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Oh, Larry The Cable Guy, what you and Billy and John have done to me. I’m at a wedding on Saturday. It was the wedding of a certain local assistant fire chief and his beautiful bride. They’re about my age, and friends of mine, so I accompanied my dad. “Which church is it?” my dad asked me. Continue reading

Well…My life has not been that interesting. I wound up in the hospital Wednesday night, because the doctors thought I was having a mini-stroke. Nothing showed up on the CT scan, but ministrokes don’t always. In any case, they finally gave me Demerol, which is a blessing from God. But then I turned out toContinue reading

Two very important things:Number one, my grandmother is giving me a trip to Hawaii and the Caribbean in October for my birthday/Christmas/master’s degree graduation. As I will be going to Aruba, stay glued to Fox News Channel for breaking updates. Also once I disappear please do not believe anything in the tabloids. Secondly, Danica Patrick isContinue reading

For the time being, Veronica will be fought with medicine. If she gets bigger, then the surgeons will go in and take her out. Stupid Veronica. I have to carry her in my head for the forseeable future. It is something of a bittersweet day. Two people I know are being married today(not toContinue reading

So I have recently began watching Simon Cowell’s latest work of genius. Yes, you know…America’s Got Talent. In truth, I like it a tad better than American Idol, because people do so much more than sing. And they have just some strange people. Michelle L’Amour, who has a degree in finance, but would rather followContinue reading

Still haven’t gotten the cortisol test back. Now we’re talking about radiation, which will cause failure of the pituitary gland within four to five years. Excuse me, but how do you live without a pituitary gland?! And they just look at me sadly, because, of course, I will not live five years anyway. Whatever….I haveContinue reading

I am so excited. I got my stuff from Liberty yesterday and am just waiting for the rest to show up. I love distance learning classes, especially LU’s, because it’s: here’s all the material. You have to have it done by such and such a date, but that’s it. Have fun. I hate deadlines andContinue reading

Veronica is not behaving. I can barely stay awake today…slept from 10 p.m. last night until 1 p.m. this afternoon…and having roused enough energy to do some errands, I will probably be back in bed for the night by 4 p.m.And Veronica made me quit my job…well, my boss very kindly said that she reallyContinue reading

Rachel and I have named the pituitary tumor Veronica. Votes on names for the tumor on my thyroid?Also…if it is Cushing’s, which we’re almost certain it is, I have a fifty-fifty chance of surviving five years. Veronica must die.

And so, we wait. There is good news; the blood test for growth hormone indicates that neither tumor is currently growing. Yet the question of why two tumors, in different locations, remains. There is bad news; one is on the pituitary gland, indicating, perhaps, probably, Cushing’s Disease. The prognosis for that is not wonderful; treatable, but the sideContinue reading