Good News

It is a cold and rainy day here in Minnesota. Not cold enough to snow, not yet, but you can feel it coming.

I just arrived home after a forty minute drive through congested freeways, thinking how much I enjoyed not having to make that commute on a daily basis. I was down at my medical clinic to meet with my oncologist. He had the results of the CT scan that I had done yesterday.

I am not quite normal on the inside, but damn close. For a guy in my situation, you don’t get better news than that. It was a good thing that they weren’t taking pictures of my head.

I will do one more round of the treatment next week, Monday through Thursday, then quit. This is good. I was trying to decide how I would get through turkey day while doing chemo. Not an issue now.

It is amazing what something like this does to one’s outlook. Even though the sky is grey and all is wet, I feel warm and dry. Even the big toe on my left foot feels better, which, given the flare-up of gout that has plagued me for the last three days, is saying something.

This is no guarantee of course. The disease will come back – sometime, but for now, we have scored a small tactical victory. I will gladly take that, for whatever time I have.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming…..