I’ll Eat To That
Travel diaries, food porn, random rants, and various musings about stuff that I feel like musing about.
Blog Posts
Ambivalent Indecision
At work, I have always been known as the "get it done guy." At home, I am a master of sitting on my ass and doing nothing. How do I reconcile these two seemingly dichotomous personality traits? Well, it's like this. I can embrace the sitting on my ass and doing...
Talking Me Down off the Ledge
Gastro-Guy has been on vacation for the last couple of weeks and just returned to work today to find a somewhat hysterical message from me waiting for him. I'm not really hysterical but anxiety level is creeping steadily upward and I sort of needed a familiar voice...
The Last Steak
The Smokehouse in Burbank, California, July 15th. In attendance: LeeAnn, Chuck, Wes, Nettie, Diana, Steve, Laura, and Steve (different one). Consumed: 7 or 8 pieces of the cheesy garlic bread; onion rings; a cup of the French onion soup; a 12 ounce Filet Mignon; a...
It’s All Making Sense Now
I had kind of a bad reaction after I met Dr. Frenchy, which I was chalking up to him not being a teddy bear of a man. Today I met with the oncologist and now a lot of stuff is starting to make sense to me. I realize that my reaction to Dr. Frenchy was not because of...
All the World’s a Stage
Before we go any farther it is important to have a brief digression into the various types, stages, and potential outcomes for esophageal cancer. This will become key soon for reasons that will become obvious. There are two types of esophageal cancer. Squamous...
My Food Bucket List
As mentioned, what I will be able to eat after the surgery will be severely limited. See, my stomach will be partially cut out and then the rest of it will be pulled up to be attached to what's left of the esophagus. This means the stomach looks more like a tube...
Annoying Thing About Cancer #24
The hold music. When one has cancer one needs to schedule a lot of things - doctor's appointments, mainly, but also tests, procedures, referral recommendations... the list goes on and on. And since one must call to schedule most of these things, one is often placed...
Annoying Thing About Cancer #37
Paperwork. There is a lot of paperwork associated with cancer. I'm seeing a lot of new doctors and every one of them has about 6 pages worth of forms to fill out that cover everything from my height and weight to my family's medical history back to the time we came...
Beauty School Dropout
I met with the surgeon today, finally. For the purposes of this discussion we'll call him Dr. Frenchy, partly because he's French and partly because it makes me think of Didi Conn in "Grease." He doesn't remind me of Didi Conn in "Grease" but I think you should...
Ties that Binder
I'm a bit of a control freak. Okay, maybe "bit of a" is a bit of an understatement. Yes, someone apparently gave me OCD for my birthday a few years ago because I'm really big on the whole organization concept. I figured out why about two years ago. My best friend...
Deeper Dives
The Year of Living With Cancer
In 2012, I was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer. To help myself cope with it, I wrote about it. A lot. And yes, the picture of Angela and Jordan will make sense at some point if you read enough.
The Year of Living Differently
After cancer, I decided to try to mix things up and do something different every single day for a year. Did I make it?
50 for 50 by 50
To celebrate, or perhaps to distract myself from, my impending 50th birthday in 2016, I embarked on a project to give $50 to 50 different charities by the time I turned 50.
Gun Violence
A page full of facts to help you be better informed about the issues surrounding gun violence in the United states.