August 23, 2010 10:15 am |
The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of appointments, tests, work, celebrations, and stress. It’s impossible to sum it all up in a reasonable amount of time, so I’ll just keep it short. No tumors were detectable in the CT scan. The tumor marker in my blood, while rising, is still at a relatively [...]
My doctor called this morning with the results from my most recent blood tests: There is still some cancer in my body. Based on what I’ve read, I expected this to happen. Still, the news left me almost speechless. I was hoping to be able to celebrate victory over cancer and my birthday at the [...]
August 3, 2010 12:10 pm |
I got off the phone with my doctor a few minutes ago. The tissue he removed did contain cancer. The good news is that there were no masses detected in my chest x-ray. The cough that’s taking forever to go away does seem to be due to the bronchitis I had a couple months ago. [...]
I never expected that this would be the topic I write about when I start blogging again. But people are starting to ask, so I should talk about it. At about 1 PM today, I’m going to have surgery on what is very likely testicular cancer. There is no reason to believe yet that it [...]
Thank you for the delicious beer.
This is August’s first time on the beach (while awake).
February 22, 2010 3:00 pm |
August is interacting with his environment more each day. Yesterday, he sat up in his bath to play with the rubber duckies.
January 9, 2010 8:47 pm |
It was a beautiful sunset. I’m bummed that I didn’t have the DSLR with me.
January 2, 2010 4:19 pm |
August hasn’t been sleeping well the last few days. It took a very long walk to get him to fall asleep this afternoon.