by rickg | Feb 20, 2014 | Differently
Because of my different oncologist, I had to get my PET scan in a new place today – the Roy and Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center in Burbank. It’s significantly nicer than the place in Glendale I had been going to, which had the Liberace lobby and was...
by rickg | Feb 19, 2014 | Differently
I’m a little too broken to do anything too original for my Differently today. For the record, shingles suck. But this pain is transitory and temporary and will get better eventually and I will forget about it and move on and I was thinking about that and how...
by rickg | Feb 18, 2014 | Differently
I’ve never had shingles before. Can’t say as I’m enjoying them much. Painkillers, nerve pain medication, pain relieving patches, steroids, and antiretroviral medication . I’m fairly certain that any post I make for the next few days will...
by rickg | Feb 17, 2014 | Differently
A few weeks ago I boasted that I could name all 50 states in alphabetical order in under 30 seconds. Still true. I used to know is all of the state capitals but that has faded over time to the point where I wasn’t sure if I could get past a dozen or so. Today I...
by rickg | Feb 16, 2014 | Differently
For my Differently today, I have a story I want to tell. I’ve told pieces of it before to various people; some of this is from a book I wrote but then never did anything with. But I’ve never put it together in quite this way. It’s a bit long but I hope you’ll...
by rickg | Feb 15, 2014 | Differently, Random Acts of Kindness
Example #1: I have always wanted to go to the Petersen Automotive Museum here in Los Angeles but the primary thing that has stopped me is that I didn’t want to sit in all the traffic I’d need to sit in to get to its mid-Wilshire location. Example #2: When...
by rickg | Feb 14, 2014 | Differently
One the one hand, Valentine’s Day seems to be engineered to make all of us who don’t have a significant other feel as though we are pathetic loser who will never find true happiness or love and will die alone, surrounded by cats, sitting on our respective...
by rickg | Feb 13, 2014 | Differently
Late in the day I got word that the PET scan had been approved by the insurance company, so now just waiting for scheduling. Now that I’m seeing Dr. Kangaroo instead of Dr. Wile E. Coyote, they are sending me to a different place to get the scan done, which...
by rickg | Feb 12, 2014 | Annoying Things About Cancer, Differently, Random Acts of Kindness
NOTE: this is a long, rambling post that winds up being a little sad. You have been warned. A lot of disparate things happened today that qualify for the Differently pile but they all seemed to be connected, in ways big and small, to cancer. I wish the theme for the...
by rickg | Feb 11, 2014 | Differently, Random Acts of Kindness
Lately I have been obsessed with fruit smoothies – I have one almost every single morning, often from Jamba Juice. Today, I got my medium Razzmatazz, paid for it, and then handed the clerk a $20 bill and one of the ROAK cards. I told her to pay for the drink of...
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