moon phases

Started this before change to "New Blogger", as backup in case of trouble with digiphoto blog "In a Small Dark Room", or rants & links blog "Hello Cruel World" . Useful - at one stage Dark Room was there, but like the astrophysical Dark Matter, we could't see it ... better now, but kept Just In Case.

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There is nothing. There is no God and no universe, there is only empty space, and in it a lost and homeless and wandering and companionless and indestructible Thought. And I am that thought. And God, and the Universe, and Time, and Life, and Death, and Joy and Sorrow and Pain only a grotesque and brutal dream, evolved from the frantic imagination of that same Thought.
Mark Twain (letter to Joseph Twichell after his wife's death)
[me, on a bad day]

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Jumping into Life  
Up! - Jumping into Life
kat.uprush.org/2006/03/i-would-not-call-myself-hedonist.html ... As we are preparing dinner last night, she asks, if you had to give up one sense, which would it be?

Doctor Update

I had thought that yesterday would be a whole series of tests, but all they wanted was a set of (quite uncomfortable) X-rays. From that they could tell that the tumour was quite substantial, and that the nearest lymph node had started to get involved. So they'll definitely have to slice out quite a sizable lump. Now, though, they want a set of other tests — CT scan, radioactive bone scan, biopsy & blood tests — to see if it's spread out to anywhere else, and also to get some cells to see how advanced it is, how malignant. So that will be next week, and the results will go to the surgeon/oncologists. and I have another appointment the week after to hear what they've found, and their ideas for further treatment.

So things are still rather up in the air. Probably operation will come first, then some kind of therapy/ies. According to the surgeon, the recovery from this surgery is usually quicker than the really serious assault on my body that the last operation was. He does say that the recurrence within 5 years is less of a worry than if it were the same type of cancer returning. And it looks like this is from a separate source — though I suppose the biopsy might throw some light on that. Well, we shall see.
[permalink] posted by Mez at 12:08 pm