be calling tomorrow to update the oncology clinic with my new digits so we can confirm the coming Portland hospital trip.  Things in general are hopefully close to being normalized again in terms of knowing that all my t's are crossed and i's are ... well dumb i's... you need a dot if they're lower case and none if they're grown up and stuff.  (Okay a so-so attempt at humor... likely not a solid one as I just saw John Carter of Mars which was a C + movie and has perhaps left a lingering creative gulch in my funny bone.)

Probably a good sign of my expectations for continued health is my appointment to have Direct TV installed tomorrow.  You have to make a contract to get the good deal, and I guess I was putting off switching from cable to the less expensive, yet equally satisfying service, was a lingering doubt that I would need it for the full 2 years.  Frankly that's a pretty lame thing to realize, but it's also not such a surprise.  This entire last year has pretty much forced me to think, "okay, what's next" after each step has been taken.  So while I have been stedfast in not allowing prolonged doubt as to my survival, it's been something that is somewhat an inevitable specter.

The timing for that paragraph is nice as the sleet and snow bits that were falling have just stopped and the blue sky is pouring into the 2 skylights here in my music room.  So while I'm not taking things for granted, I do feel fairly optimistic about my current direction.  Maybe I will get a kitty with my next PET scan!

So this is a short and sweet update - no real drama, and general optimism would be the current state of things.  I'll post a shot from my trip back in 2005 to China from the Great Wall (where I stupidly took the wrong way back to the parking lot and wound up on the opposite side of the mountain from the group... and somehow convinced a man with the narrowest van EVER to drive me to the parking lot, with him not understanding English and me knowing zero Chinese...).  Sadly I appear to have saved the bulk of my photos from that China trip to a location that is no longer within my grasp (meaning I've lost all of the original pics).  That pretty well stinks, but fortunately I still have about 10 shots that I had saved elsewhere to play around with at a later date.

Keep on Truckin' ya'll...