What's that noise?

Yup, felt the quake here in the CLE area. Strong enough to shake the LCD TV.

The operation to reattach my colon to my rectum failed Tuesday, so I'll have to wear the bag for the rest of my life. If there's ant upside to this, I've sat in the same very uncomfortable chair for hours.

(I really need to update more often...)

I'm the bearer of bad news today but not of losing a job thankfully, but of losing a friend and former (as of early January) station boss in Jerry. He died at 65 years on Monday night due to complications of undiagnosed lung cancer-induced pneumonia. He was admitted to hospital on Friday with the pneumonia. He did better over the weekend, but was back in ICU early Monday where he crashed for the last time latter that day.

He will be cremated with a memorial later this spring.

Been awhile hasn't it? Other than the fact that "The Great Re-Attachment" is pretty much a go for sometime in March, not much of anything important is happening right now...
Other than my right buttock and knee giving me grief right now as they usually do once in awhile. That my medical schedule, and my work hours have cut into my creative endeavors this past year as well.

Will be uploading pix when I get a chance.

Hey, its me again.

Due to a mix up with my chemo order, I didn't have my session yesterday, but today. It seems the receptionist that over works for my oncologist is off for this week, and my orders didn't get faxed until last night. For a while I thought it was something wrong on my side, like some obscure paper work that didn't get done or something, but that wasn't the case. For the first time in weeks, I didn't feel like taking a nap while in the chair*, I guess those car/bike fab shows on Discovery was that interesting enough!



* The chairs at chemo are not Lay-Z-Boy issue. In fact, they are the most uncomfy recliners ever made.

Had a visit in Dr. V's office after chemo today, she still wants to reverse the ostomy. That will be predicated on when my next CAT is done so she herself can get the results, and to give Dr. M s heads up on to cut off the Avastin for 5~6 week beforehand of procedure. While in there she will take care of the hernia that I didn't know that was there until today... I only felt anything if I sneeze hard enough!

Well received notice from Ohio's department of social services (a.k.a. "Dept of Oblah-dee, Oblah-dah") that my appeal to have another hearing has been denied. Among the usual bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo in the letter, it was claimed that I was a NO-SHOW for the scheduled hearing...

Pukies, pure and simple! I was there a half hour before my appointment, it was my unfamiliarity with the building that made me late by a few minutes, trying to find where to go. In light of this, I'm going to just say "screw 'em", and hope that some day this form of "stay busy, but do nothing-ness" is done away with.

Sheesh, even Commieland countries have/had their own Politburos to deal with!

I survived another triptiphan dose day.

After a two-week hiatus, I'm back to the usual schedule chemo wise.
I had to be changed over to another source of my colostomy bags. Even though in the past I paid out of pocket for my orders, Edgepark won't even do that anymore or they would loose their license to do business through Medicare/Medicaid. I did get another provider, but I'm only allowed to order one box at a time due to Medicaid restrictions.