I’ll Eat To That
Travel diaries, food porn, random rants, and various musings about stuff that I feel like musing about.
Blog Posts
What I Want Vs. What I Get
The surgery was three weeks ago today and the question that keeps running through my mind is this: why aren’t I all better yet? I mean, I understand that it was a huge surgery with complications that could’ve killed me and that I spent 6 days in the Intensive Care...
Hey, Where Did That Giant Cheeseburger Come From?
Except for some flashes here and there, pretty much everything during my six day stay in the ICU is lost to the haze of pain and self-administered morphine in which I was enveloped. Apparently people came to visit me and brought me presents but I remember mostly...
Zombies
Presently I am in my second day home and things are going better than they did yesterday. I will spare you the gory details but let’s just say there was stuff coming out of places it shouldn’t have been coming out of and it caused more than a bit of concern. I was...
Lucky Charms
It’s possible that I’m going home today, finally, after 13 very long days in the hospital. If not today, then tomorrow for sure. I’m a lot more mentally with it than I have been, even when I wrote the post on the 26th; that three-paragraph epic took me nearly an hour...
I’ll Still Standing, Ow, Ow, Ow
Hey gang. Yes, it is me, actually updating on my own. I only have the stamina to do a brief update, partly because I’m exhausted and in a not inconsiderable amount of pain, but also because apparently in addition to the chunks of my body they have removed my typing...
Less hardware, more lucidity
Various tubes removed (intentionally this time). Out of ICU and in a regular room. The not-so-spacious and very anti-Vegas Room 1715 to be precise. Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. They're even making him get up and walk around. Steps on that road to...
Oh the life of a Burbank Borg
It seems our favorite multi-tubed Borg Rick was a bit too boisterous on his first night after surgery and may have dislodged his ol' J-tube. So after a day of increasing pain it was back into surgery Sunday night for confirmation of the blowout and a re-seating of the...
Missive from the ICU bed
The ventilator came out this morning and there are various tubes going in and out of Rick's body at the moment. Very Star Trek Borg, thankfully minus the grey pallor. For the moment he just has one thing to say: "Ow."
Update on Rick’s Magical Surgical Tour
Okay. So after a loooong day that started with a two-and-a-half hour delayed surgical start time and close to six-and-a-half hours of actual surgery I'm happy to report that Rick's reconstructive surgery to become Rachel was a success. Happy birthday girl! Oh. Wait. ...
21 Words
This will be my last post before the surgery. I feel as though I should be witty, or wise, or at least pithy but at this point I think the best I can hope for is coherent. I guess what I am really attempting to gain is a little bit of that much longed for...
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.