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Sweet Home Chicago Day 2: Battle of Porkinator

We shall call today the day of way too much food. As many of you know, I love food but food, often, doesn’t love me back. It’s all the glorious consequence of having a significant chunk of gastric system removed in order to get rid of cancer and while I am able to eat...

TYOLD Day 27: What’s on TV

Kind of a failure today in a lot of different ways but especially in the Differently department.  The best I could do was try to work through some of the junk that was piled up on my DVR and watch things I had never watched before. The only one worth mentioning is The...

Flawless

Every time I look in the mirror, the scars are a reminder. I have been struggling with them; the scars.  I think they are ugly.  I joke it off by saying that I look like an assistant in a magic act that went horribly awry, but really I feel freakish and disfigured....

Reflective

It’s been an interesting year.  How’s that for understatement? Let’s tally it all up, shall we?  Four surgeries, three endoscopies, three PET scans, 17 days in the hospital (6 of which were in the ICU), ten different doctors, around two dozen...

Would You Look at the Time!

It seems like just yesterday I was complaining about how long I had to wait before I could get my next set of tests – you know, the ones that would (in theory) tell me if I’m living or dying. There’s no way I could wait until June, I thought. That seemed entirely too...